Yachting New Zealand is the national body for sailing and boating in this country. The breadth of our activity stretches from the grassroots of sailing and boating through to the elite level of the sport.
The purpose of risk management is to apply a process to identify risks, set at an acceptable level for risk, and take steps to keep residual risk at the level.
Yachting New Zealand recognises that media exposure plays an important role in increasing public interest in the sport, attracting and servicing sponsors and profiling the organisation, and to this end one of the roles of Yachting New Zealand's Communic
The ELA Fund provides not-for-profit groups with financial assistance to advocate for an environmental issue of high public interest in resource management cases at the Environment Court, and at boards of inquiry constituted under the "Call in" provisio
Clubs should nominate a person(s) to keep up to date with matters that may pose a risk to local club activities. This could be in and on the water or the land where the club runs from.
Funding is essential to the survival and growth of clubs. It provides additional funds over other income such as memberships and is often the main source of income for many clubs.
An example of using the Risk Management system from Hazard Analysis through to developing a plan to manage those risks. For this example we are focused on the Club environment and rigging area.
These guidelines were developed by a nation-wide industry group representing manufacturers, importers, retailers, boating organisations, New Zealand Defence Force local government and central government.