birthday party insurance?
Does your gym have it?
… there are things to consider when inviting visitors into your facility.
Guests, both children and adults, who aren’t familiar with gymnastics facilities can easily be injured during parties held on your premises.
And accidents can leave visitors with more than just a bad impression of your operation; they often result in costly lawsuits …
read more on a 2005 article from USA Technique magazine – Birthday Party Alert (PDF)
Hannah are discussing. 
Recreational Gymnastics 
Hannah 5:47 am on January 22, 2011 Permalink |
Oh definitely an important consideration.
After teaching rec gym 5 days a week for 7 years, it was still a gymnastics birthday party which brought with it the nastiest injury I’d had to deal with in the gym. It wasn’t a particularly dangerous activity – but that doesn’t really matter, kids will manage to hurt themselves on anything!
We had set up a circuit of jumping activities – mini tramps, squashy shapes, boxes etc. The last jump was down onto a crash mat off a box about 45cm high (yep, that’s all!). The kid seemed to trip over as she jumped and landed awkwardly on the mat dislocating her shoulder and breaking her elbow! Very, very painful stuff for a 7-year old at a birthday party!
Always a bad situation when there’s an injury, but more so at a birthday party with a hopefully ‘super fun’ atmosphere…
Anyway, her mother was watching from the sidelines, and while concerned and helping us to arrange an ambulance, she was very level headed about the whole thing (thankfully). She told us that at another birthday the year before her daughter had also managed to break her ankle at a soccer party… Just unlucky!
Accidents can happen anywhere, anytime.
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coach Rick 9:53 am on January 22, 2011 Permalink |
Wow. How unlucky is that?
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