Safe Practice in PE and Sport (New Edition)

Protect yourself, your pupils and your school

Keep yourself, and your school, up-to-date with the latest legislation. Understand the current landscape of health and safety in physical education and build a safer future for young people in school sport.

New... updated and fully rewritten this 2012 edition is streamlined and even easier to use now split into 5 sections.

When you need a quick answer... sport specific case studies and safe teaching checklists will simplify and make this book relevant to each reader. Not only you, but the whole physical education department will get essential answers quicker!

What's inside the best selling physical education title?

• Think Safe Practice - This section sets out the rationale for the book and gives explanations of the models included.
• Teach Safe Practice - Identifying and making decisions about the level of risk is the day-to-day responsibility of all physical education teachers. This section helps you build fundamental safety principles into your teaching and planning.
• Manage Safe Practice - When an accident or incident occurs, this section of the book will help you not only consider the immediate causes but also how the underlying management system should be analysed.
• Inspire Safe Practice - Safety education is about developing students' knowledge, skills and understanding of hazards, risks and precautions. This section tells you what you need to know to encourage students to protect themselves.
• Apply Safe Practice - This section outlines how the safe teaching and organisation principles are applied to specific areas of activity. Some of the areas include adventure, aquatic, athletics, combat activities, dance, movement and creative development.

Plus a FREE CDROM

The FREE CDROM contains even more ready-made forms and templates than previous editions. These handy electronic resources have been updated and make it easy and quick to implement all the systems and guidelines outlined within the book. Examples of the types of sample documents included are:

• risk assessments
• safety checklists
• accident forms
• consent forms
• policy statements
• code of conduct.

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Case Law Listed in the Text

Glossary of Terms

Abbreviations

Introduction

Terminology Used in the Handbook

Navigating this Handbook

Section 1: Basic Principles

1.1 Overview

1.2 Relevant Case Law

Section 2: Safe Teaching Principles

2.1 Overview

2.2 Safe Teaching: A Summary

2.3 Safe Teaching: Some Additional Information for the Teacher

Section 3: Safe Management Principles

3.1 Overview

3.2 A Generic Policy Statement for PES

3.3 Guidance to Develop and Manage Safe-practice Procedures in PES

3.4 Staff Management

3.5 Student Management

3.6 Equipment Management

3.7 Facility Management

3.8 Transport Management

3.9 Group Management

3.10 Programme Management

3.11 Risk Management

Section 4: Essential Learning about Safe Practice

4.1 Safety Education

4.2 Overview

4.3 What Safe-practice Principles Should Students Learn?

4.4 How Can Students Learn and Effectively Apply the Principles of Safe Practice?

Section 5: Applying the Principles to Specific Areas of Activity

5.1 Adventure Activities

5.2 Aquatic Activities

5.3 Athletics Activities

5.4 Combat Activities

5.5 Dance Activities, Movement and Creative Development

5.6 Games Activities 230

5.7 Gymnastics and Trampolining Activities 242

5.8 Health-related Physical Activities 248

5.9 Physically Active Play in the School Environment 253