SAFETY INFO AT CAMP
FIRST AID
TŪRORO
You will need to provide your own First Aid Kit suitable for dealing with outdoor activities. If you are doing the bush walk, we suggest bringing a portable first aid kit to carry on the walk. At camp you will need to assign a First Aid officer to look after your first aid requirements. For any accidents complete an accident report form. At Carey Park these are in the first aid room. Your host will be able to provide them to you. This information helps us to keep a track of incidents, helping us ensure both equipment and facilities will not cause accidents or incidents to camping groups.
ADULTS SUPERVISING ACTIVITIES
KA MĀTAKI/WHAKAHAERE NGĀ PĀKEKE I NGĀ KĒMU
Where adults are supervising activities, it is important that we provide these activities safely. We want the ultimate outcome for the people using the activity to be one of experiencing challenge, risk and fun, along with any EOTC goals for school groups, in order for this to happen our staff will train adults on the activity they will lead for the day. Adults must remain with the same activity for the day for the safety of the participants. Please refer to the activities instruction sheet and RAMS document for the supervisor to people ratios. Supervisors must not use phones whilst supervising. This causes distraction and a lapse in concentration.
ACTIVITIES SUPERVISION INSTRUCTION SHEETS
NGĀ TURE WHAKAHAERE KĒMU
All activities have supervision sheets, both for supervised adult lead and staff instructed activities. These sheets are a valuable resource and give details on effective supervision of the activity along with safety tips and show the level of supervision required. You should use these sheets to ensure you have sufficient adults who are suitable to take part in and supervise the activity.
RISK ANALYSIS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM [RAMS]
WHAKAITI I NGĀ MŌREAREATANGA
Each activity has its own RAMS sheet. RAMS sheets give you information around the risks associated with the activity. They also provide management tools for those risks inherent in each of the activities. We split the risks around our activities between: The Environment, The Equipment, and The People. Also included are the generic risks and hazards associated with outdoor adventure activities. Please take time to familiarise yourself and group members coming to camp. These are a great resource to help you with supervising our activities.
GROUP EVACUATION OFFICER/BUILDING WARDEN
KAIARAHI WHAKAWĀTEA Ā-ROOPU
Between 8:00am to 5:00pm the One Big Adventure staff Building Warden handles the group in the event of an evacuation of the buildings. The group's appointed person should liaise with the Building Warden in the event of an evacuation. The group's appointed person will assume the Building Warden role outside of normal working hours (8:00am to 5:00pm). The rooming list will act as additional information in an evacuation. Please show on the rooming list, any persons within your group who may require help to leave the building in the event of an evacuation (examples may be people who are hard of hearing, partially sighted, physically or mentally disabled/imparted or infirm). In the event of an evacuation, the Building Warden will use this list to establish that all people are removed from the buildings. The Building Warden will pass this information onto the Fire Department upon their arrival. It will also help the Fire Department in the event of them having to rescue anyone, particularly those who require help, by giving the Fire Department a location for the person or persons who may require help.
SAFETY
HAUMARU
Our activities undergo an annual audit inspection to ensure that we provide them in the safest possible manner, meeting the highest standards of safety and professionalism. Our certifying body is OutdoorsMark. They are a national outdoor safety auditor tailored for the New Zealand outdoors community. This certification ensures independent expert assessment of our equipment and activities management. Where required, we are audited and registered with WorkSafeNZ under the Adventure Activity Regulations 2016. We provide a safe, challenging and fun facility for all of your activities. You will receive all necessary training, highly maintained equipment, up-to-date RAMS, onsite training and pre-camp planning. All you need to do is turn up and supervise activities. We provide a description of each activity and staff will be available to train adults for all activities each morning. In addition, we provide activity and first aid training to staff. We are committed to providing your group with a safe and enjoyable experience.
STAFF TRAINING AND ONGOING COMPLIANCE
WHAKAPAKARI PŪKENGA
We train activity staff in the supervision and instruction of our activities. We base some of this training in house, we provide some by independent third party training providers. All training meets industry standards to ensure a safe delivery of activities to you, our guests. Activity and hosting staff all hold recognised first aid qualifications and all staff working at camp are police vetted to ensure your safety. All kitchen staff have undergone training in good kitchen practice and are basic hygiene certified. All staff working at camp “core workers” (i.e. activity staff) as well as “non-core workers” (i.e. administration, kitchen and maintenance staff) are subject to Children’s Worker safety checking, as specified under the Vulnerable Children Act 2014. Volunteers who work at camp are not subject to Children’s Worker safety checking, however they are subject to reference and police vetting checks where volunteers are over seventeen years old. Professional engineers and industry accredited auditors specific to the type of equipment being audited fully maintain and annually inspect our activity equipment, to ensure that it meets industry safety standards. WorkSafeNZ registers us as a provider of adventure activities under the Adventure Activities Regulations 2016. We are also an OSCAR approved provider undergoing regular audits to the relevant legislation.
EVACUATION
WHAKAWĀTEA
We explain emergency procedures for evacuating the buildings to the group as part of the welcome talk. All of our facilities have emergency evacuation alarms installed.
CONTACT
Office hours
Monday - Friday, 9 - 4
(09) 837 0494
info@onebigadventure.org.nz