Choose a park or facility in which to do an assessment. This is not limited to Tucson. Feel free to explore a campground on Mt. Lemmon or a National Park. After you choose your location, provide a brief history of your site.

STEP 1: Choose a park or facility in which to do an assessment. This is not limited to Tucson. Feel free to explore a campground on Mt. Lemmon or a National Park. After you choose your location, provide a brief history of your site. (5 points)
STEP 2: Go to your site and Identify a list of potential risks. (5 points)
Walk around the site and make notes of things that are potential hazards, things that may need signage, things that may be attractive to children that could put them in danger of harm, etc. (In other words, these hazards may be environmental, infrastructure-related, programming related, or emergency care/crisis management hazards)
Remember, think about what we talked about regarding a standard of care (hint: this means the degree of care which a reasonably prudent person should exercise under the same or similar circumstances)
You should try to identify between 6-8 risk
STEP 3: Explain why each of these is a problem and what are the possible risk associated with each identified problem (10 points)
For this provide a short breakdown of each of the risk you identified and the potential harm that could come from this risk
For example, many times park and recreation facilities fail to post what to do in the case of an emergency. Think about this:
How is this a risk?
Would a reasonable person be able to anticipate this?
Is there an assumption of risk associated with the activity that the participant assumes (think about the sports spectator)
STEP 4: Evaluate both the likelihood of occurrence and the consequences of each risk based on a 1-5 scale with 1 being low occurrence/severity to 5 being extremely likely/very severe. (10 points).
Frequency and severity are likely to vary, meaning you may rate a risk management issue a 5 in frequency (very likely to occur), but a 1 in severity (the consequences are minor).
Ex. if there is a large hole on a youth soccer field the likelihood of an occurrence is probably high to extremely high for frequency of occurrence. I would evaluate this as a 4 or 5 on the frequency scale. However, the consequences or severity of injury that is likely to result is probably a 1 or 2. In other words, you are likely looking at an ankle sprain at least and a break at worst.
STEP 5: Treatment/Assessment: Your action plan for managing selected risks (avoid, reduce, transfer, retain) (15 points)
For each of the identified risks explain to me how, if you were the park and recreation director, you would manage the risk?
Would you shut the facility and/or program down (Avoid/Eliminate)?
Would you transfer the risk to a third party, employing them to manage the park (Transfer)?
Would you seek to reduce the risk? How? (Reduce)
Would you retain the risk and potential lawsuits that could result? (Retain)
For the last section, conclude your paper by telling me how you feel about the park/facility overall? Are they doing a good job protecting themselves? Should they be concerned? What are the basic step they need to take to improve their risk management protocols? Provide an overall grade
You can break down this assignment into four individual sections, (1) Introduction (2)Identification and explanation of risk;(3) Evaluation and explanation of why number was assigned; (4) Risk treatment and overall assessment. Scoring for each section is on the rubric below. The other 5 points will come from your sources (3-4 Sources, APA format)
See Rubric for Section Scoring Breakdown
Note: This assignment is hard for me to place a word/page count on. However, if you are properly assessing 6-8 risk, evaluating these risks, and providing a treatment/assessment, with your introduction, I would find it hard to do a good job in less than 5-7 pages. Bullets can be used, particularly in the first section where you are identifying the risk. However, remember if you use a bullet, you should have a short paragraph under each explaining this risk.