| Effective Term: | 2025/05 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Education, Arts & Community |
| Unit Title: | Managing Risk in Outdoor and Adventure Sport Environments |
| Unit ID: | OEEDU3801 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | Nil |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | (OEEDU3800) |
| ASCED: | 079999 |
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| Brief description of the Unit |
In this unit, students develop and apply knowledge of best practice safety and risk management approaches for outdoor environmental education and adventure sport experiences, including a strict aversion to fatalities approach. Students will learn about and apply/use legislation, regulations, standards, codes, professional learning, and safety equipment, including communications and navigation equipment, related to safety and risk management that apply to outdoor environmental education and adventure sport experiences. Students will enhance and consolidate their outdoor environmental education and adventure sport safety and risk management knowledge and skills through the creation of safety plans, delivery of presentations, critical reflections, and fieldwork experiences. |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: No |
| Supplementary Assessment:Yes |
| Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment |
| Course Level: |
| Level of Unit in Course | AQF Level(s) of Course | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | | Introductory | | | | | | | | Intermediate | | | | | | | | Advanced | | |  | | | |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
| Knowledge: |
| K1. | Explore legislation, regulations, policies, standards, codes, and professional learning for safe and appropriate outdoor environmental education experiences in Australia. |
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| K2. | Recognise approaches to risk management for education in outdoor and adventure sport environments, including a strict aversion to fatalities approach. |
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| K3. | Understand equipment used as part of safety and risk management in outdoor environmental and adventure sport experiences, including communication and navigation equipment. |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Interpret relevant legislation, regulations, policies, standards, and codes to ensure compliance and safety of outdoor environmental education and adventure sport experiences. |
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| S2. | Interpret and apply different approaches to risk management planning for outdoor environmental and adventure sport experiences, including a strict aversion to fatalities approach. |
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| S3. | Demonstrate understanding of scope and operation of safety equipment, including communication and navigation equipment. |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Develop documentation and plans for safe and appropriate outdoor environmental education experiences that comply with relevant legislation, regulations, policies, standards, codes, and include a strict aversion to fatalities approach, |
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| A2. | Demonstrate understanding of safety and risk management for education in outdoor environments, including a strict aversion to fatalities approach, through presentations and reflections. |
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| A3. | Demonstrate and reflect upon safe and appropriate leadership and risk management practices in outdoor environmental education experiences, including the usage of safety equipment. |
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| Unit Content: |
Unit content may include:
• Risk and safety management
• Strict aversion to fatalities including outdoor education fatality case studies
• Legislation, regulations, policies, standards, codes, and professional learning related to safety in outdoor environmental education
• Outdoor safety equipment including communications and navigation equipment |
| Graduate Attributes: |
| Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FEDTASKS (Transferable Attributes Skills and Knowledge) provide a targeted focus on five key transferable Attributes, Skills, and Knowledge that are be embedded within curriculum, developed gradually towards successful measures and interlinked with cross-discipline and Co-operative Learning opportunities. One or more FEDTASK, transferable Attributes, Skills or Knowledge must be evident in the specified learning outcomes and assessment for each FedUni Unit, and all must be directly assessed in each Course.
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| FED TASK and descriptor | Development and acquisition of FEDTASKS in the Unit | | Level | FEDTASK 1
Interpersonal | Students will demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate, inter-act and work with others both individually and in groups. Students will be required to display skills in-person and/or online in: • Using effective verbal and non-verbal communication • Listening for meaning and influencing via active listening • Showing empathy for others • Negotiating and demonstrating conflict resolution skills • Working respectfully in cross-cultural and diverse teams. | Level 3 - Student works independently with limited guidance or works within self-determined guidelines appropriate to context | FEDTASK 2
Leadership | Students will demonstrate the ability to apply professional skills and behaviours in leading others. Students will be required to display skills in: • Creating a collegial environment • Showing self -awareness and the ability to self-reflect • Inspiring and convincing others • Making informed decisions • Displaying initiative | Level 3 - Student works independently with limited guidance or works within self-determined guidelines appropriate to context | FEDTASK 3
Critical Thinking and Creativity | Students will demonstrate an ability to work in complexity and ambiguity using the imagination to create new ideas. Students will be required to display skills in: • Reflecting critically • Evaluating ideas, concepts and information • Considering alternative perspectives to refine ideas • Challenging conventional thinking to clarify concepts • Forming creative solutions in problem solving. | Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines | FEDTASK 4
Digital Literacy | Students will demonstrate the ability to work fluently across a range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve a range of tasks. Students will be required to display skills in: • Finding, evaluating, managing, curating, organising and sharing digital information • Collating, managing, accessing and using digital data securely • Receiving and responding to messages in a range of digital media • Contributing actively to digital teams and working groups • Participating in and benefiting from digital learning opportunities. | Level 3 - Student works independently with limited guidance or works within self-determined guidelines appropriate to context | FEDTASK 5
Sustainable and Ethical Mindset | Students will demonstrate the ability to consider and assess the consequences and impact of ideas and actions in enacting ethical and sustainable decisions. Students will be required to display skills in: • Making informed judgments that consider the impact of devising solutions in global economic environmental and societal contexts • Committing to social responsibility as a professional and a citizen • Evaluating ethical, socially responsible and/or sustainable challenges and generating and articulating responses • Embracing lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning to be open to diverse others • Implementing required actions to foster sustainability in their professional and personal life. | Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines |
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| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | | 1. | K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, S3, A1, A3 | Outdoor Environments Safety Plan | Plan | 40-60% | | 2. | K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, S3, A2, A3 | Outdoor Education Fatality Case Study Presentation and Reflection | Presentation and Reflection | 40-60% | | 3. | K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, S3, A2, A3 | Fieldwork Hurdle | Hurdle | S/U | | 4. | K3, S3, A3 | Completion of First Aid Certificate | Hurdle | S/N |
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