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1. The Outdoors New Zealand OutdoorsMark Quality Assurance Scheme has been designed for those New Zealand organisations that offer outdoor education and recreation programmes, to provide a process to examine the quality of their policies, procedures and practices that exist for safety within the organisation. OutdoorsMark is a development of the UK’s Adventure Activities Licensing Authority scheme.) While other organisational accreditation schemes exist , the overall aim of OutdoorsMark is to introduce a quality assurance scheme specifically relevant to the outdoor recreation industry. Accreditation will be for a period of 3 years for organisations achieving the required standard, provided the annual renewal declarations that they are continuing to adhere to standards are supplied. www.outdoorsmark.org.nz
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2. The Education Outside the Classroom (EOTC) link has been developed to inform and support teachers and other educators in providing safe and effective curriculum-based learning that extends beyond the classroom walls. It provides links to supporting resources and organisations. (www.tki.org.nz/e/community/eotc)
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3. ROSA is a collective of outdoor safety auditors aspiring to achieve the highest quality of safety auditing standards and to conduct themselves in a professional manner throughout their association with their clients and other members of the community. (www.outdoorsnz.org.nz/auditors.html)
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4. Free publications that can be useful in planning your outdoor activities. (www.mountainsafety.org.nz/publications)
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5. Managing risk is no longer seen as the sole responsibility of the instructor or teacher, but also of those bodies responsible for making the various activities available, including managers and board of trustees or directors. The second edition of the Outdoor Safety Management Manual (Manual 38) incorporates many new developments from a variety of sources including current legislation, management tools, and experiences from teaching the subject to students. This new publication is designed to address issues across this spectrum and is seen as the prime reference within Australasia.
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A CD has been developed, in conjunction with the new manual, to assist providers of outdoor safety management with a series of course guidelines, teaching activities and additional teaching resources to help you. (www.mountainsafety.org.nz/resources/outdoorsafety/index.html)
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