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Office of Environment and HeritageDraft Risk Assessment - 10 December 2012

Supplementary Pest Control in Parks Program

SUMMARY OF KEY FINDINGS

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This risk assessment has identified the following risks associated with the SupplementaryPest Control In Parks Program.

1. The risk of a projectile/s causing death or a serious injury to people (bullets &arrows)

2. Confrontation

3. Risk to Hunters

4. The risk of damage to property owned by people in point 1

5. Environmental Impacts

6. Cultural Heritage

7. Impacts on Visitation

8. Credibility (impacts on the NPWS brand)

9. Interruption to Park operations (NPWS & utilities etc)

10. Animal welfare

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Risk assessment in relation to risk 1 projectile injury

(The risk of projectile/s causing death or a serious injury to people).

It ranked the consequence of this risk as major and the likelihood as possible for some usergroups (OEH workers, Visitors and R-licensed hunters), giving a risk rating of High.

Risk assessment in relation to Risk 2 - confrontation

(The risk of confrontation associated with the Supplementary Pest Control In Parks Program)

It rated likelihood as possible for hunter related confrontations and likely for public-authorised officer conflicts (based on level of public protest), giving a risk rating of high tomedium for confrontation incidents.

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Risk assessment in relation to Risk 7 visitation impact

(The risk of the Supplementary Pest Control In Parks Program having adverse impacts onvisitation)

It ranked the consequences of all these risks components as moderate to high and likelihoodof possible to probable, giving a risk rating of medium for visitor experience and high for

visitor perceptions and commercial impacts.

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Risk assessment in relation to Risk 10 animal welfare impact

(The risk of the Supplementary Pest Control In Parks Program causing increased adverseanimal welfare outcomes)

This risk was divided into 2 classes (wounding of animals due to low hunter accuracy andthe welfare risk associated with bows. These sub-risks were evaluated for theSupplementary Pest Control In Parks Program using the OEH Risk Matrix. It ranked theprobability of both risks as possible

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Post Incident Controls the purpose of post incident controls is to reduce theconsequences when serious incidents arise.

However for very serious injuries and fatalities the capacity of first aid to alter outcomes postevent will be limited.

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The following controls were considered but have not been incorporated as standardcontrols. They may be used in some specific circumstances in Zone B and Zone Aareas where warranted by the level of risk.

Use of exclusion areas along roads and walking trails and setting of minimumdistances between hunters and other users based on projectile danger zones

The requirement for hunters to have a competency equal or equivalent to thatspecified in the OEH firearms manual for other firearms users on park

The requirement for hunters to operate under the direct supervision of OEH staffwhile undertaking general hunting operations