GCSE PE
Prevention of Injury
Syllabus Content
 You should be able to:
 describe and explain, using a variety of specific
examples, various ways to minimise the risks in these
areas; e.g. correct clothing/footwear, personal
protective equipment, rules/laws/codes, knowledge of
appropriate safety procedures, lifting/carrying/placing
equipment, correct techniques, appropriate level of
competition relative to age, sex and size, and warm
up/cool down;
 explain the importance of good personal hygiene in
games activities in order to avoid minor infections such
as verrucae and athletes foot.
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We know the risks – how do we
prevent injury?
 Each group will concentrate on each of the following areas for 4
minutes. Within each 4 minute period…
 Identify how you think they have an impact on any of the sports
that you participate in, in terms of preventing injury
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Appropriate level of competition
Clothing / Footwear
Correct technique
Knowledge of Appropriate safety procedures
Lifting/Carrying/Placing equipment
Personal Protective Equipment
Rules/Codes/Laws
Warm up / Cool down
 This part of the course is general knowledge, so you will easily
complete this task. Your team must contribute an example to each
method of preventing injury. A few ideas…
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Appropriate level of competition
 Participants are one of the main factors of risk
towards each other
 Risk is increased when there is a significant
difference between
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Age
Sex
Physical Size / Weight
 Class discussion
 What are the advantages and disadvantages of Rugby
/ Football / Hockey being organised in weight size
categories instead of age groups?
 Which sports should have no divisions between
participants?
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Clothing and Footwear
 Clothing has 3 main purposes
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Identity
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Protection from weather
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Suitability / safety
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Footwear
 Simple footwear needs to be worn properly
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Loose or tight = blisters
Undone laces = lack of support, could come
off
 Speciality footwear
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List the items of speciality footwear that you
own and what makes them ‘special’
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Correct technique
 Correct technique = Improved performance
+ Safety
 What would be the potential risks with poor
technique in
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A rugby tackle
A javelin throw
A hockey hit
Pole vault
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Knowledge of appropriate safety
procedures
 Think back to your Javelin lesson. What were
you instructed to do? List the teacher
instructions in order.
 Safety procedures are important in
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Setting up and preparing to play
Ensuring safe play during competition
Completion and clearing away
 Give an example of a safety procedure that
all participants follow in one of your chosen
sports
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Lifting / carrying / placing
equipment
 During the course of a day in
PE you may have to lift a
number of heavy items
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Gym equipment
Weights
High Jump mats
 There are 106 million days of
work a year in Britain through
bad backs!!
 Once lifted and placed it has to
be secured
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Gym box lowered from wheels
etc
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Personal protective equipment
 Guess the protective equipment and the sports that you could use
it in from left to right and top to bottom – 11 in total
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Rules / Codes / Laws
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LAW 20. SCRUMMAGE
A scrummage, which can take place only in the field-of-play, is formed by
players from each team closing up in readiness to allow the ball to be put on the
ground between them but is not to be formed within five meters of the touch-line.
The middle player in each front row is the hooker, and the players on either side
of him are the props.
The middle line means an imaginary line on the ground directly beneath the line
formed by the junction of the shoulders of the two front rows.
If the ball in a scrummage is on or over the goal line the scrummage is ended.
Forming a Scrummage
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(1) A team must not wilfully delay the forming of a scrummage.
(2) Every scrummage shall be formed at the place of infringement or as near
thereto as is practicable within the field-of-play. It must be stationary with the
middle line parallel to the goal lines until the ball has been put in. Before
commencing engagement, each front row must be in a crouched position with
heads and shoulders no lower than their hips and so that they are not more than
one arm's length from the opponents' shoulders.
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In the interests of safety, each front row should engage in the sequence of crouch,
then pause and only engage on the call "Engage" given by the referee.
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Other Factors
 Warm Up and Cool down – see section 2d –
Principles of Training
 Good personal hygiene
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Careful washing and drying (yourself and your
clothes can prevent fungal infections such as
Athletes Foot and wart infections such as
Verrucae
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