Stay ConnectedRisk Management for Park, Recreation, and Leisure Services, 7th ed.
Risk Management for Park, Recreation, and Leisure Services provides park, recreation, and leisure services professionals a primer in risk management, tort liability, and negligence that gives them an awareness of legal liability and allows them to take the lead in managing risk within their organizations.
It covers topics from the emergency action plan, to the risk management plan, to managing employees through the lens of minimizing risk, to addressing risk at events and in facilities.
This book provides recreation professionals with the necessary knowledge to build, implement, and manage a risk management plan that first and foremost offers participants a quality experience in a safe environment and, second, protects the professionals and their employees from undue risk.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Continuity
Chapter 1 Managing Risks in Park, Recreation, and Leisure Services
Chapter 2 Risk Management and the Law
Chapter 3 The Risk Management Plan
Chapter 4 Risk Management and Employees
Chapter 5 Managing Risks at Events
Chapter 6 Managing Facility Risk
Chapter 7 Security and Personal Safety
Chapter 8 Emergency Action Plan
Chapter 9 Managing the Risk at Special Facilities
Appendix A Emergency Action Plan
Appendix B Policy Statements, Indemnifications
Appendix C Waivers, Releases, Agreements to Participate, Registrations
Appendix D Use Permits, Rentals
Appendix E Accident, Injury, and Medical Treatment–Related Forms
Appendix F Incident Report Forms
Appendix G Evaluations, Background Checks, Inclement Weather, Protecting Crime Scenes
Appendix H Occupational Safety & Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor
Appendix I Sources of Additional Information on Establishing Risk Management Programs