Medium Risk Fieldwork

The medium risk process without requiring medical declarations is intended for fieldwork where the risk level is elevated by the location or activity requiring additional controls. The categorisation of low risk is defined in the risk sections.

Medium risk fieldwork requires that a fieldwork approved should be selected. Normally this would be someone within your school or faculty. The fieldwork approver will have completed a fieldwork approver induction that is approved by their executive leader. This approval includes the areas of delegation that the fieldwork approver is authorised to approve. For example if the fieldwork involves work in an alpine area, the fieldwork approver should have ‘alpine environment’ an a delegated area of approval.

Elevated risk factors – higher risk businesses, including manufacturing and industrial sites with increased risk factors, logging, quarries and mines, roading or similar development sites, working/travelling alone, door-to-door surveys, working with contractors, outdoor activities off UC Ilam or Dovedale campus, e.g. field stations, camps, boats, river, marine, mountain and bush activities, roadway and roadside, climbing, abseiling, diving. Solo activites including: Working alone, Working with the public, Conduction interviews/surveys.

Medium Risk, Require Medical Declarations

The medium risk with medical declarations is intended for fieldwork where the risk level is elevated by the location or activity requiring additional controls, and one of the risk controls is to identify risk related to participants pre-existing medical conditions.

To protect the privacy of participants medical information, the fieldwork leader will only be able to access the medical declaration report once access is approved by the fieldwork coordinator. Once the fieldwork plan is created and the participant list populated, either automatically based on enrolments in a course, or manually, the plan will then be submitted to the coordinator. If the coordinator confirms that access to medical records by the fieldwork leader is valid, they can then progress the plan to the review state where the leader can access the medical declarations report and continue to edit and complete the fieldwork plan.

The leader will then select a fieldwork approver. Normally this would be someone within their school or faculty. The fieldwork approver will have completed a fieldwork approver induction that is approved by their executive leader. This approval includes the areas of delegation that the fieldwork approver is authorised to approve. For example if the fieldwork involves work in an alpine area, the fieldwork approver should have ‘alpine environment’ an a delegated area of approval. If the approver is satisfied that the plan is appropriately detailed to identify and mitogate risk insofar as is reasonably practible, they then approve the plan and the plan moves to the approved state. If the plan requires more detail the approver can refer it back to the plannig state