Quality Assurance for Youth Travel
QUAYT is an acronym for Quality Assurance for Youth Travel. It is a manual whose purpose is to provide risk mitigation and management systems for organisers of youth and student groups, whether they are teachers, school boards, travel agencies, tour group organisers or people just concerned about minimizing risk when travelling.
The QUAYT System, developed by EBI Group and wholly owned by EBI Group Inc, approaches the issues of risk management by classifying it into five basic categories. They are as follows:
- Safety and Insurance
- Communication
- Training
- Commitment & Accountability
- Administration & Finance
Using these 5 broad categories as headline sectors, our system goes into detail on how the interested reader should approach a given situation. For example, under the category Safety & Insurance, we provide a basic Field Trip Safety Check List (p.21). Under the category Training, QUAYT provides a detailed list of factors in a matrix format on how to assess risks associated with food preparation in overseas or local trips and what are some of the steps the organiser can do to minimize that risk (p. 57).
In addition to providing specific steps for specific issues in preparation for a trip, QUAYT introduces the reader to the whole world of risk management in a comprehensive manner. It covers the issues of Risk management Strategy & Policy (p. 8) as well as providing an extensive list of key terms and words related to Risk Management (p. 9 and Annex B).
QUAYT can be used as a reference manual for the reader who has opted to choose our EBI Self- Assessment tool. Alternatively, if your organisation decides it wishes EBI Group to do a complete audit of your risk management capabilities and preparedness, our team will work with you and show you how to best use the QUAYT manual as part of risk management audit.
EBI Group has undertaken considerable market research prior to launching this system. We recognize there are other risk management models on the market, but we are convinced this QUAYT system is the most comprehensive risk management system on the market whose primary target market is the youth and student travelling groups. For example, we are the first ones to offer a full quality assured way on how to manage and mitigate Youth/Educational Group trips. Secondly, at the heart of our system are more than 150 unique Youth trip risks, or not so unique risks but which have different impacts on Youth groups in travel and that makes them so special and hard to control/mitigate.
Click the link below to see a comparative table as to how to deal with major food risks for YOUTH GROUPS in various levels of depth.
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