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Sports & Safety
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 organization 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 provides a sound framework on which to build.
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