Session Description

Effective risk management is about much more than spotting hazards or stepping in when something goes wrong. It depends on a range of instructor skills, including observation, anticipation, judgement, communication, adaptation, intervention and reflection.

In this two-hour masterclass, Ray explores how instructors can balance safety with learning, giving learners enough responsibility to develop while still knowing when to support, prompt, intervene or take control.

The session looks at proactive, supportive and reactive risk management, how responsibility can be shared, and how instructor input should change as situations develop. It also considers the role of teaching, coaching, feedback and reflection within effective risk management.

Sometimes the learner needs space to think. Sometimes they need guidance. Sometimes they need a clear instruction. The skill is recognising what is needed, and when.

Using practical lesson examples, Ray will explore common risk-management weaknesses, the dangers of over-instruction and under-instruction, and how instructors can manage challenge without either removing useful learning opportunities or allowing risk to build unnecessarily.