SportRisk

Risk Management Committee (36:15 mins)
For many departments, risk management efforts lack focus and direction. This video outlines why it’s important to have a risk management committee, what its role should be, and tips on how to make it more effective.
Target Audience: young professionals, seasoned professionals

Nuts & Bolts of Risk Management Planning (25:51 mins)
Risk Management planning doesn’t have to be complex and time-consuming. This video describes a Simple 3-step Planning Process: (1) using the ‘Risk Matrix’ to identify high risk programs & facilities, (2) developing and implementing a simple audit and (3) formulating simple and doable action plans based on the audit.
Target Audience: young professionals, seasoned professionals

Waivers Simplified (4:51 mins)
Learn what waivers are and why they’re used, how they are different from informed consent or assumption of risk forms, and factors that affect whether they will be upheld in a court of law.
Target Audience: young professionals, seasoned professionals

Constructing a Waiver (3:02 mins)
Not all waivers are created equal. Learn about the two basic sections of a waiver and keys to constructing a “good” waiver.
Target Audience: young professionals, seasoned professionals

Using Waivers (3:47 mins)
Once your department has a good waiver form, you’ll need to decide how it will be used. Will you have everyone sign a waiver or take a high-risk approach? This video discusses multiple factors you should consider when using waivers.
Target Audience: young professionals, seasoned professionals

Waiver Administration (3:16 mins)
There’s more to administering a waiver than just handing someone a piece of paper and asking them to sign it. Proper administration of a waiver can affect whether it stands up in a court of law. Is your staff doing it correctly?
Target Audience: student staff, young professionals, seasoned professional supervisors to track success

Hazing (21:04 mins)
Despite all the recent national publicity, hazing still happens in our recreation programs, especially Sport Clubs.This video describes how to spearhead a positive cultural change within Sport Clubs programs by developing comprehensive principles and guidelines and implementing good practices and procedures to combat Hazing.
Target Audience: student staff, young professionals, seasoned professionals, sport clubs staff

Safety Officer Training (30:47 mins)
As a minimum, high-risk Sport Clubs need some level of medical coverage at practices and games. Learn about implementing a simple and effective Club Safety Officer training program.
Target Audience: young professionals, seasoned professionals, sport clubs staff

Negligence Awareness Training for Sport Club Officers (19:07 mins)
This training for Sport Clubs Officers provides a simple explanation of negligence and liability as it applies to Sport Clubs and stresses the liability consequences of ‘not paying attention’.
Target Audience: sport clubs officers, sport clubs staff

Budgeting (13:09 mins)
Poor budgeting by Sport Clubs can result in Club financial problems and potential financial loss. This video outlines how Sport Clubs professional staff can teach Sport Clubs officers the key elements of budgeting
Target Audience: young professionals, seasoned professionals, sport clubs staff

Transitioning (15:24 mins)
Club Sport officers change year after year and without proper transition management and training, clubs can quickly fail. This video demonstrates how to develop and implement an effective ‘transitioning’ program which involves early identification and training of future leaders.
Target Audience: young professionals, seasoned professionals, sport clubs staff

Classification Systems  (36:02 mins)
Classifying Sport Clubs based on traditional models can result in lost opportunities to develop true leadership in Sport Club Officers. This video outlines a unique classification system which does not follow more traditional models, but rather focuses on developing and rewarding Sport Clubs in the areas of Leadership, Education and Service.
Target Audience: young professionals, seasoned professionals, sport clubs staff

Sport Club Council (28:14 mins)
Many Sport Club administrators need guidance in setting up a Sport Club Council or ideas on how to better utilize an existing one. This video outlines the key roles and responsibilities of the Sport Club Council.
Target Audience: young professionals, seasoned professionals, sports club staff

 
Leadership Training (38:06 mins)
Students are often ill-prepared to assume leadership roles as Sport Club Officers. This video focuses on (a) the essential training that officers must have to effectively manage day-to-day club functions and (b) developing leadership skills that greatly benefit the Club as well as the officers.
Target Audience: young professionals, seasoned professionals, sport club staff

Transportation Planning Essentials (35:05 mins)
Travel can be a nightmare and has the potential to create serious damage to those travelling — and the department. Keeping travel policies & procedures simple is a challenge. This video describes the 4 key travel issues in detail, but the main focus is on the driver and the ‘non-negotiable’ driver-related policies that need to be developed.
Target Audience: young professionals, seasoned professionals, sport clubs staff, outdoor recreation staff

Travel Planning Tools (44:21 mins)
Managing travel is complex, requiring many checks and balances – and attention to detail. This video offers a unique solution to travel coordination — using Google Docs to efficiently and quickly manage all aspects of the travel process — from registering drivers to approving trips — all done seamlessly online.
Target Audience: young professionals, seasoned professionals, sport  clubs staff, outdoor recreation staff

Training (30:33 mins)
Developing a comprehensive Emergency Response Plan (ERP) can be complex and time consuming. This video builds on the foundation discussed in the “Putting it Together” video, above and focuses on plan implementation through training, rehearsals, and drills.
Target Audience: young professionals, seasoned professionals, risk management committee

Student Training (20:22 mins)
Student staff often don’t understand the importance of Emergency Response training. This video demonstrates a unique training system which involves local professional first responders, e.g. police and firefighters, providing realistic “in-the-moment” training scenarios.
Target Audience: young professionals, seasoned professionals, risk management committee

Behavior Management (44:04 mins)
Managing camper behaviour issues may be one of the most difficult, frustrating, and challenging tasks that your staff will face. This video presents a behaviour management framework that balances prevention strategies (to prevent undesirable behaviour) with intervention strategies (to intervene during undesirable behaviour).
Target Audience: young professionals, seasoned professionals, youth camps staff

Missing Child Procedures (32:10 mins)
A missing camper is your worst nightmare! With so many campus locations to search, responding quickly and effectively can be a daunting task. This video walks you through what you must do to ensure your missing camper protocol is speedy and effective.
Target Audience: young professionals, seasoned professionals, youth camps staff

Lightning Safety (1:31 mins)
Playing in the rain can be fun, but play needs to stop when lightning approaches. This video describes how to use the flash-to-bang method to estimate the distance between you and a lightning strike, when to take cover, and when it is safe to resume activity.
Target Audience: student staff, young professionals, seasoned professionals, intramural sports staff, sport clubs staff, outdoor recreation staff, facilities/grounds staff

Medical Screening Simplified (18:14 mins)
While you have a duty to know if your participants are physically able to participate, it’s logistically almost impossible to medically screen everyone. This video focuses on how a “high risk” approach can help you determine if someone should be medically screened and which screening protocols are available to you.
Target Audience: young professionals, seasoned professionals, fitness staff, sport club staff

Event Planning Simplified (32:16 mins)
Event organizers often don’t fully understand the event planning process and things get missed. This video focuses on developing a simple process for managing events by identifying the key risks and developing a simple, focused event organizational and staffing plan.
Target Audience: young professionals, seasoned professionals, events staff

Climbing Wall Safety (31:45 mins)
People working in climbing gyms are not always aware of industry standards meaning best practices are not always followed. This video is designed to improve knowledge in bouldering, top rope climbing, lead climbing and soloing. The presentation also focuses on ways staff can protect themselves from negligence and how enhanced observation skills can help create a safe climbing environment.
Target Audience: young professionals, seasoned professionals, climbing wall staff, outdoor recreation saff