Risk Management

Course Description

Risk management for parks, recreation, tourism, and sport organizations with an emphasis on ethical managerial strategies. Students will learn how legal concepts relate to specific managerial functions and how a knowledge of law and its impact on functions of recreation environments can help build a more efficient and successful services. Students will also learn how effective strategies for risk management in parks, recreation, tourism, and sport organizations can facilitate active-healthy lifestyles and sustainable communities.

Learning Objectives

1. Summarize principals of risk management within the context of basic management functions such as governance, human resource management, and organizational operations.
2. Identify and describe policies and practices for managing program and service risks. Emphasis on employee selection and qualifications, supervision issues, training considerations, safety and security issues, appropriate documentation.
3. Advanced analysis of policies and practices for managing recreation facility, built environments, trails and open space risks such as maintenance/inspection issues, OSHA guidelines and compliances, and contract negotiation and management.
4. Identify and describe policies for managing human resource risk (e.g. constitutional law issues, EEO, OSHA, discrimination, fair labor standards, working conditions).
5. Discussion how effective strategies for risk management in parks, recreation, tourism and sport organizations can facilitate active-healthy lifestyles and sustainable communities.
6. Critically evaluate the risks inherent in a selected parks, recreation, sport or tourism operations and discuss strategies for managing risks.

Reflection

I found this class very informative and interesting. As someone who has had a fan mindset throughout her life, changing that mindset as someone who wants to be professionally involved was eye opening. I learned about the facilities, operations, inherent risks, and how to make risk management decisions based on the frequency and severity of these risks. I also learned about emergency action plans and what goes into creating one for a facility, including the training of staff at a variety of levels. Risk management is a critical part of parks, recreation, sport and tourism operations as the safety of visitors, participants, and staff are important at all levels.

PRT 508: Risk Management Artifact