Risk assessment of Acme University's basketball arena facilities

Sports Risk Assessment

The author of this report has been charged with the task of looking at the sports facilities and amenities of a local sports facility and assessing the risks and hazards that exist when it comes to the same. With that in mind, there has been checklists created and used, identification of the setting that will be looked at, the conducting of an assessment at that facility and a narrative of the findings discovered. The facility that was selected was the basketball arena for the local Acme University program. Overall, the arena is in great shape and is rather low-risk in terms of its structure and so forth. Even with most of the facility being top-notch, there was most certainly some weaknesses and those will be addressed one by one within this report.

Analysis

Areas of Compliance

• The outside of the facility has great walkways and there are plenty of publicly usable doors that allow for going in to and out of the facility.

• For nighttime games and other usages of the facility, lighting of said walkways and doors is very well-done.

• Doorways and walkways are lit every single night without fail. This is true whether there is an vent going on or not • The university has its own police force and they are always present on the university campus (not specific to the arena...but it includes it) and they are usually fairly visible. However, staffing seems to be low at the night time

• Inside is strong as well. Concourses and stairways are wide and it is easy for a large amount of people to flow through without bottlenecks and such

Specific Recommendations

• Add to the parking spaces that are present and available for sporting events. Could mean changing permit parking areas to open parking areas (at least during game times). Need to prohibit non-locals from parking in neighborhoods while at the same time giving a viable alternative on the campus itself. The existence of sporting events should not be a burden or a hassle to nearby residents (more so than is necessary...traffic, noise, etc.)

• Increasing lighting in any areas where it is deficient, especially near walkways and doors. The more light the better.

• Increase visibility of security, police and security cameras. Criminals need to know they are being watched and that they will be caught

• Stricter enforcement needed for parking needed. A person absolutely needs to be parked along each of the fire lanes and people should immediately be told to move their car if they stop in such lanes.

• Need to make sure that people use designated drop-off points to drop people off. Fire lanes are not for that purpose.

• Try to open up space around snack bar queue areas and/or open up more snack bar stations. It is a fire hazard (and a safety hazard in general) to have those areas choked with people at any time

• Failure to meet the above guidelines will mean more potential criminal events (against crimes and persons), higher risk of trampling and other injuries due to areas being filled with too many people

• Any item that is pointed towards an existing or known problem is primary. Anything that is possible but has not yet happened (but could) would be secondary.