Risk-benefit assessment – workshops and support

The aim is to help practitioners feel confident and competent to offer the sort of play, adventurous and leisure opportunities that so many of us believe in. That is, to offer beneficial risk-taking opportunities across a range of settings and situations.

1. Risk-benefit assessment workshops

This is a workshop for all those who have responsibility for judging risk levels in a range of settings: play, outdoor activities, sport, parks, schools, out of school projects.

The workshop aims to enhance practitioners' understanding of, and confidence to address risk-benefit assessment. We do this by:

• discussing the underpinning rationale of a risk-benefit approach
• comparing and contrasting it to conventional risk assessment methods
• look at the factors that affect practitioners' judgment, including concerns about the potential for negligence claims.

Each participant then does a risk-benefit assessment.

The workshops can play a key role in developing a cross-organisation consensus about risk.

The workshops are useful for:

• play providers generally
• landscape architects and designers
• outdoor activity provision
• health and safety officers
• schools – teachers, Governors and playground supervisors
• senior personnel across departments and responsibilities

The workshops are led by PLAYLINK Associates. They include:

• Phil Doyle, consultant
• Judi Legg, designer
• Sue Gutteridge, former Head of Stirling Play Services
• Bernard Spiegal, PLAYLINK’s Principal

To discuss the risk-benefit assessment workshop, please contact us or visit risk-benefit assessment workshop for more information.

2. Risk-benefit support

We also support and work alongside individual authorities, agencies and organisations that have begun to – or want to start - using the risk-benefit assessment approach. This support is designed to work with you on specific ‘real-time’ assessments that you need to conduct as part of your practice.

The nature of the support will be tailored to suit your particular situation.

To discuss the risk-benefit assessment support, please contact us.

 
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