Sporting holds a risk of injury due to accidents and overexertion, but there are many possibilities to prevent sports injuries. For instance by making sports infrastructures and equipment safer, promoting use of protective equipment, adapting rules of the game, and by injury prevention focused training methods and coaching.
Given the international and in particular also the European dimension of sporting and physical activity, it is important to share good practices in safe sporting among countries and to assist national and local organisations in promoting safer sporting practices.
Therefore the objectives of the EuroSafe Sport Safety Task Force are:
To raise awareness among stakeholders (national and local authorities, NGOs and sports federations) about the burden of sports injuries;
To collaborate with all relevant sectors and to promote the inclusion of sport safety in national and local sports policies and in health promotion programmes.
To create a wider network consisting of the relevant stakeholders (practitioners, researchers, policy makers) to exchange good practice in preventing sports injuries and their implementation in new settings.
To help national and European partners in implementing successful sports safety management programmes.
Co-ordinating office
Swiss Council for Accident Prevention (bfu)
Holderstrasse 5a
CH-3011 Bern
Switzerland
