Sport Policies Promote Safe Participation

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Sport policies are created to promote safe participation and ensure that each game is fair, in all sport for all individuals involved. Going against any of these policies can cause penalties to be placed, as it places not only themselves, but others at preventative risk.
Sport teams for children are always created based matching components of several factors like size, age, strength, skill, disability, height, weight and gender to provide equity and equality to the players. These factors play a role in the safety of all individuals playing. Individuals who play with their opposing components have less chance of getting into an injury, as they go hand in hand, and aren’t differentiated against. It is necessary to have matching opponents to …show more content…

The field that the sport is being playing on must be safe and have no danger. There should be regularly inspected to ensure that the equipment and environment is safe to play on. The environment should have no holes, hard patches, exposed sprinklers which can cause damage. If the ground has of those, it can cause injuries such as sprained ankles, bleeding from falling, etc. There should also be nothing lying around within the perimeter and area of the game field, as players could trip and fall over it, as they are not paying attention to the floor. Head injuries can be caused as if a player falls, they could land on their head, and cause them to have perhaps a concussion, leading them into missing out on games for the healing …show more content…

Rules and regulations are created with the purpose of being a preventative strategy, instead of only just a post-incident policy. Rules are for every possible area in sporting, and to follow them and know about them is the athletes and coach’s responsibility. Rigorous rules are created for sports that are naturally dangerous. In rugby, there are rules about locations of tackling and there are penalties if these tackling tactics are used. The spear tackle is a dangerous move where rotation is added to the player being tackled, causing the player to hit the ground head or neck first causing head or neck injury, which can turn out to be permanent. Having rules that prevent such incidents from occurring cause participants to be

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