coaching course: risk management

[AABestor]

Hey,
I will be taking a coaching course within the next two weeks, and I was looking over the sylibis and I found risk management. Could someone shed some light on what this might be. I'm assuming safety?

[BigGuy]

Hey,
I will be taking a coaching course within the next two weeks, and I was looking over the sylibis and I found risk management. Could someone shed some light on what this might be. I'm assuming safety?

This is distasteful to me, but it is a sign of the times in which we live now.

Back ground check on the person who will coach.

Also law suits against the coach for negligence if a player get's hurt. Did the coach do every thing to insure the safety of his players?

Things like this

[JoseP]

It's a class invented by lawyers.

Make sure there is always another adult at practice. Never talk to a kid in a secluded area. Make sure to include parents in emails. Do not give out your phone number to a player. Forget about IMing.

And all we want to do is coach.

[Val1]

** Don't drive kids in your car.
** Have liability insurance (you can get from NSCAA).
** Your league offers insurance, but make sure you're practising on an approved field.
** Keep your hands off your kids -- all touch is bad touch.
** Be careful who you let practice with your team. I had a girl get hurt when another girl's brother was playing. Probably a bad move on my part.
** Have a first aid kit.
** Make sure goals are anchored and DO NOT let kids play on or move the goals.
** Don't ever tell a kid to wait for water if they tell you they're hot or thirsty.
** Take the Red Cross Sports Medicine course.

Scared yet:(

[BigGuy]

On Lawyers what if you were stranded on a desert island with Hitler, Atilla the Hun and a Lawyer.

You happened to have a gun with only 2 bullets in it. Who would you shoot?

Answer the Lawyer twice.

[schmuckatelli]

It's not all entirely evil legalese. Some of risk management is simply planning for bad outcomes:
- do you have a plan if a player is injured? Access to a team doctor, EMS, cell phone, etc.?
- do you make sure players are medically cleared before resuming workouts after an injury? Do you give them adequate time to return to fitness before resuming full training/play?
- is the field that you practice on free of foreign objects, rocks, hazards, etc.?
- do you have a safe place to go to if weather conditions change, i.e. sudden storms, lightning?
- do you have an adequate work/rest ratio in your practice, particularly considering weather conditions, i.e., high heat/humidity.
- do you know your players' health conditions, if applicable, like asthma, etc.?

A lot of it is common sense and the 5 p's (proper prior preparation prevents poor performance).

[BigGuy]

It's not all entirely evil legalese. Some of risk management is simply planning for bad outcomes:
- do you have a plan if a player is injured? Access to a team doctor, EMS, cell phone, etc.?
- do you make sure players are medically cleared before resuming workouts after an injury? Do you give them adequate time to return to fitness before resuming full training/play?
- is the field that you practice on free of foreign objects, rocks, hazards, etc.?
- do you have a safe place to go to if weather conditions change, i.e. sudden storms, lightning?
- do you have an adequate work/rest ratio in your practice, particularly considering weather conditions, i.e., high heat/humidity.
- do you know your players' health conditions, if applicable, like asthma, etc.?

A lot of it is common sense and the 5 p's (proper prior preparation prevents poor performance).

We had an ambulance number handy just in case it was the best Bravo. How fast were they to arrive faster then chinese food delivery guys real fast.

We were also lucky enough to have a medical trainer who traveled with the team.

[Norsk Troll]

On Lawyers what if you were stranded on a desert island with Hitler, Atilla the Hun and a Lawyer.

You happened to have a gun with only 2 bullets in it. Who would you shoot?

Answer the Lawyer twice.Ha, ha, ha, ha ...


As a lawyer and a coach, bite me.


And as far as never holding practice without another adult present, forget the overwrought concern over molestation. What do you do as a coach if you're the only adult present, and you have to leave the field due to an emergency with one of your players? Do you abandon the player that needs your emergency help, or do you abandon the rest of you team of minors? Either way - you're screwed.

[loghyr]

Our risk management section was a site emergency plan. Like everything else in the D course, it depends on who is giving it.

[loghyr]

[FONT=Comic Sans MS]** Be careful who you let practice with your team. I had a girl get hurt when another girl's brother was playing. Probably a bad move on my part.


That is a tough one - we want to think we can help anyone.

I know I'm guilty on letting siblings play, it sometimes also lets you have fun with different aged kids.

[BigGuy]

Ha, ha, ha, ha ...


As a lawyer and a coach, bite me.


And as far as never holding practice without another adult present, forget the overwrought concern over molestation. What do you do as a coach if you're the only adult present, and you have to leave the field due to an emergency with one of your players? Do you abandon the player that needs your emergency help, or do you abandon the rest of you team of minors? Either way - you're screwed.

I heard that joke from my lawyer she knows them all.

You have to have more then one adult at the field. I never coached women, but if I did the other adult would be a women.

[thegeneral]

Talk to your insurance agent about getting a blanket liability policy. If one of your students gets seriously hurt (aka wheelchair permanent) you can't really blame parents for looking for negligence. It's going to cost them a fortune to deal with the kids injuries. This will protect you in case you are found to be negligent.