Leisure Safety : Risk Education
Safety and risk education in leisure safety is about providing children with the skills to be able to asses risk in their daily lives and apply it to keep themselves safe. Too often we see a lack of judgement or an ignorance or disregard of water safety in cases such as drownings, and this is the case right through from childhood to adulthood. Safety and risk education in childhood both assists in keeping a child safe while they are growing up and also helps to prepare for adulthood through equipping them with important life-skills.
RoSPA promotes the idea of as safe as necessary, not as safe as possible and places an emphasis on equipping people with the skills to ensure informed choices of behaviour. It is important that society becomes risk aware, not risk averse, and this begins with safety and risk education in schools.
RoSPA Safety and Risk Education supports those who work with children and young people to promote safety.
LASER: Learning About Safety by Experiencing Risk
Learning About Safety by Experiencing Risk (LASER) is a powerful interactive approach to safety education that takes place outside the classroom. Its purpose is to educate and enable children so that they can begin to take some care of themselves and others in their immediate community. LASER schemes do this by providing children with opportunities to learn about and practise personal life skills, encouraging them to recognise and deal with the challenges and opportunities they might encounter throughout life, including in the home, when travelling or doing leisure activities.
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RoSPA is a registered charity: Registered Charity No: 207823 Patron: Her Majesty the Queen RoSPA Head Office: Edgbaston Park, 353 Bristol Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham B5 7ST, UK |
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