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Mud Volleyball Risk Management Plan

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Mud volleyball is exactly what it sounds like, adding the risks of playing in muddy terrain to the already extensive risks of volleyball. As a Director of Recreation in the process of creating a risk management plan, my responsibility is to identify, assess, and mitigate all associated risks involved. For a one-day charity mud volleyball tournament to raise money for cancer, it is essential that I develop a plan that accounts for the outstanding risk factors, such as the terrain, weather, temperature, and the players’ health and safety, and ensure that all participants are aware of the risks before allowing them to play. While there are many underlying factors and categories of risk management, I am going to mainly cover the components of …show more content…

I would adopt the policy and procedures of USA Volleyball, the governing body of volleyball in the United States. For staffing, the event staff would include the tournament supervisor, faculty, refereeing officials, and all other event personnel. As it is a charity event to raise money, my goal is to have mostly volunteers working the event. As the director of recreation for this event, I will be the tournament supervisor, and monitor the weather conditions throughout the event. Campus police will have two officers working the event to help with directing traffic and parking, as well as being on standby if needed and monitoring the proceedings. Members of the volleyball team at the college will referee the individual games, and graduate athletic trainers will be at each game as first aid responders. By splitting the responsibilities among all staff and assigning different roles by what’s known as a transfer of risk, it becomes much easier to micromanage and oversee the event, as well as giving each person a direct responsibility to maintain and be accountable

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