Risks from natural hazards
Activities such as bungee jumping, rock climbing and whitewater rafting are popular throughout New Zealand and are important to our tourism industry – but they also come with risks.
When you run an adventure activity or outdoor recreation business, keeping yourself, your staff and your customers safe is essential.
WorkSafe has developed new guidelines to help you manage risks from natural hazards.
Adventure activity operators
The guidelines will help if you:
- are registered as an adventure activity operator
- run similar outdoor recreation activities in areas with natural hazards, including if you do not need WorkSafe registration as an operator but have duties or obligations under the law
- have applied or will apply for registration to provide adventure activities in the future.
The guidance
The guidelines will help you identify, assess and manage risks from natural hazards.
They include an overview of natural hazards and good practice advice on managing natural hazard risks that:
- are a planned part of your activity’s risks
- are not planned as part of your activity’s risks but may still be present or happen during the activity.
You can download the guidance from WorkSafe’s website.