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>>>>>>> A FRIENDLY REMINDER: if you click REPLY to this email, you will be sending an email to over 1400 subscribers. Please do so only if you wish to respond to everyone. The SCUDD Conference this year will be hosted by the University of Lincoln - 26-27 March ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [ Ah (twice over).......serendipity and also beat me to it! Following the recent and very informative 'Calculating Risk' PALATINE event at Plymouth, it became clear - as Dee Heedon has suggested - that it might be very useful if there was some central collation and sharing of H&S policy and practice in relation to assessing risk in regard to student performances and performance projects. A full report of the event + its associated papers and presentations will be published online as soon as we've written/compiled it. However some of the main discussion themes centred round (in no particular order): * Tutor responsibility/accountability * The necessity of risk (for creativity, development, learning, etc.) versus the need to minimise/avoid risk (in case of litigation, insurance pay outs, injury, death etc.) * The role of the insurance companies as (increasingly) the final arbiters of what can or cannot be undertaken, sometimes overruling the fully risk assessed 'go-ahead' of senior Health and Safety officers. * The actual or apparent hypocrisy of doing (as artists/performers)that which we may well have to tell our students they can't do or are not allowed to do. * Some of the myths and absurdities associated with risk avoidance and assessment that institutions and some H&S officers all too readily buy into. * That H&S concerns may be used to cloak moral objections to some art practices. (Others who attended may wish to add to/amend above). An either/or suggestion: 1: Colleagues post their current policies/practice to the list (pros: everyone gets to see it. cons: everyone gets to see it.) 2: Colleagues post their current policies to [log in to unmask] and we'll collate, compile and publish. Personally I think this is an important issue for everyone, and one we can't or shouldn't duck (esp. as ducking has attendant risks) so would go for 1. Best wishes Paul ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Dr. Paul Kleiman Deputy Director PALATINE -----Original Message----- From: SCUDD List at JISC [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Deirdre Heddon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ah - serendipity... On Thur/Fri last week, Plymouth Uni hosted a very useful Palatine workshop on 'Assessing Risk' - which was to do with Risk Assessment, not grading. One outcome might well be the collation of different practices and proformas. Dee Dr. Deirdre Heddon Reader Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies University of Glasgow G12 8QQ [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> 0141 330 6286 ________________________________ From: SCUDD List at JISC on behalf of P.M.Boenisch Sent: Mon 25/01/2010 17:23 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Student Risk Assessments: An enquiry about practices across the sector >>>>>>> A FRIENDLY REMINDER: if you click REPLY to this email, you will be sending an email to over 1400 subscribers. Please do so only if you wish to respond to everyone. The SCUDD Conference this year will be hosted by the University of Lincoln - 26-27 March ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [ While colleagues are exploring hanging down from falling buildings, would tutors of practical teaching/assessment as well as technical colleagues from Scudd institutions take a moment to respond to the enquiry below from our Production Manager: ________________________________ At the moment we have at Kent a large number of practical modules which result in practical / performance-based assessments. In line with Health and Safety regulations each module has a generic risk assessment within the individual module handbook. However each group of students are required to risk assess their work and then submit this document to the technician in charge of the specific module . It is then checked , logged and signed off. This becomes a major process especially when working with devised projects - which spans the majority of the programme. Each rehearsal may result in a different R/A. We are trying to streamline this process so that it doesn't take such a huge proportion of time for the technical team,staff and students and were wondering how other University Drama Depts deal with this. I would be grateful if you could email me regarding your system. Thank you All the Best Debs Metcalf Askew Production Manager [log in to unmask] School of Arts University of Kent Jarman Building Canterbury, Kent CT2 7UG UK www.kent.ac.uk/arts/drama Please consider the environment before printing this email. ______________ To join, leave or suspend list postings, visit www.scudd.org.uk/list ______________ ______________ To join, leave or suspend list postings, visit www.scudd.org.uk/list ______________ ______________ To join, leave or suspend list postings, visit www.scudd.org.uk/list ______________