Outdoor Recreation Industry Council NSW

An industry that can speak with a united voice is more powerful than the individual

New Private Water Supply Guidelines (back to topics)

NSW Health has released the Private Water Supply Guidelines, which set out the responsibilities of operators of private water supplies and aims to assist them in providing a safe water supply (ie. premises that are not served by a public water utility). Such premises include caravan parks, guesthouses, camp and recreational facilities.

These Guidelines have been developed in response to a number of disease outbreaks attributed to such supplies over the last 20 years, and provide information to private water supply operators on how to ensure that they provide a safe water supply to consumers. The Guidelines recommend that operators adopt a risk management approach to managing their water supplies; this requires the preparation of a water supply management plan.

A copy of the Guidelines and a DVD (that presents information for operators to assist with following the Guidelines) will be mailed out to appropriate ORIC members, or you may request them by phoning or emailing the ORIC office. The Guidelines are also available for download at NSW Health

During the 100 years celebration Scouts Australia - Activities NSW has recognised a few individuals who supply excellent service the to greater community. At the recent ORIC Conference, The Region Commissioner Activities - Tim Riley, presented ORIC's Kirstin Peralta with a Scouts Australia-Activities NSW Ambassador Award more

Service Skills Australia (SSA), the organisation responsible for developing the competency standards that your employees are trained to have been charged by the Australian Government to work with our industries in a more expansive way to discuss how to develop the outdoor recreation workforce and its skills, more broadly.

SSA invite you or a senior person from your organisation to participate in a forum of national dialogue about workforce and skills development for our industry, and to work with the industry skills council to develop a set of workforce development priorities, to ensure the needs of industry are met and accurately conveyed to government more

Mark Collard, one of Australia's leading adventure educators, and author of the popular 'No Props' activity book, has just released a BRAND NEW ebook describing TEN of the MOST SUCCESSFUL ice-breaker and interactive group activities he knows, each with easy to follow step-by-step instructions and illustrations.

When you register to receive Mark's FREE "SURE-FIRE Ice-Breakers & Group Games" ebook, you'll discover...

• TEN of the MOST SUCCESSFUL ice-breaker and interactive group activities that I know, each with easy to follow step-by-step instructions and illustrations;
• Everyone will LOVE these activities - kids and adults, school, community and corporate groups. They require no equipment at all, and can be used with any size group;
• The SEVEN SECRET TRICKS of the trade that will immediately help your group to feel at ease, and make you look like an expert;
• And, I'll also REVEAL the FOUR WORDS that explain why most ice-breakers and group games fail, and what you can do to avoid this happening to you.

Just click FREE 30 page ebook and enter your First Name and Primary Email Address, and then click the 'FREE Instant Download' button to instantly receive this. Allow a few seconds for the download page to load.

With great potential for all camp facilitators and leaders, Circle Time is a framework for social and emotional learning which uses shared activities and games to promote the understanding and skills that are the foundations for positive relationships, resilience and responsibility.

Many who were at this year's Conference expressed an interest in hearing more from Sue, and ORIC is planning to host a workshop during November.

Please fill in the following form to make sure you receive details and have a place reserved - as numbers will be limited. We will then get back to you with details, as soon as possible more

Ms Jodi McKay, the Member for Newcastle, has been appointed as the NSW Minister for Tourism. Ms McKay, who has been a Member of Parliament since 2007, previously worked as a journalist in television, radio and print media in Northern NSW before entering the private sector in corporate communications and marketing. She has also held honorary Board positions with the Hunter Medical Research Institute, the University of Newcastle research Associates and the Hunter Manufacturers' Association.

Ms McKay said “I am delighted to be appointed the Minister for Tourism and am looking forward to working with you to encourage more visitors to experience Sydney and NSW. It makes me proud to be associated with such a diverse range of attractions and destinations in our fantastic State. Tourism faces some challenges ahead and I am confident we can build on our successes and work together to deliver an exciting future for tourism in NSW.”

If you are a current outdoor leader who spends considerable time working in the field, Eric Brymer and Cathryn Carpenter of Victoria University, together with Tonia Gray (University Woolongong) and Wayne Cotton (University Sydney) would like your input. "Given today's focus on the state of the environment it will be interesting to determine if outdoor education has a large role to play in the development of leaders who have a positive relationship to the natural world - which of course has larger links into the development of ecologically sound leaders in business as well as the development of sustainable practices and so on.”

The aim of this project is to explore transformational leadership as appropriate for understanding outdoor leadership, and explore outdoor leader's ecological perspectives. It is hopted that this model might add further insight into leadership and how to better prepare leaders for ecologically sound work in the outdoors and beyond.

If this project sound interesting to you, Eric would appreciate 20 minutes of your time completing the online survey. Please click here

The Outdoor Ed Community is a full-featured Social Networking Site for Outdoor Education Professionals, featuring Blogs and Discussion Forums with email notification, including a full-featured Media and File Download Section, Friends, Private Email and Private Messaging with colleagues.

The new Media section is designed to be the largest online outdoor education library. It's divided into thematic sections like Curriculum and Protocols including YouTube videos on outdoor education. It's completely searchable allowing you to track down files by keywords. Try searching for 'risk management' and see what pops up. Got some things to add? Click the Upload link on anyof the Media pages to submit files or links (all files are reviewedbefore publishing).

You are invited to help build a great resource libraryby uploading your own files to share or providing links to otherfiles/sites on the Web, and to share your conference materials by uploading them in places like the Curriculum & Protocols sections or the General section where we have lots of subcategories built around major conference topics.

Of course, all the site features are free. Login and check out the the new look as well as the range of new features.

Remember the time when insurers were increasing prices, imposing even higher excesses and reducing conditions significantly IF you could get the cover you needed? Senior personnel at Phillips have been asked about the reasons for this significant shift – and in simple terms it was a case of demand far outstripping supply in a market place. In recent times however, we have seen the reverse. Prices have dropped and acceptability has grown – it has seemed that more and more options have become available to business owners. Is there a sting in the tail though... more

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