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Course: Personal Trainer's Toolkit: Workplace Health and Safety in a Fitness Setting
Week 2 and Sonya Has Some Great Ideas Here For You!
Know how to assess and manage risk, including COVID-19 and keep your gym housekeeping up to standard! Lets meet Sonya in the gym!
Introduction to Workplace Health and Safety in a Fitness Setting
Welcome to Personal Trainer’s Toolkit: Workplace Health and Safety in a Fitness Setting! On successful completion of this course you will be able to: Identify strategies to implement workplace health …
How do you keep fitness settings clean?
Slips, trips and falls are the largest cause of accidents in all workplaces, including those offering fitness services. Generally, simple measures can be taken to reduce the risk of injury. …
How to implement workplace health and safety procedures
There are a number of risks to watch out for in a fitness workplace setting. This article looks at the main concerns, and how to implement the right health and …
Workplace Health and Safety for Fitness Trainers
Fitness trainers are responsible for ensuring good workplace health and safety practice. This is achieved through: Complying with all legislation and all company policies, procedures and instructions Taking all action …
Fire Safety in the Workplace
Fire safety in the workplace is important business. Legislation, regulations and standards require employers to provide proper exits, fire fighting equipment, emergency plans and employee training to prevent fire deaths …
Emergency Procedures in the Workplace
All businesses, including those in the fitness industry need to have emergency procedures in place and the first step in doing this is to plan and be prepared for any …
How to Provide Safety at Unsupervised Gyms
Many fitness businesses now operate as a 24/7 service for their members, with a significant portion of that time unstaffed. This means there is often no supervision by a qualified …
How do you manage COVID-19 in a fitness setting?
Both staff and customer confidence and comfort are essential in a fitness setting, with their health and wellbeing of paramount importance. A COVID-19 safety plan should be in place to …
Safe Guidelines for Effective Business Practices
Exercise Guidelines Exercise Guidelines represent industry standards. These guidelines have been developed to enhance the capacity of exercise professionals and fitness businesses to deliver safe, high quality, client-centered exercise services. …
Summary
That brings us to the end of week one! This week was about policies and procedures of workplace health and safety in a fitness setting. Looking at Identifying hazards, roles …
What is an Adult Pre-Exercise Screening System?
Personal trainers, fitness instructors and fitness business owners are all too aware of the risks involved in prescribing exercise and the need for a consistent standard of professional practice in …
7 workplace hazards in a fitness setting
All workplaces have hazards that could pose safety issues or include workplace procedures resulting in situations that also may lead to safety issues. Fitness setting hazards A fitness facility is …
What is a workplace health and safety programme?
An effective workplace health & safety programme should address the general requirements specified by workplace health & safety legislation as well as the specific risks associated with your business. For …
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Personal Trainer's Toolkit: Workplace Health and Safety in a Fitness Setting
