Risk Management for Sporting Organisations

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Risk Management for Sporting Organisations

• HM543 Introduction to Sport Management
• Week 12 Lecture 1
• Presenter Sue Brown

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Presentation Topics

• Impact of sporting injuries
• Legal implications
• Identifying sporting injury risks
• Analyse identify sport safety strategies
• Development implementation of a Risk Management
  Plan

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Impact of Sporting Injuries

• Cost the community approximately 1 Billion in
  direct indirect costs
• Eye injuries - 28 million
• 21 of injury costs in Victoria
• Impact on sport club
• Performance
• Finances
• Insurance

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Legal Implications

• Duty of Care
• Negligence

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Risk in the sports setting?

• Types of risks
• Financial
• Reputation
• Legal
• Physical
• Injury or property damage

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Risk Identification

• Risk identification involves determining.
• Important the risk identification process is..

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Risk Identification Process

• Assess what things can happen
• Determine what is the of them happening
• Ascertain what will be the . to the
  organisation/persons if they do happen

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Risk Assessment - Likelihood

• Almost certain
• Likely
• Possible
• Unlikely
• Rare

• will probably occur several times per year
• Highly probably, likely to occur once per year
• Reasonable likelihood that it may occur over a 5
  year period
• Could occur over a 5-10 year period
• Very unlikely but not impossible, unlikely over a
  10 year period

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Risk Assessment - Consequence

• Catastrophic
• Major
• Moderate
• Minor
• Negligible

• Organisation severely affected
• Organisation threatened or partially severely
  affected
• Considerable efforts to rectify
• Easily remedied with some effort achievable
• Very small impact, rectified by normal processes

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Risk Assessment Priority Scale

• Extreme
• Major
• Medium
• Minor
• Nil

• Matrix used to combine the likelihood and
  consequences ratings
• Highlights risk priorities
• Prioritises resources to manage risk

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Risk Assessment - Administrators

• Failing to ensure safe facilities
• Failing to provide adequate warning
• Allowing events to continue in extreme conditions
• Failing to arrange adequate crowd control

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Risk Assessment Coaches, Trainers, Team
Managers

• Failing to warn players of dangers inherent in
  the sport
• Failure to ensure players are trained to specific
  fitness and skill requirements
• Equipment (playing protective gear)
• Treatment of injured player
• Playing conditions (ground surface, weather etc)

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Risk Management Strategies

• Identify options to reduce risks
• Determine potential benefits costs
• Select the best option
• Develop a RISK ACTION PLAN
• set objectives
• strategies actions
• specify responsibilities
• estimate/allocate resources
• timeline

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Incident Management Reporting Procedures

• Planned inspections safety checklists
• Monthly inspection plan
• Incident response guides
• Incident reports