Managing Risks: A Handbook for the Recreation and Sport Professional
Publisher/Sponsor:
Sport Alliance of Ontario (SAO)
This handbook covers three main topic areas: Understanding Negligence, The Risk Management Process, and Tools and Techniques in Risk Management.
The first section, Understanding Negligence, provides definitions for Risk Management, Negligence, Duty and the Standard of Care, and Proximate Cause, and explains how these elements may combine to result in negligence, as well as how negligence and liability are related. Section Two, The Risk Management Process, describes the basic steps in risk management: Identifying Risks, Measuring Risks, and Controlling Risks. Section Three, Tools and Techniques in Risk Management, provides an in-depth look at waivers as well as briefly addressing the topics of volunteer training and the use of rules, warnings and signs at venues.
Managing Risks: A Handbook for the Recreation and Sport Professional provides an excellent overview of a topic every sport and recreation leader must understand. While several more comprehensive manuals exist, Managing Risks provides the right level of detail, illustrated by scenarios and examples from Canadian case law, to be distributed to every member of a Board of Directors and staff.
Publication Date:
1993
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