Risk Management

Course Description:

Risk Management for parks, recreation, tourism, and sport organizations with an emphasis on ethical managerial strategies. Students will learn how legal concepts relate to specific managerial functions and how a knowledge of law and its impact on functions of recreation environments can help build a more efficient and successful operation that better serves the needs of its constituents and protects its ability to provide products and services. Students will also learn how effective strategies for risk management in parks, recreation, tourism and sport organizations can facilitate active-healthy lifestyles and sustainable communities.

Learning Objectives:

• Summarize principals of risk management within the context of basic management functions such as governance, human resource management, and organizational operations.

• Identify and describe policies and practices for managing program and service risks. Emphasis on employee selection & qualifications, supervision issues, training considerations, safety and security issues, appropriate documentation.

• Advanced analysis of policies and practices for managing recreation facility, built environments, trails & open space risks such as maintenance/inspection issues, OSHA guidelines and compliance, and contract negotiation and management.

• Identify and describe policies for managing human resource risks (e.g., constitutional law issues, EEO, OSHA, discrimination, fair labor standards, working conditions)

• Discussion how effective strategies for risk management in parks, recreation, tourism and sport organizations can facilitate active-healthy lifestyles and sustainable communities.

• Critically evaluate the risks inherent in a selected parks, recreation, sport or tourism operations and discuss strategies for managing risks

Reflection:

In the park, leisure, tourism, and sports industries risks are ever present. Having the capacity to manage, minimize, or eliminate these risks can determine an organizations ability to remain in existence. The course highlighted the need to have specific measure in place to help minimize and/or respond to risk associated with organization activities.

Once again, this course provided me an opportunity to implement practices and policies to assist in the growth, development, and protection of the newly formed sports academy, Charlotte Elite Academy. As a recreation and sport professional, I am aware of general risks and measures taken to minimize liability. However, the course provided a deeper awareness to elements that can bring potential harm or damage to an organization and putting policies and procedures in place to respond to such risks.