When engaging in field activity you must ask yourself ‘Am I leading a group or working alone?’, then ‘What are the potential hazards and levels of risk?’, and finally ‘If things go wrong, who will know and what more could I have done?’. Common sense and good judgement are required - if in doubt speak to your supervisor/manager /HoD, as these are the people responsible for sign off.
For staff leading course work with recurrent group field activities, Geography has a form bank in the departmental ‘staff only’ drop box K:\Health_Safety\Field_Activities.
For staff or students leading independent research with either group or sole field activities, current documentation and guidelines are available in the UC H&S Toolkit, under Hazard Management> Field Activity – Group or Sole.
(the documents referred to below are in the UC H&S Toolkit)
Read these:
1. Protocol for University Field Activities: definitions, scope, roles and responsibilities.
2. Field Activity Risk Matrix - Group or Sole: examples that help determine the required documentation for group or individual field activity.
For each field activity
complete the following:
· Field Activity Plan: hazard risk assessment and management, details such as time and location, emergency contacts and response, participant health, safety equipment.
· Leader Health Declaration and Consent: Provides UC with contact details, medical & dietary conditions, fitness to lead.
>>> Having signed off your Field Activity Plan and Leader forms with your HoD (staff) or academic supervisor (students), please email these as attachments to:
>>> geog-field-intentions@canterbury.ac.nz
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· Field Activity Participant Consent: Provides the field activity Leader with participant contact details, medical & dietary conditions, next of kin, H&S skills, and signoff on responsibilities and expectations.
>>> Return to the field activity Leader.
For each field trip
complete the following:
· Checklist-Activity Briefing: per trip time, location and route, known hazards, emergency response plan, list of actual participants.
>>> Whenever you go, please let us know by emailing this as an attachment to:
>>>
geog-field-intentions@canterbury.ac.nz <<<
- John Thyne, Geography
Department Safety Officer, 7/7/2011
http://www.geog.canterbury.ac.nz/safety/Field_Activities_GEOG.*