Full Description
Laws and legal issues in the health and fitness arena become clear with this well-organized text. You will learn invaluable risk management strategies to promote safer programs and environments. You will discover and expand your knowledge of many legal concerns related to emergency procedures, employment, equipment, and facility issues, pre-activity health screening, fitness testing and prescription, and instruction and supervision. Real-life health/fitness case law examples provide practical and useful illustrations of negligence to help you understand and minimize your legal liability.Features Include:A first-time-ever summary of important published standards of practice from over 10 premiere health/fitness professional and independent organizationsSample forms such as waivers, informed consents, and incident reports to help you understand how to protect yourself and your organization from legal liabilityTables and figures to help illustrate important legal and risk management concepts"Put into Practice" checklists to reinforce learning and help you develop a comprehensive risk management planRisk Management Assignments to teach you the action steps for providing a reasonably safer program and environment for participantsA Risk Management Pyramid summarizing the text and highlighting seven lines of defense to protect yourself and your organization from negligenceOnline resources include an electronic version of the book and downloadable forms contained in this book.
Contents
PART 1 IntroductionChapter 1 - Introduction to Risk ManagementChapter 2 - Introduction to the Law and Legal SystemChapter 3 - Determination of Duty in Negligence Claims and LawsuitsChapter 4 - Defenses to Negligence Claims and Lawsuits: Assumption of Risk and WaiversPart 2 - Assessment of Major Liability Exposures and Development of Risk Management StrategiesChapter 5 - Employment IssuesChapter 6 - The Pre-Activity Health Screening ProcessChapter 7 - Health/Fitness Assessment and PrescriptionChapter 8 - Instruction and SupervisionChapter 9 - Exercise EquipmentChapter 10 - Facility RisksChapter 11 - Medical Emergency Action PlansPart 3 - Final Risk Management Steps, Selected Topics, and ConclusionChapter 12 - Implementation and Evaluation of the Risk Management PlanChapter 13 - Selected TopicsChapter 14 - ConclusionGlossaryCase IndexIndex
