Policy HICA Attachment A: Risk Levels for Field Trips, Off-Campus Activities and Student Travel

Green/Low Risk – Activities permitted providing that established divisional policies and procedures are followed. • Court sports • Hay rides • (in pool with lifeguard • Cross-country (excluding • Hiking on trails present) backcountry) • Horseback riding (trail riding) • Swimming (in hotel pool with • Curling • Ice skating direct supervision of staff) • Cycling • Low risk physical injury activities • only in events • • include discus, shot put, and high • • Sleigh rides jump • Gymnasium programs (common) • Sports field programs (common) • Extra-curricular sports (football, • (floor or raised less • camp-outs , rugby, ) under than 1 foot) direct supervision of coach • Slides/Water Park

AMBER/Moderate Risk – Planning for risk-reduction must be documented and plans must be followed. • Airplane rides (not commercial • Ice fishing • /skateboarding parks flights) • Ice hockey • Skiing (alpine) or • Amusement Parks • (field, box) • Slip-n-slide • • Cross-country • Track and Field only in events • Astrojump (“green trails) include javelin, and pole vault • in moving water of • Off road (all-terrain vehicles) • Tobogganing, , crazy carpet, grade 2 rapids or less • where able and on a slope of less than • Cheerleading (aerobatic) to touch the bottom and still breath five metres in height or with an • (with direct supervision of staff) incline of less than 35 degrees • • Ringette (ice) • Trampoline (not raised and with 1 • Fireworks Display • Roller blading/in-line skating student) • Go-karting • Ropes courses (high and low) • Wall- • Gymnastics (bar,vault,rings) • • • Scuba in swimming pool • Weightlifting (competitive) • Winter camp-outs

RED/High Risk – Prohibited Activities • American gladiator style events • above the tourist start at • of motorized watercraft • Canada Olympic Park • Rifle ranges or firearm activities • • Mechanical bull riding, or • Rodeos • simulated mechanical rodeo events • in open water • Canoeing in moving water greater • (BMX racing) • Skydiving than grade 2 rapids • Motorcycling of any nature • Snowmobiling of any nature • • Motorized watercraft (except • Tobogganing, tubing, crazy carpet, • Demolition derbies commercial craft) bobsledding, and sledding on a • • Mountain biking Jumping slope of greater than five meters • Dunk tanks • (lift height or with an incline greater • Gymnastics (Aerial) access, black diamond cross than 35 degrees • High Platform Diving (i.e. Max country, or if can’t ride up) • Trampoline (raised or with more Bell) • Mountain/ (outside than 1 student) • Hiking in hazardous areas, such as top rope or lead climbing) • W. Coast Trail • Open water swimming where • Winter biathlon with live • Horse jumping unable to touch the bottom and still ammunition • Hot air ballooning breath • White water in moving • • Orbing/Zorbing (human hamster water greater than grade 2 rapids ball) • Ziplining • , or war games