Legal Awareness II - Managing in a Recreation Environment (OLSS)

Legal Awareness II - Managing in a Recreation Environment (OLSS)

This online self-study (OLSS) course must be completed in 30 days from enrollment date. Participants will receive an email confirming that they have been enrolled in the online course.

This training course is considered essential professional development for any recreation staff member with managerial or supervisory responsibilities in a recreation setting. The increase in health and safety responsibility being adopted by every Canadian workplace is merely a gateway to the many other similar regulatory and legislative responsibilities in our industry. No two recreation departments are designed the same. This course explores the diverse, and at times, overlapping legal obligations associated with recreation programs, services and infrastructure. Each operation must be carefully and individually analyzed to determine regulatory responsibility so that policy and procedures can be designed to both reflect legal obligations and industry best practices. This training session is designed as a check and balance to known regulated responsibilities based on member experiences over decades of operations. It will provide participants with sufficient knowledge to know when additional research is required or if outside professional support to better understand and meet compliance so that the operations risk of accountability is reduced. One of the most important skills of all senior recreation administrative staff is one of information broker to other internal administrative staff so that sound operational decisions can be made. Understanding that not knowing any legal responsibility should operational conduct or lack there of, be called into question legally is not a legal defence.

Topics include:

• An in-depth review of the Canadian legal system
  • The anatomy of a lawsuit
  • Understanding personal accountability at work
• The law as it relates to standard recreation facility operations
  • Standard operational requirements
  • Employment law
• The Codes, Acts and Regulation Landscape
  • Policy and procedures development and application
  • The role of industry best practice
• Documentation Management
  • Proving operational competency
  • The art of record keeping
  • The benefits of asset management
  • Meeting emergency management requirements
• Designing staffs competency pathway through professional development, certification and workplace specific training
  • How to get the people you need with the right skills, at no cost
  • What must be done once you find these people
• Creating and applying proven risk avoidance strategies
  • Designing operational tools that meet or exceed industry standards

Participants will leave with a renewed sense of importance of legislative compliance and an industry standard tool box of information that will play a significant role in helping maintain a safe work and play environment.

This course is worth 14 professional development credits towards recertification of any ORFA professional designation