Managing Risk means Understanding Consequences

Student Life events and activities provide a healthy balance to academic pursuits. But some activities are just too risky – and often the student event organizers don’t understand the risks involved, or how to manage them.

Student-run events that involve alcohol, transportation and high-risk physical activity may cause serious injury, damage to school property, and negatively affect your institution’s reputation. Should a serious injury occur, chances are it will result in a negligence lawsuit.

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Creating partnerships between administrators and student leaders
One of the challenges in employing solid risk management practices in Student Life is getting the participation and commitment of student leaders. Convincing them that student activities pose a very real threat to personal safety, and that it’s in their best interests to protect the members of their student body can be difficult.

That’s where we can help!

McGregor & Associates has more than ten years of experience in risk management consulting and conducting training workshops. We can work together with you and your student leaders to help identify high-risk areas, and create effective ways to prevent accidents and injury. The result is a strong partnership between administration and student leaders, and a safer environment for students.

McGregor & Associates have created the unique ‘Student Event Risk Management’ (SERM) program designed to:

  1. Help Student Union and Student Affairs administrators assess and approve student-run events.
  2. Educate student leaders about what negligence and liability really means in the ‘event’ context.
  3. Train student leaders and event organizers in event planning skills.

If you’re concerned about the consequences of student-run events at your institution, we can help.

Contact the sport risk management experts at McGregor & Associates today.

In July of 2015 California State University, Chico had the opportunity to participate in Sport Risk’s new ‘Best Practices’ risk management review conducted by Ian McGregor & Associates. Ian is clearly one of the most knowledgable and experienced leaders in risk management practices and our institution was excited to be one of the first Universities to use this new evaluation process. 

 While evaluating our programs we found his work to be innovative, comprehensive, and easy to use throughout all aspects of our various recreation programs. Because of his outstanding work we are using the recommendations as a catalyst for program improvement.  Being able to contrast our practices with other NIRSA institutions is invaluable in bringing our programs to a higher standard of excellence. Without hesitation, I would recommend this process to any collegiate recreation program who is interested in current, state of the art, risk management practices. You will find Ian McGregor and Associates to be professional and cost effective in helping you meet your administrative responsibilities.

Kimberly Scott

Director of Recreational Sports
Associate Director of Student Life
California State University, Chico

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