TUFSS Registration and UTas Field Trips

Field Trip - Registration and Safety

 

In the interests of safety, all field workers, including staff, students, visitors and volunteers, must register:
  1. where they plan to go
    3. what they plan to do
before going out on field trips.

 

 

Snorkeling and diving

No one is permitted to SCUBA dive or snorkel unless the University Dive Officer has specifically cleared him or her for that activity....read more

School Vehicles

Students are not permitted to drive the vehicles until they have taken a short induction course with Adam Stephens. No vehicles are to be driven off-road at any time, unless the driver has passed an accredited 4WD course, and lodged details of this with Adam Stephens....read more

 

 

Field Operations

All field trip participants should have a working familiarity with the UTas Field Activity Policy.pdf and must individually complete a TUFSS registration (contact details, where they are going,etc) before they will be permitted to go on UTas field trips.
A field trip may involve walking, driving, flying, swimming, boating, snorkeling, diving, 4WDing etc.anything at all and be:

  • part of formal courses
  • associated with researchers or research projects
  • a volunteering situation
  • informal diving recreation associated with any UTas field course or activity.

(Our field activity definition does not include inter-campus travel, meetings off-site or attendance at conferences.)

TUFSS - Tasmanian University Field Safety System,

An on-line field trip registration system which includes:
  • Individual Contact Details
  • Medical Details
  • Snorkel Diving permissions
    • Until you are specifically cleared for snorkeling, you are not permitted to SNORKEL DIVE, even for recreation, during UTas field trips.
  • SCUBA Diving permissions
    • You are NOT permitted to do SCUBA or other diving operations at any time while on a UTas field trip unless you have been specifically cleared to do so by the UTas Diving Officer.
  • Statement of Understanding
    • An acknowledgement that you have read and understand your responsibilities

TUFSS REGISTRATION

Information on TUFSS will remain strictly confidential, medical details will only be relevant in case of emergency.

Log in with your standard UTas email Username and Password. You will then be asked if you want to create a new personnel record. Click yes to view the Personnel Registration screen.

If you have registered previously you will need to click the 'Edit' button to enter new/update information.

At any time during the data entry process you can save the record as a draft (a good idea to do this after entering data on each tab!), and once your registration has been completed, you should click on the “Save and Lodge' button at the bottom of the record, to submit it for approval. Lodging it will prompt the system to send an e-mail to the UTAS Field and Diving Officer, notifying him that your registration is awaiting approval. Simply saving the registration without lodging it for approval will leave it on the system as a draft (with no e-mail notifications generated).

 

To register go to TUFSS site,https://fomsprod.its.utas.edu.au/ (must be accessed from within the University network).

Divers One tab
Details One tab Details Two tab Medical Tab
There are seven data entry tabs as follows:
    1. Details one;
    2. Details two,
    3. Medical,
    4. Divers One ;
    5. DiversTwo
    6. Statement of Understanding (SOU) ,
    7. Office Use only

The first three tabs:

must be completed by ALL Field trip participants. Even those not planning any swimming, diving or boating. (don't worry about adding your blood type, if unsure what it is.)

 

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SNORKEL Divers and intending SCUBA divers must be complete this tab*(to snorkel dive on a UTas project OR for recreation during a UTas field trip) .

 

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SCUBA divers must complete both Divers One and Divers Two tabs (to SCUBA Dive for a project OR for recreation during a UTas field trip).

All intending snorkelers and SCUBA divers must also contact the UTas Diving Officer and provide evidence of their dive experience and training:

  • dive qualifications
  • copies of their logbooks
  • attend a dive induction with the UTas Diving Officer.

Diving Officer, Simon Talbot's office is near the base of the stairs in the School of Zoology, Level 1.

 

Statement of Understnding tab

All field trip participants should complete relevant fields on this tab and click to say they have read and accept the 'Statement of Understanding' .

Field Project Registration

An essential part of the project design for field work will involve risk management:

  • identifying risks inherent in the fieldwork
  • implementing control mechanisms required to reduce these risks to an acceptable level

Once have had your individual Personnel Registration approved on TUFSS, Field Project Registration forms are accessible from menus on your Personnel home page. Registrations for a Project will be the field work participants' responsibility (although Simon Talbot or Adam Stephens can certainly be consulted for assistance!)

NB: Early each semester Simon will conduct a session on Risk Assessments .

Field Project Registrations and Risk Assessments MUST be completed to a satisfactory standard well before departure on field trips, and may be assessed as part of your course/degree.