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Posted By stephen ryder
Hello. i am a student and i am studying enterprise in sport. i am recently researching health and safety laws in a gym. i have not been able to find any laws about health and safety that would affect a gym based business. i am asking for your help to send me some health and safety laws that would affect a gym based business. please could someone help me. thankyou
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Posted By Adam Worth There are loads that would be uncovered by a risk assessment process to help get you started Start by looking at http://www.hse.gov.uk/entertainment/index.htmA few ideas Health and Safety at work act 1974 (HSAWA)(particularly Section 3) The workplace Health Safety and Welfare regs (condition of floors and facilities?) Provision and use of work equipment regs 1998 (PUWER)(covers all the gym equipment) I'm not going to do all your work for you :) but that should be a start
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Posted By stephen ryder
thankyou for your help. you are a star. cheers.
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Posted By CFT
Stephen
You have a fair bit to consider much the same as any other place of work but of course with the addition of public facilities that you would ultimately be responsible for.
Allow me to give you a short list of considerations for you to research further; at least this way you can assess the areas that are going to be of benefit to your studies.
Health & Safety Legislation (HSAWA 1974, MHSWR 1999, PUWER, LOLER, etc etc)
Fire fighting equipment/training and risk assessment, (RRFSO)
Lone working (out of normal hours)
Lone use of steam rooms/sauna/warning alarms
Correct choice of equipment
Correctly trained and qualified staff
Welfare (staff)
Disabled access and possible use of equipment
Legionella testing (showers etc)
Cooling/heating
Noise levels
Lighting inc emergency lighting testing
PAT (Portable Appliance Testing)
Trailing cables (floor boxes??)
Storage of equipment and Manual Handling (staff)
Accounting for clients in event of emergency, (recording entry/exit)
Display of Insurance docs/H&S Poster etc
Always have at least one trained member of staff on hand to watch proceedings
Sun beds (training/restrictions/health questionnaire/goggles/in built timers/inspection and testing etc
Cleaning of equipment and changing rooms
Initial client induction surveys (health protection)
Passenger carrying lifts (LOLER etc)
This is not meant to be a definative list, rather more a core list of basic detailing that you would need to consider; some are mandatory some are indicative, but I would hope that is sufficient for you to explore further.
Customer care is one of your larger issues and as such would need a relevant amount of time devoted to it.
I know it seems a lot, but in reality it is not, it just seems that way!
Don't hesitate to come back if you are unsure of any areas or simply want to get clarification you are on the right track.
All the best
CFT
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Posted By CFT
Adam
Apologies, I didn't mean to repeat, I had it on the screen, got called away and there were no responses at that time.
CFT
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Posted By peter gotch
Hi Stephen.
There is also guidance published by the Institution of Sports and Recreation Management [ISRM] and the Fitness Industry Association [FIA].
Regards, Peter
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