New and updated Guidance Notes - now available
Our guidance notes are exclusive to CIMSPA members and are designed to give you practical support and resources for a huge number of topics covering a range of sports and physical activities.
The new guidance notes are focused around:
- Health and Safety including: Air ambulance landing sites; Fire - evacuation, risk assessment, fire alarm out of service protocol, PEEP’s and GEEP’s; Enforcement - a brief guide; Safe winter working and travelling; Statutory and good practice checks and inspections.
- Operations: Athletics management - equipment inspections.
New Guidance Notes
Air ambulance landing sites
Landing sites for an air ambulance may be required to assist with an incident at your premises, or elsewhere in a near location. The guidance will help you assist the ambulance crew if the landing location is within your own red line boundary.
EAP - Fire alarm out of service protocol
There are times when your fire alarm may be out of service and not operational; this includes planned maintenance or faults/failures. At such times the closure of your building is not always necessary, you may determine it is safe to open partially or fully. This guidance will give you advice on what measure to take.
Enforcement - a brief guide
Enforcing officers help to make sure employers and staff comply with the law. The emphasis is on prevention, but where appropriate, they will enforce the law where they find it is being flouted. The main enforcing authorities include the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Environment Agency (EA), Local Authority and Fire Authority.
Evacuation, Invacuation, Lockdown, Protected Spaces
This document is intended to provide a summary of the generic guidance provided by the National Counter Terrorism Security Office. It can be used to help the development of site-specific emergency response plans.
Fire - Means of Escape Good Practice
Details of good practice to consider when thinking about means of escape from your building.
Fire - PEEPs and GEEPs
Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans (PEEPs) for employees and regular visitors - Where staff and regular visitors to a building require a plan to evacuate, they can be provided with an individual plan.
Standard plans for occasional visitors (GEEPs - General Emergency Evacuation Plan) - A standard plan is used where there are visitors or casual users of the building who may be present infrequently or on only one occasion.
Fire Risk Assessment and Fire Protection Systems
A fire risk assessment is an organised and methodical look at your premises, the activities carried on there and the likelihood that a fire could start and cause harm to those in and around the premises.
Safe Winter Working and Travelling
It is important that everyone is vigilant at times of extreme weather. Your health and safety and the safety of those around you is your responsibility, as well as that of your employer.
Statutory and Good Practice Checks and Inspections
This document lists typical statutory/good practice inspections that should be completed. This should be used to help facilities develop maintenance, checks and inspections programmes.
Our series of guidance notes are just one of a multitude of member benefits you get as part of a CIMSPA membership.
With access to a vast catalogue of best-practice guidance we can support you in safeguarding your clients and ultimately assist you in making sport and physical activity environments inclusive and accessible to all participants.
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