
Risk Assessment Matrix Stubbers Adventure Centre 2013
Last updated 29/1/13 AW Annex A page A 13
LAND BASED
ACTIVITY / HAZARD WORST
CASE LOSS
PRESENT CONTROL METHODS LIKELIHOOD RISK
ALL TERRAIN BOARDING
1. Head injury Major injury Wear a helmet
Possible Mod
2. Broken limbs, twisted ankles Major injury Instructor to match track to competence of rider, track to be checked for
obstructions prior to descent.
Novice riders to use loose bindings.
Possible Mod
3. Friction burns Minor injury Wear long sleeves and trousers. Wear knee and elbow pads.
Possible Insig
4. Collision Major injury Use of safety tracks for ascending hill. Risk disclosure.
Possible Mod
ARCHERY
1. Hit by arrow Fatality Safety procedures and risk disclosure briefed to GNAS guidelines. Access points
to firing range locked / secured with the following safety precautions in place:
a. Permanent warning signs on East Hill
b. Access to Archery field from road secured with rails and warning sign in
place.
c. Red Flag flying and visible at top of flag pole
Instructor to ensure that loaded and drawn bows point only at target.
A range is “foul” when:
A person, animal or vehicle strays onto the range
A person or animal is moving in such a way that they are in imminent
danger of straying onto the range
While collecting arrows participants step or are about to step out of the
defined safe area for their range.
When a range is foul both instructors have the responsibility to call “Fast”. At
least 3 blasts must be blown on a whistle to alert all archers on both ranges.
Shooting may only continue when the risk has passed, the range is clear AND the
decision to restart is agreed by BOTH instructors.
Remote Mod
2. Inadvertent contact with arrow in
ground or target
Major injury Safety procedures and risk disclosure in brief. Possible Mod
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