#2. Risk Management & Legal Liability Flashcards
What type of gloves are good to use because they are hypoallergenic?
Nitrile or Vinyl - Latex is a common allergy
“The potential of something happening that will have an impact.”
Risk
What two ways are risks measured?
likelihood and consequences
Goal of managing risk?
Prevent harm as well as educate and promote good health/safety.
What is our objective as student trainers?
Decrease the # of injuries that are likely to happen
What are two things that can be done to reduce or avoid risk?
- Reduce through practices - teach them correct mechanics of their sport
- Accept inherent risk and prepare for it.
Courses of Legal Action: “robberies, assaults, murder”
Criminal Suit
Courses of Legal Action: “non-premeditated offences, occur in sports”
Civil Suit
“being legally responsible for the harm one causes”
liability
“a legal wrong”
tort
“an act unlawful and intended to cause harm”
commission
“failure to perform a specific legal duty (whoops)”
omission
“not providing reasonable or ordinary care”
negligence
“a condition where danger is apparent or should have been apparent which ultimately resulted in unreasonable, or unsafe conditions - eg. a school fence gets broken and doesn’t get fixed and a kid impales them self on it”
foreseeability
_____ is the failure to exercise ordinary or reasonable care that others with your level of training would in similar circumstances.
negligence - only do as much as you are trained to do!
