The Field Operations Safety Manual: the guiding document from UC with recommendations on necessary planning steps and trainings to take before conducting any fieldwork.
A Guide to Preventing Sexual Violence and Harassment in Field Placements: provided by UC Berkeley's PATH to Care Center specifically to help graduate students prevent sexual assault, violence, and harassment.
Code of Conduct for Ethical Fieldwork: This guide was developed by the University of Oxford to provide "principles and questions to help researchers improve equity in their fieldwork." This document can assist in planning for ethical fieldwork and reflecting after you return from the field.
Developing a Field Safety Program: This workbook provides activities that teach participants to build a field safety program in their organization. In addition, there are very useful resources included on risk assessment.
Tips and Advice for Tropical Rainforest Fieldwork: This document from Toby Marthews (Oxford) provides basic advice for planning fieldwork in tropical rainforests and safety considerations that are unique to that environment. He also lists recommended field skills and safety courses to consider taking prior to any fieldwork.
GAR Risk Calculation Worksheet: Developed by the Scientific Boating Safety Associating, the Green-Amber-Red Risk Assessment System is a tool that allows for field teams to assess risks as a group and set hard No Go criteria. This document is used in planning prior to fieldwork as well as in active incidents or risky situations.
Report of the Workshop to Promote Safety in Field Sciences: Created by the Desert Studies Center and Consortium for Ocean Leaderhsip, this report provides recommendations on culture, accountability, policy development, and reporting in fieldwork. It also includes recommended trainings, DEIJ considerations, and a pre-expedition checklist.
Field Safety! an e-zine by & for trans & queer scientists: This zine was developed by the Trans & Gender Non-conforming Fieldwork Alliance to assist queer scientists in setting up fieldwork in new environments and protecting themselves from queer and trans specific identity based risks.
Beyond reporting: proactive strategies for scientific fieldwork (Cronin et al., 2024)
Carrying the Moral Burden of Safe Fieldwork (Wong Blonder, 2022)
How well-intentioned white male physicists maintain ignorance of inequity and justify inaction (Dancy & Hodari, 2023)
Safeguarding research staff "in the field": a blind spot in ethics guidelines (Kaplan et al., 2022)
Supporting graduate field leadership through community-sourced advice, action, and policy (Hayes et al., 2022)
Human and Organizational Performance (HOP): another way to think about safety (SAIF)
Critically Assessing Undergraduate Field Experiences: Understanding Conceptualizations and Opportunities for Building Inclusive Programs (Morales & Reano, 2023)
Best Practices to Promote Field Science Safety (Yarincik et al., 2023)
Deficits in Accessibility across Field Research Stations for Scientists with Disabilities and/or Chronic Illness, and Proposed Solutions (Rudzki & Kohl, 2023)
Fieldwork and LGBTQ+ Identities: Queering the Outdoors (Kamran & Jennings, 2023)
Remaining Safe Conducting Field Work While Black (FWB), and Tips for PIs, Universites, and Employers of Black Individuals (Troutman, 2023)
Beyond a Vision for The Future: Tangible Steps To Engage Diverse Participants in Inclusibe Field Experiences (Verble et al., 2023)
Ethical considerations when conservation research involves people (Brittain et al., 2020)
A guide for developing a field research safety manual that explicitly considers risks for marginalized identities in the sciences (Rudzki et al., 2022)
A set of principles and practical suggestions for equitable fieldwork in biology (Ramírez-Castañeda et al., 2022)
From Safety-I to Safety-II: A White Paper (Hollnagel et al., 2015)