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Title: Creating a Safe Coaching Environment
Code: B23741
Author: Paul Hackett and Shenagh Hackett
Year: 2004
Length: 92 pages
Price: £9.99 
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Overview:

All coaches need to know how to create a safe coaching environment. This title aims to help you protect your athletes and yourself. Includes information on how to create a safe coaching environment, legislation, health and safety, negligence and duty of care, along with useful sample risk assessment forms.

Contents:
  • Section One – The Foundations of a Safe Coaching Environment

    1.0 Introduction
    1.1 Legislation

  • Section Two – Health and Safety Law

    2.0 Introduction
    2.1 Employers
    2.2 Volunteers
    2.3 Coaches

  • Section Three – Negligence and Duty of Care

    3.0 Negligence3.1 Employer’s Duty of Care
    3.2 The Common Duty of Care

  • Section Four – Risk Assessment

    4.0 Introduction
    4.1 Key Terms
    4.2 Risk Assessment Systems
    4.3 Severity Ratings4.4 Likelihood Ratings
    4.5 Events and Outcomes
    4.6 Common Sense
    4.7 Assessing Risk
    4.8 Risk Control
    4.9 Conclusion

  • Section Five – Summary

    5.0 Introduction
    5.1 Policy
    5.2 Organisation
    5.3 Planning
    5.4 Measuring Performance
    5.5 Auditing and Reviewing Performance
    5.6 The Role of Coaches

  • Appendices

    Appendix A Sample Letter to Prospective Performers
    Appendix B Sample Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PARQ)
    Appendix C Sample Risk Assessment Issues
    Appendix D Integrated Risk Assessment Form
    Appendix E Accident Reporting
    Appendix F Criminal Records Bureau – Guidelines
    Appendix G Further Reading
    Appendix H sports coach UK Contacts
    Appendix I Other Useful Contacts


About the Author:

The authors are the owners of Top Lodge Leisure Limited, the health and safety specialists in training, consultancy and project management, the first in the sports and recreation industry to obtain registration from NEBOSH. Within the Sport and Recreation Sector Top Lodge are the first and only accredited centre for the NEBOSH General Certificate in Occupational Safety and Health in the United Kingdom.
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