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Managing Risk For Trails:fulfilling legal obligations vs. best practice
Jeff Jackson, Ph.D.Professor, Algonquin College
Consultant, Direct Bearing Inc.
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Risk Management
Risk Management Goal:
We want:
The right people
In the right place
At the right time
With the right gear
Doing the right thing.
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Trail based risk
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Trail-basedRisk Management
System
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Access
User info. /
signage
Traffic control
Choice / Challenge
Speed control
Supervision
Trail Classifications
Type I Type II Type III Type IV
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Access
User info. /
signage
Traffic control
Choice / Challenge
Speed control
SupervisionTrail-based
Risk Management System
Legal baseline:
1. Sign as ‘recreation trail’ – OLA
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Legal baseline:
1. Sign as ‘recreation trail’ – OLA
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Legal baseline:
1. Sign as ‘recreation trail’ – OLA
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Legal baseline:
1. Sign as ‘recreation trail’ – OLA
2. Indicate users/non users – Trespass Act
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Legal baseline:
1. Sign as ‘recreation trail’ – OLA
2. Indicate users/non users – Trespass Act
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Legal baseline:
1. Sign as ‘recreation trail’ – OLA
2. Indicate users/non users – Trespass Act
3. Post Assumption of Risk signage - Negligence
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Legal baseline:
1. Sign as ‘recreation trail’ – OLA
2. Indicate users/non users – Trespass Act
3. Post Assumption of Risk signage - Negligence
4. Warn of obvious hazards – Negligence
– Commensurate with visibility and severity of hazard
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Hazards visible or marked
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Legal baseline:
1. Sign as ‘recreation trail’ – OLA
2. Indicate users/non users – Trespass Act
3. Post Assumption of Risk signage – Negligence
4. Warn of obvious hazards – Negligence
5. Align with a trail standard – case law
6. Document an inspection plan – case law
Reasonable and foreseeable
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Baseline vs Best Practice:
• User’s perspective in managing safety
• Align/make a standard, perform to it
• risk assessment and address priority areas
• Prove due diligence:
– Risk assess and Risk plan
– Professional risk or safety audits
– Invest & train Inspect & Maintenance system
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Access
User info. /
signage
Traffic control
Choice / Challenge
Speed control
Supervision
Trail-basedRisk Management
System
Access
User info. /
signage
Traffic control
Choice / Challenge
Speed control
Supervision
Trail-basedRisk Management
System
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Bottom line:
• Trail RM as user oriented
• Trail RM as integrated system
• Legal baseline items
• Risk assess, I&M
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