Risk Management & Safety For International School Tours

Description

Are you taking students on an International Tour, Expedition or Study Program? If so, this course is for you. Build your understanding and confidence when planning for and managing the dynamic range of risks involved with any international program.

International Trips can be great ways to build a range of skills and foster global citizenship with your students, however, they also come with a range of additional risks.

The Xcursion Risk Management for International Tours course steps you through the process of planning, preparing and running any sort of International Trip from an operational risk management point of view. Whether you're running your program internally or contracting out parts or all of your program to a specialist tour guide or activity provider, this course will help you build your understanding and confidence in risk management for all your International trips regardless of where you're going.

*This course is based upon The International Standard For Travel Risk Management - ISO31030

Benefits

• Improve Safety

• Empower students to be part of the management of risk on your program

• Build effective risk management systems for your International programs

• Build confidence in managing risks & decision-making processes

• Understand how to develop a culture of risk management

• Improve communications skills

• Reduce your exposure to personal legal liability

• Avoid lengthy, expensive legal investigations

• Improve educational outcomes

For ACT Registered Teachers

This course is an accredited TQI training course and will contribute to 4 hours of professional development.

This course contains materials which may be upsetting to some participants, including violent and sexual references and case studies which explore confronting details of incidents which have occurred on school trips that have resulted in serious injuries and/or death. Case studies and examples are designed to highlight the dangers and risks involved in these types of activities and help prevent them from occurring in the future. Please bear this in mind before you start the course. We have made every effort to ensure these matters are presented in a meaningful and sensitive way to help improve safety. However, if something from this course does trigger something in you, please connect with a professional counseling service immediately.

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