Safe to Practice
30 minutes
CIMSPA CPD valid for 12 months
Learn how to incorporate safe practice into your coaching, building your confidence to create a safe environment for all.
Overview
Safety is a fundamental principle that should be applied to everything you plan and deliver. Safe coaching is great coaching.
The Safe to Practice eLearning series can give you the knowledge you need to create a safe and nurturing environment for your participants, essential to supporting them to achieve their potential.
You will be guided through the exploration of 15 key principles of safe practice, encouraging you to reflect on and review your coaching practice and delivery, ready to make any tweaks necessary to elevate your sessions.
Series of Three Courses
This comprehensive series is comprised of three courses:
- Creating a Safe Environment.
- Creating Safe Sessions.
- Safe Deployment of Coaches, Volunteers, and Helpers.
Click on the following titles to find out more about each course and decide which will be useful for you and your participants.
This course delves into five foundational principles crucial for maintaining safety in various environments in sport and physical activity.
You will explore:
- how to manage risk effectively
- the importance of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and its role in safeguarding participants
- why educating participants about safety is paramount
- the importance of maintaining up-to-date participation information
- the critical role of first aid provision and injury management.
Learning more about this key topic will help you to create an environment at your sessions where everyone feels safe and secure.
To support you in this topic, please download and save the related learning and resources documents:
Building on the foundational principles, this course takes a closer look at the five safe to practice principles. Applying those principles to your coaching will help you create sessions that prioritise safety and well-being.
You will explore:
- the importance of session safety checks
- the considerations for coach-to-participant ratios
- how recognised practice priorities safety
- the role of safe dispersal in safeguarding participants
- the crucial role of contingency and emergency action plans.
Learning more about this key topic will support you to create coaching sessions that encourage growth, development, and, above all, safety.
To support you in this topic, please download and save the related learning and resources documents:
The final course in the series extends beyond individual coaching sessions to explore five safe to practice principles that support the deployment of coaches, volunteers and helpers, and explains how the entire coaching family plays an indispensable role in ensuring safety for all.
You will explore:
- strategies for minimising risk through following a safe recruitment process
- how to maintain professional boundaries
- the important role of formal regulated coaching qualifications
- how to use unqualified volunteers and helpers safely
- the role of team coordination in ensuring a comprehensive approach to safety that extends to the entire coaching community.
By the end of this series, you will be equipped with a robust understanding of the 15 principles of safe practice and how to integrate them into your coaching practice, giving you the confidence and skills to create safe and nurturing environments for all your participants.
To support you in this topic, please download and save the related learning and resources documents:
Full course details
This series is suitable for all coaches who want to increase their knowledge of safe practice to benefit their coaching.
Each course is self-paced and lasts approximately 20 minutes. You will be able to access them whenever you want, fitting them in around your lifestyle and commitments; there’s no requirement to complete them in one sitting.
You have access to the course for 12 months from the point of enrolment. There is no due date, but it will need to be completed during that timeframe.
Our experienced advisors are on hand should you need any help with navigating through the course.
The course has been designed to be fully mobile-responsive, scaling up and down for mobile optimisation.
If you have a visual impairment, we have designed the course to work with screen readers.
Some content, for example, videos, may have screen reader-compatible transcripts to accompany them.