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LEARNING INTENTION:
Understand the ethical and legal considerations when training others.
HOW THIS RELEVANT TO ME:
This will enable me to learn how to reduce the risk of injury, stress and harm to others.
SUCCESS CRITERIA:
Propose strategies to avoid ethical and legal implications.
TRUE OR FALSE
Teacher reads out the following statements. If students think the following statements are true, walk to the front of the room. If you think it is false, walk to the back of the room.
🟢 As a coach, if a player isn’t breathing you legally have to perform CPR.
🟢 As a coach, you need to ensure a basketball post has padding around it.
🟢 As a coach, you need to cancel training if there are ditches in the grasses.
🟢 You can’t coach a children’s team unless you have a coaching certificate/degree.
🟢 You can’t use wooden hockey sticks without the use of a mouthguard.
ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
What is it?
Ethical considerations encompasses values, fair play, sportsmanship, and essentially having good moral behaviour from athletes to coaches.
The increasing application of the law in sport means that coaches and officials must be able to identify areas of potential risk. A coach who does not fulfil their duty of care to athletes may be found negligent.
MISSING WORDS: obligation / hurt / injure
Duty of Care: Refers to a legal ___________ to take reasonable care to protect another from all reasonably foreseeable risk of harm.
Risk Identification: Involves looking for things that may __________ the athlete.
Risk Evaluation: How likely is it that someone will get ______, and if they are, to what extent.
Risk resolution: Can the risk be minimised or removed?
1. Undertake a risk assessment of the school oval / courts and identify potential risks and strategies to minimise injury.
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DUTY OF CARE
All players, coaches, referees and/or organisers have a legal duty to make all activities as safe as possible for themselves and other people in any sporting recreation environment (LEOISAAC, 2011).
Coaches have a responsibility to:
🟩 check equipment
🟩 remove injured players from the field
🟩 have First Aid personnel and equipment standing by
🟩 enforce a policy of not sharing water bottles to prevent the spread of communicable disease
🟩 do not put people in a position to which they are unsuited
🟩 exercise great care in using experimental techniques
🟩 do not rush people to learn new skills before they are ready
🟩 check playing surfaces
🟩 do not encourage aggression
2. Read ‘The Management of Concussion in Rugby League’ and answer the following questions.
a) Can an athlete return to play in the same game after a concussion?
b) What are the short and long-term effects of a concussion?
c) What are the steps to care for an athlete with a concussion?
d) How will the coach need to design the athlete’s first training session back?
3. As class, analyse the statistic and trends on AFL concussions in Australia.
CODE OF CONDUCT
CODE OF CONDUCT
A Coach’s Code of Behaviour sets out the minimum standards of ethical behaviour for anyone involved in playing, training or taking part in club activities. Organisations are responsible that a current Code of Conduct is in use, easily accessible and understood.
4. Read the AUSport Coaches Code of Conduct and outline what the code looks like.
CODE
1. Respect the rights, dignity and worth of every human being.
2. Ensure the athlete's time spent with you is a positive experience.
3. Treat each athlete as an individual.
4. Be fair, considerate and honest with athletes.
5. Be professional and accept responsibility for your actions.
6. Make a commitment to providing a quality service to your athletes.
7. Operate within the rules and spirit of your sport.
8. Any physical contact with athletes should be appropriate to the situation and necessary for the athlete's skill development.
9. Refrain from any form of personal abuse towards your athletes.
10. Refrain from any form of harassment towards your athletes.
11. Provide a safe environment for training and competition.
12. Show concern and caution towards sick and injured athletes.
13. Be a positive role model for your sport and athletes.
WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE
Within the context of the activity, treat everyone equally regardless of sex, ethnic origin or religion.
Help each athlete reach their full potential.
Language, manner, punctuality, preparation and presentation should display high standards.
Ensure equipment and facilities meet safety standards
RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBLITIES
It is a coach's RIGHT to feel safe, be treated fairly, be heard and feel supported. It is their RESPONSIBILITY to treat all athletes equally, provide a positive and effective training strategy and act responsibly. Safeguarding in sports is the process of protecting children and adults from harm by providing a safe environment in which to play sports and be active.
5. Complete the table to evaluate the consequences when rights and responsibilities are taken advantage of by a coach.
Coaches are expected to conform to accepted professional standards of behaviour that are based on a set of moral principles or values. 'The coach's code of behaviour' has been produced by the Australian Sports Commission and provides coaches with a guide on the behaviour that is expected of them.
6. Read through page 3 of the junior sports codes of behaviour document.
a) What are the impacts on the game and players if the coach adheres to the code of conduct?
b) What are the impacts on the game and players if the coach does not adhere to the code of conduct?
c) Assess how effective do you think having a code of conduct is in moderating coaches behaviours?
Codes of Behaviour.pdf
LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS
Part of your duty as a coach is to stay informed with current policies and procedures to ensure that you are satisfying all legal requirements in your chosen sport. This is to prevent any situation where you might be subjected to legal action because of your negligence. Negligence is when injury or harm occurs because of something a coach has done or because they have failed to provide the proper care. There are ways you can minimise the chances of legal action. If an athlete is injured during training or game situations, the coach can face a lawsuit if the incorrect treatment, training or warm up wasn’t followed followed.
Coaches can avoid legal implications by:
🖊️ being qualified 🖊️ provide age-appropriate activities
🖊️ staying up to date with training 🖊️ providing safe equipment
7. Working in pairs, read each of the scenarios and for each scenario complete the following questions:
a) explain where the coach went wrong and how they failed to fulfil their duty of care
b) propose what the coach could have done to prevent this situation from occurring
SCENARIO 1
A coach is coaching an under-12 soccer team. Training finishes at 5pm but the coach has to rush off straight after training to attend a medical appointment. Two boy’s parents are late and they are left alone in the dark. The coach leaves to attend his appointment. When the parents eventually arrive, the boys are standing in the dark crying. The parents are furious.
SCENARIO 2
A rugby player complained to their coach about a sore neck from training the previous night. On game day, the coach told the player that he couldn’t let the team down and to stop complaining. The player ended up being spear tackled causing a serious neck injury that paralysed him for life. The player seeks legal Advice.
SCENARIO 3
A hockey coach forgot to tell her team to wear mouth guards for the first training session. Two players don’t have them. She warms them up properly, provides three skill activities and then proceeds to play a 15 minute game at the end. In the last minute, one of the players without a mouthguard gets hit in the mouth with a stick. There is blood everywhere.
SCENARIO 4
In a game of volleyball, a player tries to set the ball and dislocates her finger. The coach tells her that he will `pull it back in place’ because he saw it on a movie (the coach is not trained in basic first aid). The player’s finger is now broken and needs an operation.
8. Read one fo the following articles and propose preventative strategies.
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