Sport Management - Session 12 - Considering Health and Safety Aspects

Sport ManagementThe Sport & Leisure IndustryConsidering Health & Safety Aspects

Considering Health & Safety AspectsSession aims…

To understand the importance of public liability insurance.

To understand, and to have begun, the process of completing and acting upon a risk assessment.

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Considering Health & Safety AspectsPublic liability insurance…

• Designed to cover you should you or your organisation be accused of injuring someone or causing damage to their property.

• You may find that affiliation to a governing body, league or franchise gives automatic cover. Alternatively you will have to arrange cover yourself; this is especially true of commercial businesses in the sport, dance and leisure sectors.

• You should make sure you understand what is covered by your policy as some are more comprehensive than others.

• Some policies might cover your primary sporting, dance or leisure activities but not for any associated social activities.

• Public Liability Insurance will often require you to implement a minimum level of risk management or health & safety in order to reduce the likelihood and severity of a claim.

• It can be possible to insure your liability for a single event if that is all you require.

• Not normally designed to cover injury to your employees or volunteers (Employers Liability Insurance and / or Personal Accident Insurance.)

Considering Health & Safety AspectsPublic liability insurance …

Your events?

Considering Health & Safety AspectsRisk assessment…

• A risk assessment is simply a careful examination of what, in your work, could cause harm to people, so that you can weigh up whether you have taken enough precautions or should do more to prevent harm.

• Workers and others have a right to be protected from harm caused by a failure to take reasonable control measures.


Five steps to completing a risk assessment:

Step 1Identify the hazards

Step 2Decide who might be harmed and how

Step 3Evaluate the risks and decide on precautions

Step 4Record your findings and implement them

Step 5Review your assessment and update if necessary

Considering Health & Safety AspectsConducting a risk assessment…

Step 1: Identify the hazards

Identify hazards by…

• walking around your workplace/venue

• asking your employees what they think

• checking manufacturers’ instructions

• working through your event chronologically, considering all the actions that will take place and the risks, however small, associated

with them.


Step 2: Decide who might be harmed and how

Identify groups of people. Remember…

• some workers have particular needs

• people who may not be in the workplace all the time

• members of the public

• record how the hazard could cause harm.


Step 3: Evaluate the risks and decide on precautions

What are you already doing?

List what is already in place to reduce the likelihood of harm or make any harm less serious.

What further action is necessary?


Step 4: Record your findings and implement them

How will you put the risk assessment into action?

Who will complete the action?

When will it be done by?


Step 5: Review your assessment and update if necessary

• Put in place a date to review and revise your risk assessment.

Considering Health & Safety AspectsSession aims…

To understand the importance of public liability insurance.

To understand, and to have begun, the process of completing and acting upon a risk assessment.

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2.

Considering Health & Safety AspectsTeamwork / leadership…

In addition to the project action plan, monitoring and evaluation, and marketing elements, this assignment requires you to consider

and act upon issues surrounding teamwork and leadership…

• Leadership styles (autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire).

• Blake and Mouton Management grid.

• How decisions were made (participative – non participative) (De Bono’s six thinking hats).

• McGregor’s 11 characteristics of effective teams.

• Lecioni’s 5 dysfunctions of an ineffective team.

• Social loafing (technical takeover / free-rider).

• Tuckman’s stages of team development.

Considering Health & Safety AspectsFurther information…

http://www.hse.gov.uk/

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