Demonstrated knowledge required to complete the tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit:
- requirements under the local state or territory work health and safety law for:
- organisational and worker responsibility to ensure safety of self, other workers and other people in the workplace
- when, where and how hazards must be identified
- when, where and how risk assessments must be conducted
- consultation in the hazard identification and risk assessment process
- record keeping
- for outdoor recreation organisations:
- what constitutes the workplace including environments where activities occur
- what constitutes a worker including paid and volunteer workers
- what constitutes other people present in the workplace including participants and spectators
- organisational work health and safety procedures for:
- identifying hazards and assessing risks
- assessing risks associated with participants
- a range of methods that can be used to identify hazards for recreational activities to include:
- inspecting the activity site or venue and all equipment used for the activity, and completing safety checklists
- gathering and evaluating weather and environmental information including terrain when relevant
- identifying participant characteristics and level of recreational skill
- reviewing accidents and near miss incidents
- evaluating the complexity of activities
- features of commonly used risk assessment methods which can include:
- identifying potential injuries, illness and consequences
- determining the exposure
- estimating probability
- determining overall risk level
- features of commonly used methods for controlling risks which can include:
- substituting systems or equipment with something safer
- isolating the hazard
- introducing engineering or administrative or procedural controls
- using personal protective equipment
- implementing combined controlled measures to minimise risks
- factors that affect the development and use of risk management strategies to manage potential participant responses and behaviour:
- participant characteristics:
- age, size and weight
- current experience in the recreational activity and skill level
- fitness level and physical capabilities
- injuries and medical conditions
- emotional, behavioural and intellectual ability or disability
- reasons why people engage in outdoor activities that involve risk
- participant perceptions of own competence and risk from low to high and how this can be a match or mismatch to actual competence and risk
- how optimal arousal and flow state during recreational activities can affect how personal risk is managed
- risk management strategies for potential participant responses and behaviour:
- setting ground rules
- role modelling safe behaviours
- closely monitoring, supervising and correcting behaviour of confident and influential participants
- closely monitoring, supervising less confident participants
- removing participants from activities
- postponing, modifying or ceasing activities
- specific to the particular type of outdoor recreation activity:
- industry association safety standards or codes or practice
- safety standards or codes of practice issued by national, state or territory work health and safety authorities
- format, inclusions and use of templates to:
- identify and record hazards
- identify and record safety issues associated with potential participant behaviour
- assess and record associated risks and control methods.