Problems with Managing Injury & Risk

Developing effective prevention of sports injuries requires a substantial information base. SportsRisk is a review of current risk management protocols in the sport and recreation industry.  SportsRisk provides various information relating to mechanisms, models, and policies addressing particular issues and to help identify potential risks in the sport environment while developing suitable and specific strategies to overcome those risks.

Research reveals commitment to implement best practice risk management standards at community level remain largely on an ad hoc and fragmented basis. As a result, one of the main issues identified with effective implementation of Risk Management policies, lies not only with the content of the individual policy, but a lack of commitment from administrators to develop a strategy where standards are accepted, adopted and continually reviewed and adapted.

As most sporting clubs by nature are run by volunteers, and those volunteers have a limited time to perform the basic day to day tasks of running clubs, having to implement injury and risk can become a burden which is a preventative measure that heavily influences whether injury and risk management standards are adopted. More often than not most sporting organisations and clubs will only consider injury and risk management procedure and policies when something has gone wrong, and is often too late.

SportsRisk is designed to provide the information necessary to assist Sporting Organisations and its clubs to develop and maintain its own relevant injury and risk management practices. Effective risk management is more than having a risk management document in place, its using policies to direct effective behaviours and practices that will prevent injury and risk.