Plan the year 9 overnight bushwalk on the Otway ridge track

You are an outdoor leader preparing a trip plan for approval.

Simulated workplaceAdvanced missionCAQA Summit Sport and Recreation

What is going on

Bayside Grammar has booked an overnight bushwalk for 24 year 9 students on 24 and 25 September on the Otway ridge track, with four leaders including you and Harper Quinn. The trip plan and risk assessment must reach Tane Wiremu by 19 September. A student rolled an ankle on loose rock on the ridge track this month, spring river levels are variable at the creek crossing, and the fire danger season has not yet started. The school has sent enrolment forms with two students who have asthma and one with a nut allergy. Tents and stoves are in the equipment register and the abseil set is not needed.

Tane Wiremu, Outdoor Programs Manager
Subject: Trip plan for the Bayside Grammar year 9 overnight walk

The Bayside Grammar year 9 overnight bushwalk on the Otway ridge track is on 24 and 25 September with 24 students and four leaders. I want you to prepare the trip plan and risk assessment with Harper using the template, and submit it to me by 19 September. Use the generic bushwalking risk assessment, the incident from the ridge track ankle injury this month, and the current fire danger and river level information. Check the equipment register, the abseil set is not needed but the tents and stoves are. Confirm every leader's qualifications and checks in the register.

Your brief

Produce a complete trip plan and risk assessment on the template for the overnight walk, adapted from the generic bushwalking risk assessment to this route, group and season, with leader qualifications verified, weather and river decision points, equipment and communications confirmed and residual risks that the manager can approve.

Work through it

You do not need to do it all. Doing a few of these will show you what the work is like. Your ticks and notes stay on this device.

Read the outdoor activity risk management and trip procedure, the child safety policy and the trip plan and risk assessment template, and obtain the generic bushwalking risk assessment from the document library.
Verify each leader's outdoor leadership qualification, remote area first aid and Working with Children Check status in the register and confirm the ratio and gender balance meet the procedure.
Plan the route with map references, distances, estimated times, the campsite, water sources, escape routes and the overdue time, and check the tents, stoves and communications device in the equipment register.
Identify the hazards for this route, season and group, including the loose rock section, the creek crossing, weather, the asthma and allergy needs and supervision overnight, and record controls and residual risk.
Set the weather, fire danger and river level decision points and the conditions that will modify or cancel the walk, and plan the check-in schedule with the Outdoor Base.
Plan the participant briefing covering the route, group rules, minimal impact practice, what to do if separated and the medical arrangements for the students with asthma and the allergy.
Enter the trip in the programs and bookings system, submit the completed template for approval and record the approval outcome.
Draft the close-out section you will complete on return, including the debrief questions and how incidents and equipment faults will be recorded.

My notes: what did I enjoy, and what surprised me?

What someone in this role would produce

Completed trip plan and risk assessment on the template
Leader qualification and check verification record
Route plan with decision points and overdue time
Participant briefing outline
Programs and bookings entry

Printing this is a record of what you explored. It is not a certificate or a qualification.