Templates & Guidelines
This page provides free, openly accessible tools for guides, outdoor educators, operators, schools, parents, and members of the public. Each document is designed to help you make informed decisions, improve safety practices, and better understand what quality and professionalism look like in the adventure and outdoor education sector.
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Here you'll find:
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Risk and safety guidelines for choosing adventure operators and outdoor venues
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Best-practice templates to support planning, decision-making, and participant care
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National reference documents such as the SA AIA Environmental Policy
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Resources for both professionals and the general public
These materials are created through industry collaboration and reviewed by subject-matter experts. They are not enforceable standards, but practical tools to support safer experiences, uplift professionalism, and empower anyone engaging with adventure activities in South Africa.
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Use them, share them, adapt them for your context — and help us build a stronger, safer adventure sector together.
A publicly accessible guideline promoting responsible, sustainable, and respectful outdoor practice across all adventure environments in South Africa. Free to use and share.
A quick-reference safety checklist designed for schools and youth organisations when booking accommodation, transport, catering, or activity providers for excursions. This guide helps you ask the right questions and request the right evidence to ensure your provider is compliant, insured, and risk-aware.
An essential guide to help schools, teachers, and parents ensure safety during water-based outings. Includes tips on swimming competence, supervision, emergency planning, and post-trip debriefing. Developed as part of SA AIA’s commitment to safer learning outside the classroom.
A poster highlighting the benefits of working with registered SA AIA members. Learn what makes our members stand out, from strict ethics to professional registration. Great for display in schools, camps, and activity centres.
This Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) is a file containing all the information needed to
run a trip.
This document provides general good practice guidance and should be read alongside the relevant Activity Good Practice Guideline. The general guidance highlights considerations for ALL activities whereas the activity guidelines highlight considerations SPECIFIC to the activity addressed. BOTH specific and general guidance should be referred to when planning an activity.
This good practice guideline is specific to Overnight Camping activities and is designed to be used in conjunction with the General Guidance for Organised Outdoor Activities and Overnight Camping Planning Template (coming soon).
The guidance in this GPG is for overnight camping in a shelter of some description (tent, fly, bivy, cave, or hut), with or without road access. it includes camping that occurs on the SANParks campsites, school grounds, private land and rural land. There may or may not be permanent toilets, tap water, a power supply or fixed (landline) communications.
