This course outlines legal issues in Canadian sport and recreation management. Topics cover a range of key areas that students in Sport and Recreation programs must understand as they enter the field. These include:

• Risk analysis
• Insurance
• Legal liability
• Issues in tourism and casual recreation
• Professional and amateur sport participation

Upon successful completion of this course, learners will be able to:

• Describe why and how people take risks in recreation situations
• Explain the legal and regulatory framework for the leisure and tourism industry in Canada
• Define and explain various principles of law and risk management terms and concepts
• Apply the principles and variables of laws and risk management to a sport, leisure, and/or recreation environment
• Discuss the best approaches to communication in a risk management recreation environment
• Make judgments regarding the appropriateness of actions and decisions taken, and demonstrate an appreciation of good legal practice in specific recreation businesses
• Discuss best practices in human resources management in risky recreation businesses
• Express how recreation providers can consider equipment acquisitions and usage to best protect the consumers
• Explain how a recreation provider determines risk potential
• State and explain risk management in adventure and high-risk tourism
• List and explain the responsibilities of various levels of government in recreation risk management
• Define responsibilities of recreation providers towards spectators
• Identify sports violence issues