1. ASSIGNMENT 3 Task 1 presentation

2. Health and safety at work act 1974 Under the health and safety at work act employers, employees and volunteers have a duty of care to others people. All NGBs, clubs and societies have specific requirements to implement safe procedures, to operate with safe equipment and to provide guidance on how to manage the risks associated with their activities. It is important that individual clubs and societies understand their legal responsibilities with respect to health and safety management and NGBs have a prime role to play by highlighting the issue and providing suitable information to clubs and societies.

3. RIDDOR 1995 Reporting of Injuries Diseases and Dangerous Occurances Regulations The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR), place a legal duty on employers, self- employed people and people in control of premises to report work-related deaths, major injuries or over-three-day injuries, work related diseases, and dangerous occurrences (near miss accidents). Reporting accidents and ill health at work is a legal requirement. The information enables the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and local authorities, to identify where and how risks arise, and to investigate serious accidents.

4. Personal Protective Equiptment 2002 PPE is a device or an appliance that is designed to we worn or even held at the work place for protection, for example shin pads in football. An example of PPE in a sports centre, when playing rugby on the grass we need to make sure all clients have the correct footwear, and they will also need a gum shield. If one of the clients didn't have the correct equipment and then he hurt himself he could the sue the sports centre. So before each client goes outside to play rugby there should be employees checking that everyone has the correct footwear and a gum shield.

5. Control Of Substances Hazardous to Heath (COSHH) 2002 COSHH is the law that requires employers to control substances that are hazardous to health You can prevent or reduce workers exposure to hazardous substances by finding out what the health hazards are, deciding how to prevent harm to health, providing control measures to reduce harm to health and making sure they are used. COSHH can affect sport centres in many ways the main one is swimming pools. COSHH has to be carried out at every swimming pool to check that the chlorine levels are at the right level. If the chlorine levels are too high it can affect people with sensitive skin. Chlorine is needed in pools to keep the water clean.

6. HSE and AALA inspectors HSE The health and safety executive acts to reduce work related death and serious injury across Great Britain's workplaces. ALLA AALA inspect and issue licences to providers. These licences give an assurance that, so far as is reasonably practicable, participants and employees can be 'safe'.

7. Local authorities and local education authorities Local authorities Local authorities have a central role to play when it comes to the provision of community sport and recreation facilities. From the local parks to leisure centres, they allow a huge range of leisure activities to be performed locally Local education authorities It is part of the local authority that is responsible for education within the councils jurisdiction

8. Police Police are there to protect the participants and people watching, a good example will be football, the police are there to stop people fighting

9. Governing bodies of sport and institute for sports, parks and leisure Governing bodies Across England there are many different national governing bodies of sport (NGBs) who have responsibility for managing their specific sport. Institute for sports, parks and leisure They are formed from two substantial bodies, institute of leisure and amenity management (ILAM) and national association for sport development (NASD). ISPAL represents the workforce in the sports, parks and leisure industry. They provide qualifications, training and an information service

10. Loco parentis and statutory law Loco parentis loco parentis is Latin for ‘in the place of a parent’. In loco parentis refers to the authority delegated by parents to another responsible adult for example a teacher. The person that is responsible is expected to apply the same standard of care a parent would. Statutory law Statutory law is all the written laws making it illegal to not following them, this legal factor is in place to make sure every business follows the laws that cover health and safety of employees.

11. Duty of care and higher duty of care Duty of care All employee’s and employers have a duty of care towards other people in the work place or when on a trip, wherever there is a potential risk/danger. Higher duty of care Coaches or teachers must be prepared for children to be less able that adults would be in a similar situation that they are in. this has to be taken into consideration even more than it already should be because the child may have learning disabilities or another disability, this could put them in even more danger so the coach or teacher has to be extra careful.

12. Case law, negligence and civil law Case law Case law is a set of laws which are used to explain the verdict in a case. It is a ruling made by a judge based on previous rulings and interpretations of the case. Negligence Negligence is about leaving people on there own to do something when they are not authorized to do so or they can’t do it because of their ability. Negligence is failure to take reasonable care to avoid injury or injury to another person. Civil law the system of law concerned with private relations between members of a community rather than criminal affairs