Abstract
Structural reform of safety regulation for led outdoor activities: the next step
Proceedings of the 8th International Outdoor Education Research Conference, p.37
International Outdoor Education Research Conference, 8th (Sunshine Coast, Australia, 19-Nov-2018–23-Nov-2018)
2018
Abstract
Efforts to influence safety management in led outdoor activities in Victoria have been undertaken by government and non-government agencies for decades. The advent of the Adventure Activity Standards in the early 2000s, the reform of the Education Department's safety guidelines in the early 2010s, and the more recent emergence of ATAP Camp and Adventure Activity accreditation have been notable milestones. While the resulting mix of standards, guidelines, accreditation and licensing mechanisms may have a positive effect on safety management, when viewed as a whole system they lack coherence. The resulting potential for confusion can have negative impacts for outdoor education practice at the delivery, planning, and management levels. A set of studies undertaken in 2017 used human factors and systems-theoretic methods to analyse the structural capacity for efficiency and effectiveness of Victoria's broad regulatory environment for led outdoor activity safety. Interviews with a diverse set of activity providers, including OE teachers, informed and was combined with a document search to construct a model of the functional structure of the whole regulatory system. This model then formed the basis of a workshop where providers and representatives of all the main regulatory instruments engaged in a facilitated process to generate design concepts to support structural reform. This presentation will share the findings of these studies and discuss implications for future reform of safety regulation both in Australia and around the world, and how such reforms may influence OE practice.
Details
- Title
- Structural reform of safety regulation for led outdoor activities: the next step
- Authors
- Anthony W Carden (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
- Publication details
- Proceedings of the 8th International Outdoor Education Research Conference, p.37
- Conference details
- International Outdoor Education Research Conference, 8th (Sunshine Coast, Australia, 19-Nov-2018–23-Nov-2018)
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- Date published
- 2018
- Organisation Unit
- Centre for Human Factors and Systems Science; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450792802621
- Output Type
- Abstract
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