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Sport should be safe and enjoyable. It will never be risk free,
but we can provide a healthier and safer environment with good
planning. Sports safety planning and implementation is not difficult,
it's common sense. It's not a one-off event, but a cycle of continuous
improvement. Sports safety planning and management can help to
prevent or reduce the severity of injuries sustained by participation
in sport, recreation or physical activity.
Every sport or recreation organisation has the responsibility
to provide a safe environment for players, coaches, referees and
spectators, not only to reduce the potential of injury, but also
to meet legal duties of care. Risk management planning (of which
a sports safety plan is a component) is becoming an increasingly
common practice in the sport, recreation and physical activity
sector. A documented sports safety audit followed by the development
and progressive implementation of a sports safety plan can provide
a sound framework on which to build.
The following 2 resources are "tools" to assist you to begin
the process of planning for sports safety.
1) "How to Become a SMARTPLAY Club " resource
Content : Provides a basic sports safety audit approach, a step
by step process to begin your sports safety planning and a simple
case study example.
booklet.pdf (204kb)
2) "SMARTPLAY Guidelines for Clubs, Associations and Facilities"
Content : Can serve dual purposes;
1) can be used as a basic sport safety audit tool and,
2) provides a generic sports safety plan framework that your organization
can use and adapt to your sport, recreation, physical activity and
/or facility.
This resource includes 10 existing preventative medicine and safety
policies (attachments)
that supplement different sections of the plan. (see below)
Guidelines (374kb)
The 10 generic attachments are :
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