CampFire General Risk Assessment
Allergic Reactions 3 5 High
Burns 4 5 Extreme
- Ensure a list of allergies is present and understood prior to commencing activities.
- Ensure food selected for camp fire use is free from allergens eg. Nuts.
- Dietary requirements to be cooked, and handled separately to non dietary specific food.
- Instructors/Staff or Volunteers to conduct site inspections prior to commencing activity to look for any potential hazards. Modifications made if required.
- Leaders are made aware of participants with allergies, anaphylaxis or intolerances prior to setting up activity..
- Participants must remain seated unless asked by a leader to stand.
- A maximum of 10 people, including leaders , stand around the fire pit during camp cooking.
- Ensure supervisions ratios do not exceed 1:10
- No body parts to touch the fireplace at any time.
- Monitor behaviour around the fireplace.
- Running water is available at all times during activity.
- Leaders only manage fire.
- Ensure fire intensity is managed at all times to a suitable level.
- Fire is not to be left unattended.
- All leaders and to be aware of first aid kit locations.
- Fire to be fully extinguished upon completion of session.
- Closed-toed shoes to be worn at all times around the campfire. Slips/Trips/ Falls
- Participants are not to stand on logs under any circumstances.
- Leaders to conduct inspection of the area prior to activity commencing remove or isolate any hazards if required.
- No running around the fireplace area or on stage.
- Correct lifting techniques are used when carrying firewood.
- Leaders to manage firewood handling.
- Follow the manual handling guide, located on the door of the firewood shed.
- Ensure all participants and leaders wash hands prior to commencing activity.
- Use of gloves if participants would prefer.
- Leaders check each participant's damper to ensure it is cooked through to eat.
- Ensure fire sticks are used only for cooking.
- Fire sticks are to be limited to using four at any one time.
- Participants briefed on safe use of fire sticks.
- Sticks that have hot embers on the end are not to be placed on the ground.
- Fire is not to be used during days of total fire ban.
- During the Fire Danger Period - fires cannot be lit if winds exceed 10 km/h.
- Follow CFA guidelines on fire lighting regulations.
- If extreme weather is predicted, no fire is to be lit.
- Regulations on fire lighting to be read before lighting fire. (Located on inside of firewood shed)