Outdoor Education Advisers' Panel

Health & Safety Executive to have created a form of words which, in draft form below, help meet the needs of the OEAP.

Health & Safety Executive have created a form of words which, in draft form below,which help to meet our needs.

PRINCIPLES OF SENSIBLE RISK MANAGEMENT

1. Sensible risk management IS about:

o Ensuring that workers and citizens are properly protected

o Providing overall benefit to society by balancing benefits and risks,

with a focus on controlling real risks - either those which arise most

often or those with the most serious consequences

o Enabling innovation and learning not stifling them

o Ensuring that those who create risks manage them responsibly and

understand that failure to manage serious risks responsibly is likely to

lead to robust action

o Enabling individuals to understand that as well as the right to

protection, they also have to exercise responsibility

2. Sensible risk management IS NOT about:

o Creating a totally risk free society

o Generating useless paperwork mountains

o Scaring people by exaggerating or publicising trivial risks

o Stopping important recreational and learning activities for

individuals where the risks are managed

We congratulate them on their brevity, their substance and their .pdf document/presentation below. In which they try to explained Sensible Risk Assessement! :

http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/speeches/tbrospacongress.pdf