Maintaining a Healthy and Safe Sporting Environment
In order to keep a sporting place such as a leisure centre safe, many providers look into, staff training and development, risk assessment and also emergency procedure protocols. These are in place to help to keep a healthy and safe sporting environment and reduce the risks as much as possible.
Staff Training & Development:
Staff training is when you train to improve the performance or knowledge of the employees or workforce or a company.
Staff training is done to make sure that health and safety in the workplace is effective and that there are as many risks reduced or removed as possible risks. This also involves training in emergency situations so that injuries are prevented and staff
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These would then be considered and evaluated to decide whether to take part in the activity/task.
For example, if you were going to organise a football match on the astro outside the leisure centre then you would need to check for any risks that could possibly happen during the match. So as an example you would need to check the surface, to see if there are any objects/litter that could harm or trip someone. Also one more example, you could check your footwear so that you aren’t wearing studs that are dangerous.
They outline issues that can harm individuals and then find ways to resolve them. It helps protect players/athletes from the chance of injury during sports. In some sports/situations such as Rugby will need longer and more detailed risk assessments because there is a higher chance of injury. They reduce common risks that are harmful to people as well as educating others of the risks involved. This allows them to understand various situations and what risks are involved. Risk assessments can disrupt the enjoyment of activities due to it being too dangerous. This can lead to people not participating in the sport because it is no longer enjoyable. The main advantages of doing a risk assessment is that you reduce the likelihood of possible risks, you become aware of the possible risks and also you can have a plan of what to do if the risk occurs, however a risk assessment never actually completely removes the chance of a risk, there will
The booklets must be kept on the school premises. Risks should be assessed periodically, following an accident, on the introduction of any new process/equipment and also any change in circumstances. Educational visits also require a written risk assessment. There is a folder of the most frequently used venues in the staff room, containing risk assessments. There is also a folder containing risk assessments for each group in the same place. All staff and group leaders must ensure that they have read these documents before embarking on a trip and must sign to acknowledge this each time they take children on a trip as part of the signing out procedure.
It is important to take into account the health and safe requirements of all pupils before planning or starting any activity, ensuring that the environment is free of hazards and the children can play and learn safely.
Within my role I have to compile risk assessments that recognise the choice and independence of residents, whilst ensuring the safety of residents and staff members. The risk assessment may be regarding social activities that may involve equipment or actions, which could cause harm or injury.
The purpose of risk assessment is not to remove risks, but to take reasonable steps to reduce them. The process involves looking at the risk, and considering what can be done to make it less likely that the risk will develop into a reality. This can be done through implementing policies and codes of practice, acting in individual’s best interests, fostering culture of openness and support being consistent, maintaining professional boundaries and following systems for raising concerns.
* Risk assessments – Local and governing authorities make compulsory the use of risk assessments. Risk assessments are carried out to evaluate any potential hazards that may
Once a risk assessment has been carried out, and the hazards have been identified, then a method statement can be developed which takes account of the identified hazards. The method statement should be read and understood by all members of staff and volunteers who are directly involved with supervising the children with that activity.
I ensure staff are kept safe within their day to day work by ensuring that they work to Health and Safety Law and Legislation and that this is kept up to date. I ensure risk assessments are in place and reviewed regularly for any changes or updates. I ensure staff are all treated equally and are given the same choices.
Other possible hazards are doors and exit points. Doors should have a spring device to close on themselves once they’re open to minimise anyone leaving without being notices, secure stair-gates should be fitted at both ends to minimise falls, and the main entrance should have a secure lock/ buzzer system to minimise unlawful entry or exit.
Risk assessments can help address dilemmas between rights and health and safety concerns by helping reduce any risks created by undergoing certain tasks, risks assessments are not in place to prevent an individual doing things that they want to do, they are in place to concentrate on the risk factors and to look at any other ways to reduce the risk of the task in hand.
4.3: To carry out a risk assessment first of all you need to identify the hazards, then decide who might be harmed and how. Then evaluate the risks and decide on precaution and then record your findings and implement on them. After this is done review your assessment and update if necessary.
They are an independent regulator and act in the public interest to reduce work-related death and serious injury across Great Britain’s workplaces
Risks assessments will identify any hazards and/or dangers and who might be harmed and how this may happen, allow the risks to be evaluated and check if the precautions are
Physical Hazards: can result when performing various activities around the workplace. They can occur from the equipment that we use, such as the pumps trucks, electric pump trucks or from the trash compactor. Employees need to be trained on how to properly use the different equipment to ensure that they have sufficient knowledge on how to operate them safely. The training allows for individuals to understand what to do when there is a malfunction with the equipment and how they need to be properly reported and documented, as well as locked away so that others do not use the broken equipment.
It is important when planning and setting up learning activities that indoor and outdoor environments are hazard free and that staff and pupils will be able to work safely. The following factors must be taken into account when planning healthy and safe indoor and outdoor environments and services;
Facilities – we check the facilities every day for any hazards or dangers such as wet floors/hall way and any hazards that could cause accidents such as tripping over objects or slipping on wet floors. We must make sure all exits are clear and accessible in case of a fire alarm or emergencies. We check the indoor/outdoor environment