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Safety Activity Checkpoints

 

Safety Activity Checkpoints, provide in-depth safety information and tips that adult volunteers use for Girl Scout sports and activities; girls can also use these checkpoints to ready their group for a girl-led activity.

Daisies through Ambassadors can learn about safety and well-being when they earn the Safety Award. And, Brownies through Ambassadors can earn the First Aid Legacy badge.

 

Archery - updated 2011	Arts & Crafts	Backpacking - updated 2011
Bicycling	Canoeing - updated 2011	Caving
Challenge Courses - updated 2011	Climbing and Rappelling - updated 2011	Computer/Online Use
Cookie Product Sale - updated 2011	Cross Country Skiing	Downhill Skiing and Snowboarding - updated 2011
Fencing	Fishing	Geocaching
Group Camping - updated 2011	Hayrides	Hiking - updated 2011
Horseback Riding - updated 2011	Ice Fishing	Ice Skating
In-Line/Roller Skating - updated 2011	Kayaking - updated 2011	Orienteering
Other Land Sports	Outdoor Cooking - updated 2011	Parades and Other Large Gatherings
Playgrounds	Rowboating - updated 2011	Sailing - updated 2011
Scuba Diving	Segway	Skateboarding
Sledding, Tobogganing & Snow Tubing	Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)	Snorkeling
Snowshoeing	Surfing	Swimming
Theme Parks	Trip/Travel Camping	Tubing
Water Skiing and Wakeboarding	White-Water Rafting - updated 2011	Windsurfing

 

If Safety Activity Checkpoints do not exist for an activity you and the girls are interested in, be sure to check with GSGWM before making any definite plans with the girls in your group. A few activities are allowed only with written Council pre-approval and only for girls 12 and over, while some are off-limits completely:

 

• Caution: You must get written pre-approval from GSGWM for girls ages 12 and older who will operate motorized vehicles, such as go-carts and personal watercraft (driving or riding all-terrain vehicles and motor bikes is never allowed); use firearms (hunting is never allowed), take trips on waterways that are highly changeable or uncontrollable (Class V and higher watercraft trips are never allowed), or fly in noncommercial aircraft, such as small private planes, helicopters, sailplanes, untethered hot-air balloons and blimps (hang gliding, parachuting and parasailing are never allowed).
• Warning: The following activities are never allowed for any girl: shooting a projectile at another person (such as paintball), potentially uncontrolled free-falling (bungee jumping, hang gliding, parachuting, parasailing, and trampolining), creating extreme variations of approved activities (such as high-altitude climbing and aerial tricks on bicycles, skis, snowboards, skateboards, water-skis and wakeboards), hunting, riding all-terrain vehicles and motor bikes, and taking watercraft trips in Class V or higher whitewater.

 

These Safety Activity Checkpoints replace all previous versions of Safety Activity Checkpoints, including those found in Safety-Wise. The bound version of Safety-Wise is an outdated document and should no longer be used. Please return your copy to a GSGWM office for recycling.