Risk Management
In certain situations, the risk is so great that individuals steer clear of the activity.
What is Avoiding the Risk?
Accept: Avoid the risk
Reducing the chances of injury or loss by taking steps to identify, measure, and control risks.
What is Risk Management?
The first person healthcare providers and emergency services will contact if you're in a medical crisis.
What is Emergency Contact?
A condition that occurs when the body loses too much water and other fluids that it needs to work normally.
What is Dehydration?
A device that helps restore the heartbeat to a regular rhythm.
What is Defibrillator?
Accept: AED
This risk management strategy involves quick thinking and logic to remedy the risk as it happens.
What is Correcting the Risk?
Accept: Correct the Risk; Fix the Risk
This management strategy is used to respond appropriately and immediately when a risky situation arises.
What is Reactive Strategies?
A minimum certification for a fitness/rec/leisure leader that allows them to administer basic assistance to individuals in distress.
What is First Aid?
Accept: Standard First Aid; First Aid Training; First Aid Trained
DAILY DOUBLE:
A tactic used by individuals during cold weather by wearing multiple garments on top of each other.
What is Layering?
"Blue to the sky, orange to the thigh".
What is an EpiPen?
Environment, Human and Equipment are part of which risk management strategy?
What is Reducing the Risk?
A management strategy used to prevent or avoid problem behaviour or dysregulation from occurring BEFORE the activity.
What is Proactive Strategies?
A sheet of paper posted near the telephone (usually) and includes important contact numbers and names of the people who will take charge in the event of an emergency.
What is Emergency Action Plan?
Accept: EAP
A condition that occurs due to long exposure to the elements in cold weather?
What is Hypothermia?
A depression of the circulatory system brought on by the sudden drop in blood flow through the body.
What is Shock?
This risk management strategy includes individuals obtaining liability insurance in the event of an accident so that a person is protected from financial loss.
What is Transferring the Risk?
A legal term referring to behaviour that fails to meet a reasonable standard of care.
What is Negligence?
DAILY DOUBLE:
In the area, on-site and constant visual represent which type of risk management procedure.
What is Types of Supervision?
The group of people that are at a higher risk of overheating because their sweating mechanism is not fully developed.
What is Children?
Accept: Kids; Youth
A severe, life-threatening allergic reaction.
What is Anaphylactic Shock?
Accept: Anaphylaxis
DAILY DOUBLE:
An acceptable risk management strategy where all safety precautions and correct training and supervision are in place, but the risk may be more perceived than real.
What is Retaining the Risk?
Refers to which person or persons should bear the blame for a particular incident or occurrence; may be split.
What is Liability?
Something that is practiced to prepare people in the event of an emergency; specific and direct.
What is Emergency Drill?
Accept: Drill
The most serious heat-related illness. Occurs when the body can no longer control its temperature: there may be a change in mental status, such as confusion, delirium, combativeness, seizures, and/or loss of consciousness.
What is Heat Stroke?
This document describes the steps you take when responding to emergency situations; should be designed, practiced, and modified as needed.
What is Emergency Response Plan?