Provide Equipment for Activities

When someone books equipment over the phone or walks in to hire or borrow equipment, you will usually need to take their name and contact details

• True

• False

Manual handling is ‘any activity requiring the use of force exerted by a person to lift, lower, push, pull, carry, or otherwise move, hold, restrain any animate or inanimate object’.

• True

• False

A sports equipment inventory is:

• The number of items of equipment you need to repair.

• The number of items of equipment you have counted.

• The number of invented pieces of equipment you have.

Manual handling injuries can include a range of things, including:

• Strained muscles

• Dislocated shoulders

• Hernias

• All of the above

You are planning a mini athletics carnival on the school football oval. You will need the following for High Jump:

• Sand pit to land in.

• Measuring Pole

• Spring Board

• Javelin

Dismantle equipment examples:

• Setting up a volleyball court

• Pumping up an AFL football

• Having music ready to play to motivate participants

• Taking a volleyball net down and putting the poles and net in the storeroom.

Reasons for reasons storing equipment correctly include:

• It ensures equipment can be easily found

• It reduces the risk of equipment being damaged or lost whilst not in use

• It lowers the risk of injuries or accidents occurring in storerooms or storage facilities

• All of the above

Carry out minor repairs on equipment examples include:

• Fixing the grip on racquets, sticks or bats

• Pumping up flat soccer balls

• Replacing nets on basketball or netball rings

• All of the above

If an item is returned to you broken or in a damaged state, you will need to:

• Throw it in the bin.

• Try and repair it.

• Do nothing.

• Avoid telling your supervisor.

It is important to log items as they are borrowed, you need to log them upon return so they are fully accounted for.

• True

• False