AAIAC

The Adventure Activities Industry Advisory Committee

The Adventure Activities Industry Advisory Committee (AAIAC) is supported by the Central Council of Physical Recreation (CCPR) and SkillsActive.  The AAIAC is representative of a wide range of stakeholders from the UK adventure activities sector.  It works with the industry to identify and disseminate good practice, and to advise government and its agencies accordingly.

AAIAC was established in 1996 by the Health and Safety Commission as a standing Industry Advisory Committee.  Initially, much of AAIAC’s work was concerned with the licensing and regulation of outdoor activity centres post-enactment of The Activity Centres (Young Persons’ Safety) Act 1995.  AAIAC in its current form still has an observer in permanent attendance from the Adventure Activities Licensing Service, the body presently responsible for overseeing the 1995 licensing legislation, although AAIAC's remit now extends far beyond these matters within the industry.

AAIAC now operates as a free-standing UK-wide body.  It acts as the Technical Reference Group for SkillsActive’s outdoors sub-sector.  Its members are appointed via industry recommendation and consultation, and represent outdoors sector ‘constituencies’.  This helps to ensure that good practice is both gathered from, and communicated to as wide a spectrum of the UK industry as possible.

Recent work carried out by AAIAC includes:

• The successful lobbying of the Health and Safety Executive on behalf of the industry following concerns about the impact of the Work At Height Regulations 2005 on adventurous activities within the ‘outdoor workplace’;
• The ongoing development of a non-statutory accreditation/licensing scheme for the outdoors sector.

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