ECH130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Raw Image Format, Reductionism, Relative Risk
29 May 2018
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Week 4 Lecture 2 ECH130
Managing Risk in Outdoor Play -
Unpacking Risk:
• Risk = DANGER
• Common definitions:
o Risk equals the expected loss
o Risk is the probability of an adverse outcome
o Thus, risk is the engagement in behaviours that are associated with
some probability of negative outcomes
• Hazard = identifiable source of harm where there is a high probability of
serious injury or death
• However, risks are the situations where the outcome is uncertain regardless
of whether that outcome is predominately positive or negative.
o Children engage in self-chosen challenging activities that promote
development
• When risk does not equal danger, and equals uncertainty = risk is equal to the
combination of events/consequences and associated uncertainties
• Or a situation or event where something of human value is a stake and where
the outcome is uncertain
What is risk-taking?
• It is deciding between two pathways – uncertainty
• Making this decision allows us to weigh up the benefits vs. undesirable
outcomes
• May result in positive or negative outcomes
National Regulations:
• 4.2 Childres health ad safety
o Incidents, injuries, trauma and illnesses – procedures
o Notification to parents of incidents
o Risk assessment must be conducted before excursion
• 4.3 Physical Environment
o Need for supervision
• 4.5 Relationships with Children
o Interactions
o Encouraging them to express themselves
o Undertake experiences that develop self-reliance and self-esteem
• 4.7 Leadership and service management
o Policies and procedures
National Quality Standards (NQS) and Risky Play:
• Educators
o Pla to esure that all areas used y hildre are effetiely
supervised, including when children are participating in high-risk
atiities – think about the level of supervision
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o Esure hildre are alerted to safety issues and encouraged to
deelop these skills to assess ad iiise risks to their o safety –
equip children with the skills and capabilities able to recognise the
hazards and risks in the environment, and to think about their
behaviours
• Haig supportie relatioships ith eduators eales hildre to deelop
confidence in their ability to express themselves, work through differences,
lear e thigs, ad take alulated risks
Why Children need Risk and Challenge in Play?
• Health and developmental benefits:
o Try new physical activities
o Test the limits of their physical, intellectual and emotional
development
o Develop a wide range of manipulative and motor skills
o Gain mastery over their bodies
o Develop muscle strength, endurance, skeletal strength
o Enhances perceptual development
▪ Depth, form, shape, size movement perception
▪ General spatial-orientation abilities
• “atisfies hildres iate eed for risk ith reasoale risks i order to
prevent them finding greater unmanaged risk themselves
• Helps children learn how to manage risk (understanding safety)
• Children gain a sense of accomplishment
o Fosters greater confidence and competence
o Encourages children to seek new challenges and learn new skills
• Promotes life-long participation in physical activities
Potential Outcomes of Risk Minimisation:
• A number of factors we can identify that lead to risk-minimsation in play:
o High child-staff ratios
o External regulation restricting activities
o Inadequate understanding of benefits of risk-taking
o Poor outdoor environment
o Fear of litigation
• This leads to:
o Reduction in opportunities for child chosen risk
▪ This leads to reduced opportunities to develop skills in risk
evaluation
▪ And increase in unsafe risk-taking
• These both lead to poor evaluation of risk situations
which leads to INCERASED INJURY
o Reduction in physical play
▪ Change in quality of physical play
▪ And reduction in physical activity
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Document Summary
It is deciding between two pathways uncertainty: making this decision allows us to weigh up the benefits vs. undesirable outcomes, may result in positive or negative outcomes. National regulations: 4. 2 childre(cid:374)(cid:859)s health a(cid:374)d safety. Incidents, injuries, trauma and illnesses procedures: notification to parents of incidents, risk assessment must be conducted before excursion, 4. 3 physical environment, need for supervision, 4. 5 relationships with children. Interactions: encouraging them to express themselves, undertake experiences that develop self-reliance and self-esteem, 4. 7 leadership and service management, policies and procedures. Potential outcomes of risk minimisation: a number of factors we can identify that lead to risk-minimsation in play, high child-staff ratios, external regulation restricting activities. Increased risk of injury fear of litigation: we can see from this that adult perceptions of risk and how these are managed will ultimately determine whether opportunities for positive risk- taking are provided.
