Excursion Risk Analysis

Property Planning Competition

Location: / ‘Ellerslie’ Guyra NSW / Date: / 9/03/16
Item / Job Step / Potential dangers and incidents / Risk Rating / Controls to prevent incidents
What you are going to do to make the job as safe as reasonably possible / Persons who will ensure this happens
1 / Communications with staff / Participant gets lost/Accident/Other unforeseen event / L /
  • Give a safety brief to participants at the beginning of the activity.
  • Advise administration staff of departure and arrival times.
  • Ensure at least one staff member has relevant first aid certification.
  • Carry a mobile phone, map and first aid kit.
  • Ensure mobile phones are charged before departure.
  • Students are to seek permission from their supervising teacher before leaving the group (including toilet breaks).
/ Teaching staff
2 / Weather conditions / Exposure to sun, wind and/or rain / M /
  • Ensure participants are correctly attired (i.e. with a hat, long-sleeved shirt, or a jacket if it is cold or rainy), and include such needs on the excursion consent form.
  • Have sunscreen and water available for participants, and include such needs on the excursion consent form.
/ Teaching staff
3 / Soil Pits / Participant falls into pit / M /
  • Students are not permitted to enter the soil pits.
/ Northern Tablelands Local Land Services staff
4 / Fences / Injury from barbed wire and other sharp edges / M /
  • Students are to use gates when moving from one paddock to the next.
  • Climbing through fences should only be undertaken at the permission of the landholder in the presence of Northern Tablelands Local Land Services staff.
/ Teaching staff
Northern Tablelands Local Land Services staff
5 / Exposed bodies of water / Participant falls into water / M /
  • Ensure students are aware they are not to purposely enter a body of water.
  • Witnesses to any incidents are to report to the nearest Northern Tablelands Local Land Services representative immediately.
/ Northern Tablelands Local Land Services staff
6 / Dangerous fauna / Snakes and other wildlife / M /
  • Warn children to watch where they walk. If a snake is sighted, they are to stop walking and inform a teacher or Northern Tablelands Local Land Services staff member.
/ Teaching Staff
Northern Tablelands Local Land Services staff
7 / Medical Conditions / Allergic reaction, collapse or other response occurring as a result of not taking medication / L /
  • Teachers are to plan for any medical conditions within their student groups, and are to report such conditions to the Northern Tablelands Local Land Services event organisers.
  • Teachers are to make request for any specialised equipment / facilities prior to the field day.
/ Teaching staff

Reviewed by: ______

Principal/Executive

______/______/______

Signature Date

Risk Assessment Rating

E Extreme risk; immediate action required

H High risk; senior management attention needed

MModerate risk; management responsibility must be specified

L Low risk; manage by routine procedures

Please bring the signed forms along to the field day.

Alternatively, please mail / email back to:

Northern Tablelands Local Land Services

Attention: Kim Deans

PO Box 411 Inverell NSW 2360

kim.deans@Local Land Services.nsw.gov.au

Fax 02 6720 8398

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