McGrath Athletic Liability Training: Overview

"Protect Students, Yourself and Your District "

Designed to provide athletic directors, principals, and coaches with the legal requirements and guidelines regarding their duties and responsibilities for student and staff safety both on and off campus. A range of topics creates awareness of issues and circumstances which could put the employee and/or the district at risk for legal liability.

Participants will learn:

• To identify the greatest risks and liabilities in sports and how to avoid them
• Employer and individual liability in school athletics
• Responsibility as a District Employee and “Duty to Protect” requirements
• Legal guidelines and precautions related to health issues such as serious injuries, heat related illness, eating disorders, steroid use, and more.
• Awareness and prevention of sexual harassment, peer to peer harassment, hazing, and other unsafe student or coaching acts.
• To avoid "deliberate indifference" charges
• How to use daily duty-of-care checklists and report forms
• To properly inform and warn parents and athletes of risks
• Successful communication strategies in athletics

McGrath Training Systems will provide each participant attending the workshop with a McGrath Athletic Liability Training Manual.

The McGrath Athletic Liability Training is generally conducted as a full day seminar.

• For: Principals, athletic directors and coaches of all sports programs.

"Coaching Perspectives in the New Millennium" by McGrath Trainer William D. Berard III, Attorney at Law.

PREVIEW the McGrath Athletic Liability: Minimize the Risk Training Manual (Table of Contents)(PDF)