Development of a Tool for the Assessment of the Safety in Sports Arenas in respect of Individual and Collective Risks: Application to a Case Study
Abstract
Sport managers, event holders and owners of sport facilities, are responsible for providing optimum safety conditions for users, spectators and employees, through the assessment and control of the potential risks. That is why the purpose of this study has been the development of a safety analysis tool for big sports arenas with respect to individual and collective risks, based on Spanish regulations, NIDE and UNE-EN standards and best practice manuals. This checklist with dichotomous response (YES/NO), consists of 218 items (147 of them related to individual risks and 71 regarding collectives) divided into 10 areas that compose the facilities, with the aim of enabling risk analysis and its subsequent control. A pilot test was carried out in order to assess the safety in a big sport arena, from which is extracted that the area with the highest level of compliance is “Outdoors and access” with a 95%, while the area of “Emergencies” stands at the other end of the scale with a 65,5%. The detected weaknesses, representing 17,88% of total, lead us to recommend the application of this checklist as a method of risk detection that, in most cases, are susceptible to removal or reduction, thereby achieving a considerable improvement in the safety of the facilities.
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