Mounted search and rescue

["philip easley" <easleyranch@foothill.net>]

Always keep in mind, when carrying passengers on a horse that are being
rescued or a part of the general public and you put a helmet that is not
approved for horseback riding, you have this evil thing lurking around you
called vicarious liability.  If you know in advance that you will need a
riding helmet to put on someone that will be riding.  Why not buy a helmet
that is approved for horseback riding.  If you put a bicycle, low angle, or
swift water rescue helmet that was set aside to be used on someone that is
riding a horse that you are responsible for and they are injured, what do
you think the attorneys are going to look at when you could have obtained a
riding helmet that is approved for horseback riding and designed to protect
your scull from the type of impact you receive when hitting the ground from
seven to ten feet off the ground.  Even if the helmet you used did its job
well, they will sue you for not using proper equipment when you reasonably
could have done so and had unnecessarily placed them in danger.  It is just
something we need to think about when obtaining our equipment in advance.
If the proper equipment that is approved for horseback riding could have
been obtained instead of something else in advance, why not get the proper
equipment?
Philip Easley...............
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jorene Downs" <Jorene@CEOates.com>
To: "Mounted search and rescue" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 7:54 PM
Subject: [MSAR] Riding helmet / Western Hardhat Questions Not for
HorsebackRiding


> Few in MSAR are trained or equipped for technical rescue, but in a pinch
the
> helmet used in technical rescue is very similar to the riding helmet and
> could be used. Having a 2nd helmet along also provides a spare to put on
the
> head of a passenger you're transporting on an extra saddled horse.
>
> ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
> Jorene Downs
> Tulare SAR - Hasty Team ICP Team
> www.ceoates.com/sar
> Tulare-Kings CERT
> www.tk-cert.org
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "philip easley" <easleyranch@foothill.net>
> > If you are going to wear a hardhat while riding a horse.  There should
be
> > no
> > need to even consider a hardhat that is not approved for horseback
riding.
> > Philip Easley
> > Nevada County Sheriff's SAR Inc...
>
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Raskin, Larry" <Lawrence.Raskin@jhuapl.edu>
> >> I sent a request for clarification direct to Outlaw.  As you can read
> >> below, "These hats are not approved for horse-back riding".  My opinion
> >> - You are safer in a straw hat then in these if you fall or are thrown
> >> from your mount.
> >>
> >> End of discussion.
> >>
> >> Larry Raskin
> >> TROT-SAR
> [...]
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