Risk Management in the Outdoors A Whole-of-Organisation Approach for Education, Sport and Recreation
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 An introduction to risk, adventure and risk management
- 2 Organisational sustainability and risk management
- 3 The legal context for outdoor activities and programs
- 4 The organisational context of risk management
- 5 The real physical risks: putting it into perspective
- 6 Program design and activity selection
- 7 Program evaluation
- 8 Risk communication
- 9 Technology, risk and outdoor programming
- 10 Severe weather
- 11 Learning from injury surveillance and incident analysis
- Appendix Examples of risk analyses
- Index
3 - The legal context for outdoor activities and programs
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 An introduction to risk, adventure and risk management
- 2 Organisational sustainability and risk management
- 3 The legal context for outdoor activities and programs
- 4 The organisational context of risk management
- 5 The real physical risks: putting it into perspective
- 6 Program design and activity selection
- 7 Program evaluation
- 8 Risk communication
- 9 Technology, risk and outdoor programming
- 10 Severe weather
- 11 Learning from injury surveillance and incident analysis
- Appendix Examples of risk analyses
- Index
Summary
Many forms of outdoor recreation involve a risk of physical injury. In some cases, while the risk of injury is small, the consequences may be severe.… A general prohibition in a given locality may be a gross and inappropriate interference with the public's right to enjoy healthy recreation.
Chief Justice Gleeson, Vairy v Wyong Shire Council, (2005) 223 CLR 422Focus questions
What are the key legal areas that an organisation conducting outdoor activities needs to consider?
What can constitute a workplace in the context of outdoor activities?
Are an employer's obligations to an employee different to the obligations to a visitor to the workplace?
What would be considered ‘reasonable’ under the law?
Can duty of care be reduced?
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- Risk Management in the OutdoorsA Whole-of-Organisation Approach for Education, Sport and Recreation, pp. 43 - 68Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011