CLARE DALLAT
Director of Risk Management
Outdoor Education Group

COMMUNICATING RISK TO PARENTS: Looking at recent research, literature & practical examples for improving risk communication processes

Have you, or your organisation/school critically analysed your risk communication processes?

Can parents really make an 'informed' decision about their child's participation?

Do you actively involve them in these processes, including their perceptions and understandings of risk?

Clare will explore these concepts through evaluating the risk communication literature and the findings of recent research which investigated how Victorian schools were currently communicating about risk to parents in order for parents to provide informed consent for their child's participation in outdoor education programs.

Practical examples will be provided as well as strategies to improve risk communication processes.

Clare Dallat is the Director of Risk Management and Porgrams at the Outdoor Educaiton Group, a non-profit organisation that serves 22,000 students annually.

Clare overseas the programming and operational functions of OEG, including their risk management program.

She has worked in the field of Outdoor Education for the past 13 years and has lead and administered programs for 7-84 year old clients.

Clare holds an MSc. in Risk, Crisis and Disaster Management from the University Leicester, UK and is a lead auditor in OH&S Systems.

She is currently based at OEG's National Base in Eildon, Victoria.