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Exercise Risk Management for Health/Fitness Professionals: Legal Issues and Strategies |  | Item | : | 9780781783644 | | Pub Date | : | Oct 2008 | | Pages | : | 432 | | Illustrations | : | 24 | | Cover | : | Softbound | | Trim Size | : | 8.4" x 10.9" (21.3 x 27.6 cm) | | Author | : | JoAnn M Eickhoff-Shemek PhD | | | | David L Herbert JD | | | | Daniel P Connaughton EdD |
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 organizations
- Sample forms such as waivers, informed consents, and incident reports to help you understand how to protect yourself and your organization from legal liability
- Tables 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 plan
- Risk Management Assignments to teach you the action steps for providing a reasonably safer program and environment for participants
- A Risk Management Pyramid summarizing the text and highlighting seven lines of defense to protect yourself and your organization from negligence
Online resources include an electronic version of the book and downloadable forms contained in this book.
Table Of Contents
PART 1 Introduction
- Chapter 1 Introduction to Risk Management
- Chapter 2 Introduction to the Law and Legal System
- Chapter 3 Determination of Duty in Negligence Claims and Lawsuits
- Chapter 4 - Common Defenses to Negligence Claims and Lawsuits: Assumption of Risk and Waivers
Part 2 - Assessment of Major Liability Exposures and Development of Risk Management Strategies
- Chapter 5 - Employment Issues
- Chapter 6 - The Pre-Activity Screening Process
- Chapter 7 - Health/Fitness Assessment and Prescription
- Chapter 8 - Instruction and Supervision
- Chapter 9 - Exercise Equipment
- Chapter 10 - Facility Risks
- Chapter 11 - Medical Emergency Action Plans
Part 3 - Final Risk Management Steps, Unsupervised Health/Fitness Facilities, And Selected Topics
- Chapter 12 - Implementation and Evaluation of the Risk Management Plan
- Chapter 13 - Risk Management Strategies for Unsupervised Health/Fitness Facilities
- Chapter 14 - Selected Topics and Conclusion
Glossary
Case Index
Subject Index |
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