1. Sports Studies
Sport in Action
Considering Health & Safety Aspects

2. Considering Health & Safety Aspects
Session aims…
To understand the importance of public
liability insurance.
To understand, and to have begun, the process of
completing and acting upon a risk assessment.
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3. Considering Health & Safety Aspects
Public liability insurance…
• Designed to cover you should you or your organisation be accused of injuring someone or causing
damage to their property.
• You may find that affiliation to a governing body, league or franchise gives automatic cover.
Alternatively you will have to arrange cover yourself; this is especially true of commercial businesses in
the sport, dance and leisure sectors.
• You should make sure you understand what is covered by your policy as some are more
comprehensive than others.
• Some policies might cover your primary sporting, dance or leisure activities but not for any associated
social activities.
• Public Liability Insurance will often require you to implement a minimum level of risk management or
health & safety in order to reduce the likelihood and severity of a claim.
• It can be possible to insure your liability for a single event if that is all you require.
• Not normally designed to cover injury to your employees or volunteers (Employers Liability Insurance
and / or Personal Accident Insurance.)

4. Considering Health & Safety Aspects
Public liability insurance …
Your events?

5. Considering Health & Safety Aspects
Risk assessment…
• A risk assessment is simply a careful examination of what, in
your work, could cause harm to people, so that you can weigh
up whether you have taken enough precautions or should do
more to prevent harm.
• Workers and others have a right to be protected from harm
caused by a failure to take reasonable control measures.

6. Considering Health & Safety Aspects
Risk assessment…
Five steps to completing a risk assessment:
Step 1
Identify the hazards
Step 2
Decide who might be harmed and how
Step 3
Evaluate the risks and decide on precautions
Step 4
Record your findings and implement them
Step 5
Review your assessment and update if necessary

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Risk assessment…

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Conducting a risk assessment…
Step 1: Identify the hazards
Identify hazards by…
• walking around your workplace/venue
• asking your employees what they think
• checking manufacturers’ instructions
• working through your event chronologically, considering all the actions that will
take place and the risks, however small, associated with them.

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Risk assessment…

10. Considering Health & Safety Aspects
Conducting a risk assessment…
Step 2: Decide who might be harmed and how
Identify groups of people. Remember…
• some workers have particular needs
• people who may not be in the workplace all the time
• members of the public
• record how the hazard could cause harm.

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Risk assessment…

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Conducting a risk assessment…
Step 3: Evaluate the risks and decide on precautions
What are you already doing?
List what is already in place to reduce the likelihood of harm or make
any harm less serious.
What further action is necessary?

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Risk assessment…

14. Considering Health & Safety Aspects
Conducting a risk assessment…
Step 4: Record your findings and implement them
How will you put the risk assessment into action?
Who will complete the action?
When will it be done by?

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Risk assessment…

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Conducting a risk assessment…
Step 5: Review your assessment and update if necessary
• Put in place a date to review and revise your risk assessment.

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Risk assessment…

18. Considering Health & Safety Aspects
Session aims…
To understand the importance of public
liability insurance.
To understand, and to have begun, the process of
completing and acting upon a risk assessment.
1.
2.

19. Considering Health & Safety Aspects
Further information…
http://www.hse.gov.uk/
www.slideshare.net/mjb87
martin.bennett@study.beds.ac.uk