The project to develop Tasmanian Adventure Activity Standards (AAS) is a cross-agency initiative being led by Sport and Recreation Tasmania. AAS are accepted standards for organisations and individuals conducting outdoor recreation activities for groups where participants have a level of dependence upon the leader(s).
The standards are voluntary guidelines for undertaking potentially risky activities in a manner that is designed to promote safety for both participants and operators.
The AAS have been prepared with the involvement of a wide cross-section of the Tasmanian (and Victorian and South Australian) outdoor industry and reflect the minimum standards for planning and undertaking outdoor adventure activities with inexperienced and/or dependent participants.
The project is part of a national program, agreed on by the National Standing Committee on Recreation and Sport (SCORS), to develop a national minimum industry standards framework for such activities.
For more information on the history of the AAS project, click here.
Draft AAS have now been developed for twelve activities: bushwalking, canoeing and kayaking, caving, cross-country mountain biking, four wheel driving, horseriding and horse trail riding, indoor and artificial climbing, river rafting, rockclimbing and abseiling, ropes courses, snorkelling and wildlife swimmin and surfing. Note that the draft AAS for canoeing and kayaking has been posted with the knowledge that a revision of standards by Australian Canoeing is currently underway and may result in some change.
The period for public comment on the draft AAS closed on 12 October 2007. It is hoped that the final AAS will be available by Spring 2008.
The draft AAS and the supplementary folders that support them can be viewed by clicking on the link below:
