Platform Overview
Field Risk OS™ is an operational workflow, logistics, and documentation tool for organizations that run backcountry expeditions. It is the central platform where outdoor program managers and field staff can plan trips, complete pre- and post-trip briefings, design their season schedule, log incident reports and field communications, and organize staff and participant information. One platform where all of this data lives and connects to drive operational efficiency and situational awareness.
Core Features
Program Dashboard
The dashboard surfaces the right information at the right time. See your upcoming and in-the-field trips, which trips need to be briefed or debriefed, and the next day's operational cadence. Log incidents and comms directly from the dashboard.
Trip Templates
Trip Templates contain details like routes, hazards, certification requirements, permit information, and more. The place for your team's trip-specific institutional knowledge. Build a trip template once, run it all season (and beyond).
Robust Incident Reporting
Incident reports based on industry standards, connected to the trip data already in the platform. Incident data is surfaced so patterns can be recognized, and reports don't end up in a folder no one opens.
People and Certifications
Staff and participant profiles in one directory. Every certification with its expiration date. Trip assignments flag any gap before a trip is locked.
Pre-Trip Briefings
Pre-departure briefings draw on every piece of trip data. Once submitted, the briefing record is frozen and retained, an immutable operational snapshot.
Departure Checklists
A checklist to verify the trip has the gear and people it needs to depart.
Communication Logs
Log communications from your leaders in the field. These logs are structured and easy to use, and can be attached to specific trips and incidents.
Field Risk OS™ Mobile
Incidents, near-misses, and field communications can be logged quickly through a phone-optimized mobile interface.
Post-Trip Debriefs
Structured debriefs after a trip returns from the field. Lessons carry forward instead of getting lost in the post-season shuffle.
Land Use and Agency Reporting
The platform calculates land usage as a byproduct of the documentation you’re already doing. Each day in a trip’s itinerary carries land manager information and participant data. Permit allocations are tracked by season and land unit. Your Usage Dashboard surfaces total participant-days, staff-days, usage by land unit, permit utilization percentages, and more. Complete your Forest Service, BLM, and NPS reporting more quickly with system exports.
The Trip Lifecycle
Records are created as part of the workflow, not an extra step.
A note on risk management and Field Risk OS™
Documentation on its own is not risk management.
Risk management at its core is driven by people doing the work: their training, their judgment, their decisions in the field, and the culture of the organizations that support them. Field Risk OS can influence your program’s risk management through organized documentation, not replace the judgment, training, knowledge, or experience of the people doing the work.
What good operational systems do is reduce the noise around the signal, so people have more of themselves to bring to the most important work.
Who Field Risk OS™ is built for
Summer camps with expedition programs
Camps running multi-day backcountry trips.
Outdoor education organizations
Field schools, semester programs, course-based outdoor education.
University and school outdoor programs
Wilderness orientation trips, outdoor education degrees, university backcountry trips, outdoor experience programs.
Guide services
Commercial outfitters running multi-day expeditions.
Common questions
What is Field Risk OS™?
Who is Field Risk OS™ built for?
Is Field Risk OS™ a safety app?
Do we have to use your operating procedures?
Does Field Risk OS™ report on land-manager permits and exposure?
How do we get started?
George Bull
Founder
Field Risk Systems™ LLC
I’m George, and I’m building Field Risk OS™. From coordinating Antarctic deep field operations, to managing a youth backpacking program in Wyoming, and guiding commercial expeditions in remote Alaska, I’ve spent years running trips on the same patchwork of spreadsheets, paper forms, and institutional knowledge you’re using today. This is the tool I’ve always wished I had.
Onboarding design partners now. If your program runs multi-day expeditions, let’s talk.
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