The athletic director's safety checklist.The ability to communicate with coaches, faculty members, school administrators, and parents is paramount in successful risk management. People working are on the same page, with mutual goals, will ensure a successful risk-management program. Following is a chronological chron·o·log·i·cal also chron·o·log·ic adj. 1. Arranged in order of time of occurrence. 2. Relating to or in accordance with chronology. safety checklist for your clipboard A reserved section of memory that is used as a temporary holding area for data that is copied or moved from one application to another using the copy and paste and cut and paste (move) menu options. Each time you transfer something into the clipboard, the previous contents are deleted. or poster area. JUNE * 1 Review the school year: What were the problems? What went well and what has to be improved? Include the athletic accident forms. * 2 Review and summarize sum·ma·rize intr. & tr.v. sum·ma·rized, sum·ma·riz·ing, sum·ma·riz·es To make a summary or make a summary of. sum all the completed safety checklists from the school year. * 3 Have a final meeting with the sport safety committee and discuss future agenda items. * 4 Review new equipment and facility purchases with safety in mind. JULY * 1 Attend clinics with risk management courses. This is a time to catch up with your professional reading. * 2 Review your athletic department handbook. * 3 Encourage clinics, camps and inservice work for your coaches. AUGUST * 1 Inspection of all facilities and equipment. * 2 Meetings to set risk management agendas with administration, business manager, transportation coordinator, security, medical support and maintenance department. * 3 Have all risk-management forms available. * 4 Distribute the athletic department handbook, risk management manual, and appropriate rulebooks. The manual topics should include: * Program philosophy and coaching ethics ethics, in philosophy, the study and evaluation of human conduct in the light of moral principles. Moral principles may be viewed either as the standard of conduct that individuals have constructed for themselves or as the body of obligations and duties that a . * Coaching dress. * Supervision responsibilities. * First-aid responsibilities. * Emergency care procedures, including post accident follow-up. * Policies of the school. * Equipment care. * Practice dates and times. * League rules. * Review the legal duties of a coach. * Time responsibilities. * Eligibility rules eligibility rules, n.pl the conditions that define who may be entitled to dental benefits, when persons first become entitled to such benefits, and any provisions that determine how long an individual remains entitled to benefits. . * Meeting commitments. * Reporting of results and accident reports. * Transportation policies. * 5 Coaches orientation meeting includes safety issues and distribution of checklists to fall coaches. Basic risk management areas should include: * Establish goals. * Present each coach or leader with a copy of the master safety checklist and several copies of his/her sport specific checklist. * 6 Review credentials CREDENTIALS, international law. The instruments which authorize and establish a public minister in his character with the state or prince to whom they are addressed. If the state or prince receive the minister, he can be received only in the quality attributed to him in his credentials. and competencies of fall coaches. Make sure coaches hold valid first aid and CPR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Definition Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a procedure to support and maintain breathing and circulation for a person who has stopped breathing (respiratory arrest) and/or whose heart has stopped (cardiac certification. Also do this prior to the winter and spring season. * 7 Make sure that all pre-participation physical examinations are complete. * 8 Schedule the first of several sport safety committee meetings to be held throughout the year. * 9 Schedule and plan parent/player's information meeting. * 10 Check all auxiliary auxiliary In grammar, a verb that is subordinate to the main lexical verb in a clause. Auxiliaries can convey distinctions of tense, aspect, mood, person, and number. areas, such as locker Things commonly known as lockers include:
SEPTEMBER * "GOOO" (Get out of office). There is no better risk management technique than regular visitations and communications with your coaches. OCTOBER * Inspect selected programs using the sport specific checklist. Make additions and/or modifications if appropriate. NOVEMBER * Initiate similar pre-season procedures for the winter season (see August list). DECEMBER * 1 Review risk management details regarding tournaments, overnight trips and special events. * 2 Inspect selected sites using the sport specific checklist. JANUARY * 1 Ask for suggestions to improve the risk management program via a questionnaire. * 2 Check all spectator Spectator, English daily periodical published jointly by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele with occasional contributions from other writers. It succeeded the Tatler, a periodical begun by Steele on Apr. 12, 1709, under the pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff. areas with maintenance department. * 3 Check all signage in athletic areas. FEBRUARY * Initiate similar pre-season procedures for the spring season (see August list). MARCH * 1 Evaluate spring athlete fields and equipment. * 2 Check for hazards, such as holes, erosion and debris, and appropriate pesticide pesticide, biological, physical, or chemical agent used to kill plants or animals that are harmful to people; in practice, the term pesticide is often applied only to chemical agents. treatment. * 3 Check holiday practice and or travel plans for teams, including overnight trips. APRIL April: see month. * A time to do everything you did not have time to do during the year. MAY * 1 Review and plans for next year. * 2 Review proposed projects and ideas with the safety committee. * 3 New equipment purchases from reputable rep·u·ta·ble adj. Having a good reputation; honorable. rep  u·ta·bil suppliers.
* Check reconditioned re·con·di·tion tr.v. re·con·di·tioned, re·con·di·tion·ing, re·con·di·tions To restore to good condition, especially by repairing, renovating, or rebuilding. equipment. * Make sure all warning labels are in place. * Order medical supplies. * Order new uniforms. * Remove damaged and inadequate equipment. * 4 Selection of officials for next season. * 5 Review and update the risk management manual. * 6 Include risk management issues in next year's budget. Safety costs money, but far less than a claim or lawsuit. * 7 File all records. ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS * 1 Check your insurance program. Such programs must be part of the school's total program. * 2 Stay abreast of local and state association information regarding current risk management issues. * 3 The interviewing of new coaches should include risk management issues. * 4 Hold special in-service clinics for walk-on or volunteer coaches. * 5 Write everything down. It demonstrates your professionalism and makes your work easier the next time. * 6 Teach coaches the art and skill of supervision. Proper supervision is more than "just being there." * 7 Have a crisis management/crowd control plan. * Ask yourself what could turn into a major crisis and do I/we have a plan for that crisis? If a fire starts in the gym, with a packed house, during a night basketball game--what is the procedure? * 8 An athletic director's best risk management technique is visiting practices and contests on a regular basis. * Sport safety is no accident. It is planning to reduce the chance of injury. By Dr. Richard P. Borkowski, Ed. D., C. M. A. A. Sports and Recreation Safety Consultant, Narberth, PA (former A.D., Episcopal e·pis·co·pal adj. 1. Of or relating to a bishop. 2. Of, relating to, or involving church government by bishops. 3. Episcopal Of or relating to the Episcopal Church. Academy, Merion, PA) |
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