Risk Management

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General Information

Liability issues are involved when students are asked to go on field trips as part of their course requirements. Listed below are guidelines for the instructor to consider:

1. Before suggesting a field trip ask yourself if this is the best alternative for your students. Are there new methods that would provide the desired experience with less risk? If you, as an instructor, decide that the best alternative for your students is a field trip, then you should make it a course requirement and control it using good risk management practices.
   
   
2. Make all participants aware of any potential hazards. Even if the dangers are apparent to you, it is your responsibility to make sure that you notify the participants. You should have every participant sign the Warning, Waiver and Release of Liability  form.
   
   
3. The university has no liability when students go on a field trip unless a state vehicle or a rented vehicle is provided by the university.
   
   
4. If students are driving their own cars, their insurance is in effect.
   
   
5. If a professor is attending, they need to fill out a T-2 form.
   
   
6. The best suggestion is try to limit field trips of any type. Remember: if you attend, then it is considered a field trip.

See also: Field Trip Guidelines, Frequently Asked Questions.