Manage health and safety in a tourism context/Activities/Health & Safety

"Climbing" At Your Risk

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Objectives

US 18365, Version 1, Level 4, Credit 4 Manage Health & Safety in a tourism context - Element 2 PC 2.2, Element 3 Assessment

Activity

Students will reflect upon the roles and responsibilites of a tour guide while identifying the cost of an accident to their organisation, the client and to themselves as the employee. Establishing actions to eliminate or minimise identified hazards and risks.

Task 1

Accidents can have wide repercussions for everyone

Read through the following scenarios and describe the short term and long term costs which may occur from the incident

1. to you as an employee
2. to the client’s friends and family
3. to your organisation (PC 2.2)