Gavin Howat

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Gavin Howat
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• Whitewater Paddler
• Campsie Linn River Tay

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• Sea Kayaker (is it an age thing?)
• Between Cumbrae and Largs, Firth of Clyde

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• Occasional Canoeist

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• Skier (enthusiastic rather than stylish!)
• Mammoth Mountain, Ca.

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• Have even gone down caves
• Long Churn

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• When not having fun

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• When not having fun
• HSE Inspector

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Sensible Risk Management

• Essential

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Sensible Risk Management

• Essential
• Manage risk responsibly resource it properly
  and take ownership

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Sensible Risk Management

• Essential
• Manage risk responsibly resource it properly
  and take ownership
• Save lives, dont stop them

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Sensible Risk Management

• Essential
• Manage risk responsibly resource it properly
  and take ownership
• Save lives, dont stop them
• Proper risk management - sensible

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Sensible Risk Management

• Essential
• Manage risk responsibly resource it properly
  and take ownership
• Save lives, dont stop them
• Proper risk management - sensible
• Not about making everything risk free

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Sensible Risk Management

• Essential
• Manage risk responsibly resource it properly
  and take ownership
• Save lives, dont stop them
• Proper risk management - sensible
• Not about making everything risk free
• NO MORE CONKERS BONKERS PLEASE!

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Sensible Risk Management

• If a policy sounds ridiculous, it probably is!

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Sensible Risk Management

• If a policy sounds ridiculous, it probably is!
• Tidal wave watch

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Sensible Risk Management

• If a policy sounds ridiculous, it probably is!
• Tidal wave watch
• Manage real risk not rare risk!

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Sensible Risk Management

• HSE is frustrated at a regular diet of stories in
  the media associating health and safety with
  decisions which appear to be killjoy at best at
  worst simply barmy.
• It drives me up the wall, there is often at the
  back of it some grain of risk but the reaction is
  often disproportionate Campbell says of such
  accounts.
• (S. Campbell, Director, HSE Scotland in Herald
  Society, 4/10/2005)

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Sensible Risk Management?

• Bivvy bags to be taken to outdoor museums

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Sensible Risk Management?

• Bivvy bags to be taken to outdoor museums
• Throwline for paddling at the beach

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Sensible Risk Management?

• Bivvy bags to be taken to outdoor museums
• Throwline for paddling at the beach
• Helmet, knee and elbow pads for a bike ride (not
  downhill mountain biking!)

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Sensible Risk Management?

• Bivvy bags to be taken to outdoor museums
• Throwline for paddling at the beach
• Helmet, knee and elbow pads for a bike ride (not
  downhill mountain biking!)
• Unless children and young people are exposed to
  risk, they will not be able to develop practical
  mechanisms for managing risk J Rees, Deputy
  Chief Executive, HSE, 2007

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Sensible Risk Assessment

• Doing it safely not about finding excuses not
  to do something

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Sensible Risk Assessment

• Doing it safely not about finding excuses not
  to do something
• About good planning and putting the plan into
  practice

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Sensible Risk Assessment

• Doing it safely not about finding excuses not
  to do something
• About good planning and putting the plan into
  practice
• Not about bureaucratic back covering Bill
  Callaghan

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Sensible Risk Assessment

• Doing it safely not about finding excuses not
  to do something
• About good planning and putting the plan into
  practice
• Not about bureaucratic back covering Bill
  Callaghan
• Focus on practical steps to manage REAL risk

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Sensible Risk Assessment

• Doing it safely not about finding excuses not
  to do something
• About good planning and putting the plan into
  practice
• Not about bureaucratic back covering Bill
  Callaghan
• Focus on practical steps to manage REAL risk
• Stop the pious paperwork!

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Sensible Risk Assessment

• Not every visit will need a full risk assessment
  every time if the last one is still good use
  it

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Sensible Risk Assessment

• Not every visit will need a full risk assessment
  every time if the last one is still good use
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• Responsibility of the employer!

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Sensible Risk Assessment

• Not every visit will need a full risk assessment
  every time if the last one is still good use
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• Responsibility of the employer!
• Generic, site specific, dynamic

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Sensible Safety Management

• Implement your controls

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Sensible Safety Management

• Implement your controls
• Monitor what you do

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Sensible Safety Management

• Implement your controls
• Monitor what you do
• Audit what you say you do to ensure you do what
  you say you do!

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Sensible Safety Management

• Implement your controls
• Monitor what you do
• Audit what you say you do to ensure you do what
  you say you do!
• And by no means least deploy competent staff
  within their competence!

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Do It!

• Adventure and outdoor activities offer
  educational and recreational opportunities as
  well as personal and social development to
  participants, regardless of their background.
  These activities can help foster a spirit of
  adventure in which the participants can learn to
  work with others and cope with an element of the
  unknown and so develop the ability to deal with
  changing circumstances and the management of
  risk HSC AAIAC Statement on risk perception in
  adventure and outdoor activities

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