Medium Risk, Require Medical Declarations
The medium risk with medical declarations is intended for fieldwork where the risk level is elevated by the location or activity requiring additional controls, and one of the risk controls is to identify risk related to participants pre-existing medical conditions.
To protect the privacy of participants medical information, the fieldwork leader will only be able to access the medical declaration report once access is approved by the fieldwork coordinator. Once the fieldwork plan is created and the participant list populated, either automatically based on enrolments in a course, or manually, the plan will then be submitted to the coordinator. If the coordinator confirms that access to medical records by the fieldwork leader is valid, they can then progress the plan to the review state where the leader can access the medical declarations report and continue to edit and complete the fieldwork plan.
The leader will then select a fieldwork approver. Normally this would be someone within their school or faculty. The fieldwork approver will have completed a fieldwork approver induction that is approved by their executive leader. This approval includes the areas of delegation that the fieldwork approver is authorised to approve. For example if the fieldwork involves work in an alpine area, the fieldwork approver should have ‘alpine environment’ an a delegated area of approval. If the approver is satisfied that the plan is appropriately detailed to identify and mitogate risk insofar as is reasonably practible, they then approve the plan and the plan moves to the approved state. If the plan requires more detail the approver can refer it back to the plannig state