Mission Statement

Risk management

To minimise risks to our students, staff, client organisations, community members and stakeholders as far as is reasonably practicable, in accordance with all applicable risk management and health & safety laws, rules and regulations.

We will do this while providing high-quality experiential learning programs in a socially responsible and financially sustainable manner.

Our Philosophy of Risk Management

We recognise that risk is inherent in the experiential learning activities that we do, such as traveling to remote locations and low-resource communities, hiking, snorkelling, kayaking, and road travel, among others.
We also believe that experiencing certain risks in carefully constructed and well-managed experiential learning activities can provide educational value.
We do not seek for its students or staff to experience risks for their own sake, but only as required to meet the organisation’s programmatic objectives. Consequently, we seek to provide the programmatic activities with the lowest inherent risk possible, but which still meet our educational objectives.

Safety Culture

A positive safety culture is essential for achieving good risk management outcomes. This means that we must, on an ongoing basis, articulate that safety is an important priority at the organisation, and emphasise that our participants and partner institutions expect us to manage risks proactively and to a very high standard.
We also have an obligation to provide the financial, staff, administrative and other resources to allow pro- safety behaviour to flourish. We must set clear safety objectives, empower staff and students to meet them, evaluate if our efforts meet expectations and improve accordingly.

Process

SOME ASPECTS OF OUR RISK MANAGEMENT

All components of the trip are analysed with the following variables in mind

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Identify the Hazards
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Who Could Be Affected?
3
What is the Likelihood?
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What is the Impact?
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Control Measures
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Record Your Findings
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Review

Training to staff, including in our risk management procedures, in remote/wilderness and emergency medicine, and in incident response. They also go through child protection and safeguarding training. All instructors go through requisite training as per international standards.

Our Insurance partners not only provide travel insurance but also cover medical needs and emergency evacuation.

Our response plan include workflows and SOPs to handle varied kind of emergencies and empower our trip leaders through training in wilderness first aid and wilderness first responder depending on the program needs. To further strengthen our response we also have a 24X7 doctor hotline and an insurance partnership that cover emergency evacuation.

1. An incident also includes maybe incidents, and all of these are also recorded to improve our risk management practices. || 2. Defined workflows and SOPs to handle different categories raining from Medical, Criminal or Natural. || 3. All incidents are reviewed and debriefed so that further improvements can be made. Doing this over the last decade has strengthened our practices and field applicability.

All medical data from the participants is carefully collected and looked at for program suitability ( including specific medical conditions, allergies etc ). This allows us to make necessary preparations.

We believe that good documentation helps our staff be clear on what should be done, and also helps all interested stakeholders understand what has been done.

We recognise that periodic, formal, audits of its safety systems can help proactively prevent or mitigate future incidents.

MEMBERS OF ATOAI, IAYP ADVENTURE PARTNERS

We acknowledge that even good safety systems may experience a breakdown, in a way and at a time and in a place that may not be possible to determine in advance. We recognize that engineering in resilience to its safety system, so that perhaps inevitable breakdowns do not lead to catastrophic collapse of the entire system, is an important element of good risk management.
A risk assessment is a careful examination of what, in the trip / tour, could cause harm to members of the party, so that sufficient precautions can be taken to prevent harm. One of the main benefits of Risk Assessment is showcase the possible risks and mitigation tactics while also clearly stating the risk one is undertaking. One of the main benefits of Risk Assessment is to showcase the possible risks and mitigation tactics while also clarifying the clear risk one is undertaking. A risk assessment is a careful examination of what, in the trip / tour, could cause harm to members of the party, so that sufficient precautions can be taken to prevent harm.

Ways we communicate our commitment to safety

Examples of ways we communicate our commitment to safety include, but are not limited to:

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Recruiting and hiring staff with a demonstrated commitment to safety

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Extensive Training to staff in our risk management procedures,wilderness and emergency medicine and incident response

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Planning program operations to minimise inherent risks while still meeting educational aims

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Carefully screening students, and rejecting those who are unable to meet safety requirements

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Implementing policies and procedures to meet or exceed industry safety standards

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Providing suitable and well‐managed program gear, facilities and transportation options

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Encouraging staff to report errors and incidents, without fear of unjust reprisal