Time: You can start your studies within a week after enrolment. The estimated completion time for this course is two months. Please note! The course opens and you can start your studies 19 January 2026!
Enrollment for the spring courses is open till 14 June 2026, and you can start your studies within a week after enrollment. This course is also available in fall – enrollment opens in June and the first start is in August 2026.
Please note that lecturers will not provide guidance or assess courses between 1 June and 16 August 2026.
Place: Online studies
Scope: 5 ECTS credits
Target group: Anyone interested in the subject
This course is completed independently online on Learn digital learning environment.
Please notice that only students with a Finnish social security number (i.e. a personal identity code) can start their studies on Xamk Pulse’s courses. You can read more here.
Credited in degree at Xamk: All bachelor level degrees
Area of competence mentioned in Curriculum: Optional studies
Enrolment by 13 December 2026, when there are approximately 2 months left to complete the course.
Fee: Free of charge
You can enroll for Open UAS studies for a maximum of 50 credits per semester. Enrolments that exceed 50 credits will be removed in the order of enrolments.
Xamk’s degree students who are present or absent cannot enroll for Xamk Pulse’s courses. Enrolments by Xamk’s degree students will be removed without separate notification.
Learning outcomes:
- Where do you find information, models and guides about tourism risks and safety issues?
- What kind of risks and safety issues are involved in tourism? What are the duties and responsibilities of entrepreneurs and staff in tourism field?
- How do you perform a risk assessment?
- What kind of safety documents are required in hospitality business?
- How do you work responsibly and in compliance with safety norms?
Contents:
The course is designed to take future tourism service providers through the complete process of setting up and running a safety management system in their operation of guided experiences. Delivered in a progressive and practical format, this program exposes participants to what they need to know about risk management and safety practices.
Study course themes:
- Risks and safety issues, involved in tourism.
- Tourism safety guidelines.
- Safe tourism in Finland.
- Fire prevention and emergency safety services.
- Basics of food safety, sanitation and workplace hygiene.
Methods:
Course is completed independently online on Learn digital learning environment. In each themes, you will find a theory part related to the topic. Themes are clarified and deepened during the topics and independently by familiarising yourself with the study material.There are no live lectures or group work in this course.
Each course topic contains a quiz or test. Four quizes and 2 tests are done in the course. At the end of the course there is the final course test. All tests and quizzes are graded automatically and they are time-limited.
A five-credit course corresponds to approximately 135 hours of student workload. The number of hours is theoretical and varies depending on the student’s effort.
Study material:
Learning material is on the Learn platform. Recommended study books:
- Piekarz M., 2015 Risk and Safety Management in the Leisure, Events, Tourism and Sports Industries.
- Wilks J., 2021 Tourist Health, Safety and Wellbeing in the New Normal.
- Michael J. Fagel, 2021 Principles of Emergency Management and Emergency Operations Centers.
Assessment:
Accepted/Failed
We will inform you about the implementation of the course by email. If you do not receive the message, please also check your spam!
Additional information on enrolment
Xamk Pulse, openstudies@xamk.fi.
Cancellation
If you do not start your studies, please inform us so that we can remove you from the course. This way, there will be no record of the course you did not complete. Cancellations should be sent to avoinamk@xamk.fi.
Transcript of records
The teacher has one month to give a grade after the student has completed all learning tasks. We will send you an electronically signed transcript of records within about a week after you have received the grade in the Peppi system. The transcript serves as a document if, for example, you are applying for credit for your studies at another university. Studies can also be credited at Xamk if you come to us as a degree student. See more on our website Information on Open UAS, Xamk Pulse studies.
This course is based on the curricula of Xamk’s degree programmes and the Finnish credits are fully compatible with the ECTS.
Please note that there can be changes in the course details in terms of the timetable and teachers, for example.
South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences is audited by the Finnish Education Evaluation Centre (FINEEC).