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Title
Describe safety management in youth work
Level
3
Credits
5
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: describe
potential risks when managing the safety of youth in youth
work; and describe risk management for youth work.
Classification
Social Services > Youth Development
Available grade
Achieved
Entry information
Recommended skills
and knowledge
Unit 16843, Demonstrate knowledge of the meaning of Te Tiriti
o Waitangi in youth work; and Unit 22256, Explain the
principles and underlying philosophy of the Youth Development
Strategy Aotearoa.
Explanatory notes
1
Legislation may include but is not limited to the: Health and Safety in Employment
Act 1992; Part 9 of the Employment Relations Act 2000 ss. 62, 63, and 69 Human
Rights Act 1993; Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Act 1989.
2
Resources
Ministry of Youth Affairs. 2002. Youth development strategy Aotearoa – Action for
child and youth development. Wellington: Ministry of Youth Affairs. Available online
from the Ministry of Youth Development (http://www.myd.govt.nz), along with
supporting documents.
United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which may be found online at
http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/humanrights/resources.asp.
Convention on the Rights of the Child, which may be found online at:
http://www.unicef.org/crc/.
This unit standard is
expiring
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Describe potential risks when managing the safety of youth in youth work.
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Evidence requirements
1.1
Potential risks in youth work are described in terms of sources of potential risks
and areas of impact of those risks.
Range
1.2
potential risks may include but are not limited to – environmental
events and natural dangers; equipment; human behaviour; loss of
funding support; personnel changes; staff-client ratios;
sources of potential risks – environment, youth worker, young
person, youth work agency;
areas of impact may include but are not limited to – costs; youth;
community; environment; property damage; security; health; legal
and professional liability; loss of stakeholder support.
Evidence is required of one potential risk, its source and its areas
of impact.
Risk assessment and levels of risk are explained.
Range
risk assessment may include but is not limited to – identifying
potential risks to youth, to youth workers, to the youth work
organisation, to others;
levels of risk – acceptable or unacceptable; balancing a risk
against benefits obtained by taking the risk within the context of a
youth work situation.
Outcome 2
Describe risk management for youth work.
Evidence requirements
2.1
This unit standard is
Range
financial risks with people may include but are not limited to –
theft, fraud,expiring
improper application of funds, cash arrangements;
financial risks with events may include but are not limited to –
Potential financial and physical risks with people and events in youth work
situations are described.
project failure, adverse economic events, adverse environmental
events;
physical risks with people may include but are not limited to –
burglary, theft, damage;
physical risks with events may include but are not limited to – fire,
flood, earthquake, accidental explosion, contamination, equipment
breakdown.
Evidence is required of one financial risk and one physical risk
with people; and one physical risk and one financial risk with
events.
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2.2
Risk-transfer strategies are explained as methods of risk management.
risk-transfer strategies may include but are not limited to –
contractual indemnity against loss or damage, insurance against
specified risks, self-insurance plans.
Evidence is required of two risk-transfer strategies.
Range
2.3
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Risk-management strategies are described for youth work situations where
there are potential financial or physical risks.
risk-management strategies may include but are not limited to –
financial controls; security systems; planning for alternative dates
or venues for the programme or project; contingency planning;
quality assurance; preventative maintenance; physical protection
systems; incident reporting systems.
Evidence is required of risk-management strategies matched to
examples of two financial or physical risks, one with people and
one with events.
Range
This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by
the last date for assessment set out below.
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
30 August 1999
31 December 2014
Revision
2
15 December 2000
31 December 2014
Revision
3
20 March 2003
31 December 2014
Review
4
26 November 2007
31 December 2014
Rollover and
Revision
Review
Rollover
5
21
February 2013
31 December
This
unit
standard
is2016
6
19 March 2015
31 December 2018
expiring
7
17 September 2015
31 December 2018
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0222
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA,
before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses
of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
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Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing
to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
This unit standard is
expiring
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