A Study on the Current Status and Development of Safety Management in Sports

Abstract

Sports are deeply involved in people's daily lives to the extent that they contribute to their leisure, health promotion, and public welfare, and the area of sports is also rapidly expanding due to the explosive increase in the sports population and various new leisure sports. Sports safety accidents are caused by a combination of various factors such as careless operation of sports facilities, poor operation of managers, and safety anxiety of users. Therefore, sports safety management requires a comprehensive approach to all matters necessary for sports facilities and sports activities. Accordingly, this study was conducted with the aim of presenting a development plan to improve the status of sports safety management after deriving problems from various angles. The results of this study are as follows. First, the legal basis for the safety management of sports facilities was insufficient or systematic. There was a blind spot for sports facilities to which the law was applied, and the competent ministries that operated the actual regulations were all at the same time, resulting in poor effectiveness and wasted administrative power. Second, there was a lack of awareness of the safety of managers and users of sports facilities. As a result of a survey of people who experienced injuries during actual sports activities, it was found that the degree of knowledge and implementation of warm-up and finishing exercises was very low, as well as wearing protective gear/safety equipment, identifying risks, preventing and coping with safety accidents. Third, sufficient safety education is not being provided. Despite the fact that safety education was the basis of safety awareness, there was no opportunity to accumulate knowledge of safety, and it resulted in reducing the effectiveness of accident prevention and accident reduction. In order to improve these problems, this researcher proposed the following specific action plans. First, legal and institutional improvements are needed to strengthen the safety of sports facilities. Second, it is necessary to train and deploy field safety management professionals in sports facilities. Third, it is necessary to provide continuous safety education on sports safety management. Fourth, it is necessary to raise the safety awareness of sports activity users. Safety cannot be overemphasized. In order to increase the function of the virtuous cycle of leisure, health promotion, and welfare realization, thorough management of sports safety and raising safety awareness will be an essential duty for all of us living in modern society.