Elements and Performance Criteria
- Define the outdoor adventure experience and its link to risk.
- Undertake research to identify the value of using and or experiencing risk as part of the adventure experience.
- Identify conditions that contribute to an adventure experience.
- Identify the nature and or types of riskas they relate to outdoor adventure experiences.
- Identify factors that affect an individual's perception of risk in an outdoor activity and how an individual's perception of risk and of their own competence can change in a specified situation.
- Analyse the interplay between different levels of risk and competence and all possible combinations as part of the adventure experience paradigm.
- Determine the implications of these interactions for outdoor leaders in terms of providing safe, but challenging outdoor experiences.
- Identify and access tools to assist in the analysis of factors which contribute to accidents in outdoor adventure activities.
- Establish the context of the risk management.
- Select an outdoor activity that reflects program objectives and a suitable level of challenge for participants, with respect to the relationship between risk and competence.
- Identify and assess the competence of participants for the selected outdoor activity.
- Determine the acceptable degree of difficulty and risk, based on the activity aims and objectives, the conditions and the competence of the clients and leaders.
- Access and analyse the organisational risk management plan for the outdoor activity.
- Identify risk management strategies for the outdoor activity according to organisational policies and procedures.
- Apply risk management during an outdoor activity.
- Utilise a system that traces the relationship between each risk, its contributing hazards, the likelihood of the risk eventuating and the resultant consequence(s) in order to determine whether the level of risk is acceptable.
- Advise participants of risk factors requiring activity modification.
- Monitor the activity and adjust if risk to participants becomes unacceptable according to organisational policies and procedures.
- Evaluate risk management of the outdoor activity.
- Evaluate the risk management plan for the activity following the conduct of the activity to determine aspects requiring modification.
- Develop a strategy to address issues raised as a result of the evaluation.
- Evaluate own performance as a risk manager and obtain feedback in order to identify perceived strengths and areas for improvement.