1. This document outlines potential hazards and risk mitigation strategies for bird watching activities. It identifies weather changes, haze, and biting insects as key hazards. Control strategies include preparing proper equipment, clothing, and information resources to handle different weather conditions and insect risks.
2. For each hazard, it analyzes contributing human, equipment, and environmental factors. It then provides options to address those factors, such as using guidebooks, lights, communication devices, signs, and maintaining the area.
3. The goal is to raise awareness of risks and empower participants and locations to implement controls that minimize accidents and injuries during bird watching. Comprehensive planning around hazards, their causes, and mitigation approaches can help
1. This document outlines potential hazards and risk mitigation strategies for bird watching activities. It identifies weather changes, haze, and biting insects as key hazards. Control strategies include preparing proper equipment, clothing, and information resources to handle different weather conditions and insect risks.
2. For each hazard, it analyzes contributing human, equipment, and environmental factors. It then provides options to address those factors, such as using guidebooks, lights, communication devices, signs, and maintaining the area.
3. The goal is to raise awareness of risks and empower participants and locations to implement controls that minimize accidents and injuries during bird watching. Comprehensive planning around hazards, their causes, and mitigation approaches can help
1. This document outlines potential hazards and risk mitigation strategies for bird watching activities. It identifies weather changes, haze, and biting insects as key hazards. Control strategies include preparing proper equipment, clothing, and information resources to handle different weather conditions and insect risks.
2. For each hazard, it analyzes contributing human, equipment, and environmental factors. It then provides options to address those factors, such as using guidebooks, lights, communication devices, signs, and maintaining the area.
3. The goal is to raise awareness of risks and empower participants and locations to implement controls that minimize accidents and injuries during bird watching. Comprehensive planning around hazards, their causes, and mitigation approaches can help
Num. Potential Hazards [Accident, Injury or Casual Factors Assessment Control Options / Strategies other form of damage] 1 Weather changes Human Factor: Human Factor: -Does not determine the right time for -Come when the weather is not bird watching. stormy. -can’t hear the birds calling. -Find information about the -can’t see the birds. environment there
Equipment Factor: Equipment Factor:
1.No guidebook 1.Buy a guidebook 2.no weather sensors.
Environment Factor: Environment Factor:
1.Rain,strong winds & winter 1.prepare an umbrella 2.prepare a hat 3.prepare a raincoat 2 Haze Human Factor: Human Factor: -Difficult to spot birds -Learn bird calls -Difficult identify birds -Listen for vocalizations -Reduced visibility -Choose optimal timing
Equipment Factor: Equitment Factor:
-No communication equipment -Bring communication equipment like phone for students and staff share phone numbers Environment Factor: Environment Factor: -Foggy -Torch light
3. Biting insects Human factor: Human factor:
-The party in charge of the place failed - The place should place signs in every to provide awareness about dangerous corner of the place so that tourists are and poisonous insects. always alert to dangerous insects. -Tourists do not obey the rules set by -Tourists must comply with the rules the place of the place and if they violate the place will not be held responsible.
Equipment factor Equipment factor
-does not have a skilled tour guide -The place must hire skilled workers in -Not wearing the clothes specified by the field the venue -Tourists must adhere to the dress code set by the place.
Environment factor: Environmental factor:
-The place is not properly maintained as -The place always checks the condition the grass has grown high and dangerous of the place and takes good care of it branches can become a place for dangerous insects to live.