Sport and Physical Activity in Schools Safe Conduct Guidelines Awareness training for staff groups

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Sport and Physical Activity in Schools Safe
Conduct Guidelines Awareness training for staff
groups
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• This awareness presentation
• will alert staff to the Sport and Physical
  Activity in Schools Safe Conduct Guidelines and
  their implications for planned physical activity
  as part of an educational program
• will indicate how the Guidelines can be an
  effective tool in decreasing the frequency and
  severity of injury associated with sport and
  physical activity, while promoting healthy
  participation

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Sport and Physical Activity in Schools Safe
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• The Guidelines
• Inform school communities in the planning and
  implementation of sport, outdoor recreation,
  physical activity including school excursions
• Draw together advice from Departmental memoranda
  which relate to the supervision and welfare of
  students
• Describe best practice in injury prevention
• Apply whether the activity is taken as part of
  school sport, physical education, within school
  excursions, or any other occasion where planned
  physical activity is to occur as part of an
  education program

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Sport and Physical Activity in Schools Safe
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• Four main sections

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Sport and Physical Activity in Schools Safe
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• Safety guidelines for over 50 sports and outdoor
  recreation activities are listed.
• Advice is provided for each activity and
  includes
• teacher/instructor qualifications and experience
• supervision
• equipment
• venue
• safety
• As an example, safety guidelines for the sport of
  hockey are included in your workshop booklet.

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Sport and Physical Activity in Schools Safe
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• What do you already know about the Guidelines?
• Please complete the quiz on page 2 of the Staff
  Workshop booklet answer True or False for each
  - Staff members may confer.

NOW, LETS SEE HOW YOU WENT!!
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1. Guidelines provide advice on organised and structured sport as well as organised and structured recreational activities True
2. The target group or audience for the guidelines is sport coordinators False
3. The teacher to student ratio for outdoor recreation activities is 130 (Many activities, particularly swimming and outdoor adventure activities, have much lower ratios) False
4. Where the wearing of protective gear is specified in the guidelines, it must be worn (eg. the wearing of helmets for batters and base runners in baseball) True
5. Tobogganing can be undertaken with appropriate risk management procedures in place (For reasons of safety and the incidence of neck, head and spinal injury, tobogganing is not permitted) False
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6. Students with Downs Syndrome should be medically screened prior to their participation in contact sport (Atlanto-axial instability exists in a small number of people with Downs Syndrome and is detected through an x-ray) True
7. Hydrated lime, creosote or kerosene can be used to mark playing fields (All present health and environmental risks) False
8. A risk management process should be undertaken before any outdoor adventure activity is conducted (Outdoor adventure activities are those that potentially place students at a higher risk than is usual at school because of the nature of the activity or the area in which the activity takes place) True
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9. When epileptic students participate in a swimming activity there must be one supervisor for each student (If an epileptic attack occurs while the student is in the water, immediate assistance is required) True
10. Swimming in an inland waterway requires the same level of supervision as swimming at patrolled beaches (Refer to Swimming and Water Safety guidelines) True
11. Students assisting teachers appointed as carnival starters must be trained in the use and storage of starting pistols and caps (students are not to be appointed in this capacity because of the risks associated with use of starting caps) False
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12.Portable soccer goals must be anchored (unanchored goals may tip forwards if sufficient weight is applied to the crossbar, providing a potential hazard.) True
13.Cardio-vascular resuscitation qualifications need to be updated every two years (Required each year because of the need to include new requirements and procedures) False
14.For swimming at a patrolled beach, the supervisor to student ratio is 118 (1.10 applies as a minimum. Supervision may need to be increased in many circumstances) False
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• In organising and implementing all manner of
  school activities, staff either formally or
  informally, plan for the supervision and welfare
  of students
• Staff, in fact, are engaging in a risk management
  process
• What does RISK MANAGEMENT mean?

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• RISK MANAGEMENT MEANS

• identifying foreseeable hazards, risks and safety
  issues
• assessing the risks these hazards may cause
• eliminating or controlling the risks
• monitoring and reviewing the effectiveness of the
  control measures for the identified risks

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• What are the critical elements of a risk
  management plan?

To start, refer to the excursion scenario on page
3 of the workshop booklet and then address the
five key questions (the questions are also
displayed on the following slide)
For responses to questions one and two, use the
sample risk management proforma on page 4 of your
booklet
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• On page 3 of the workshop booklet
• List some of the major risks or hazards relating
  to the bushwalking activity in the section headed
  Hazard/Risk Identification on page 3 of your
  workshop booklet.
• List some of the measures that can control the
  identified risks in the section headed
  Elimination or Control Measures.
• What specific areas of expertise are required of
  staff appointed to conduct the bushwalking and
  swimming activities?
• List any special equipment or protective gear
  that may be required for the bushwalk?
• Identify current Departmental memoranda or
  policies that relate to the organisation of the
  activity? There is a list on page 10 of your
  workbook.

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SPORT PHYSICAL ACTIVITY RISK MANAGEMENT FORM SPORT PHYSICAL ACTIVITY RISK MANAGEMENT FORM
Activity Excursion Bushwalking Location National Park
Hazard/Risk Identification Elimination or Control Measures
Bushwalking Risk of

• Consult with National Parks personnel

• being separated from group

• Students briefed on bush safety

• Appropriate clothing/footwear worn

• Supervision ratio not to exceed 115

• Teacher carries insulin as per health plan

• diabetic reaction

• exhaustion or dehydration

• Regular rest periods taken

• Water bottle carried by all participants

• First aid kit available

• sprains, broken limbs

• sunburn

• SPF30 sun protection and wear hat and long
  sleeve top

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• What specific areas of expertise are required of
  staff
• appointed to conduct the bushwalking and swimming
  
• activity?

• Leaders of the bushwalk must be experienced
• bushwalker(s) with current knowledge of the
• proposed route and knowledge of search,
  rescue and
• emergency procedures

• For the swimming activity, a minimum of two adult
  supervisors with current qualifications in
  rescue, resuscitation and first aid must be
  present. For any aquatic activity, a teacher must
  be present who has current CPR and Emergency Care

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List any special equipment or protective gear
required for the bushwalk

• clothing for anticipated weather conditions
  including waterproof rain jacket with a hood and
  appropriate walking shoes
• communication devices
• medical kit
• sunscreen

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For your information and future reference, your
workshop booklet contains
1. Examples of risk management support materials.
The risk management forms on page 4
and 5 of your workshop booklet and the Planning
form for notice of intention on page 6, provide
examples of the type of information that is
sought to inform the activity approval process
2. A list of key questions for planning
excursion activities 3. Department memoranda
and policy documents
4. Sport safety guideline example the sport of
hockey, and
5. Where to seek further advice!