WREC Year End Report

COMMITTEES
A couple of years ago the WREC developed several subcommittees
to address issues central to all areas of the WREC. The obvious goal
was to take advantage of certain skills sets and share the workload
associated with advancing these issues. Committees included
Technology, Risk Management, and Staff Development. Recreational
Sports staff members are also on these committees.
During the 2016 summer the WREC added an Assessment Committee.
This addition came into being after a massive Spring 2016
WREC Customer Survey. An incentive based online survey that netted
over 5,000 responses covering issues ranging from fitness equipment
preference to gym use impact on students’ time management.
(See related data in the Open Recreation section of this document).
Since that survey, the Assessment Committee has been involved
with helping Recreational Sports complete their portion of the CAS
(Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education)
for Student Affairs. The committee has also outlined its assessment
schedule, both micro and macro, on a three-year rotational basis.
Related to assessment, in June 2016, an anonymous survey was
given to staff to evaluate the WREC Director on 18 different traits.
Copies of those surveys are available at the end of this document.
Since our third-party risk management audit in the summer of 2015,
the WREC Risk Management Committee has been extremely productive.
Its members have created risk grids for every WREC and
Rec Sports program and new risk grids are required for all new
activities. Risk grids evaluate severity and likelihood of risk of activities
before and after implementation of mitigating measures. If an
activity cannot be safely mitigated it cannot happen.
The Risk Management Committee also annually thoroughly evaluates
one in-house program. This evaluation includes everything from
industry standards, organizational affiliations, documentation, onsite
reviews, etc. Due to the ever-growing nature of Sport Clubs and
increased requirement in the area of concussion protocol, game
management and athletic training, this was the program that was
reviewed in 2016-17.
With the language around who is authorized to administer an Epipen
injection so unclear, many Epipen certifications are no longer
being recognized. Certainly, this topic is a major concern to AO,
and even the WREC as a whole, so the Risk Management Committee
tackled this issue this year. In short, the committee wrote its own
course curriculum and had it certified by the California Emergency
Medical Services Authority. The WREC is now one of only seven certified
approved training programs in the state. The curriculum is now
one of the classes available to students through the WREC safety
class schedule and has already trained 30+ AO staff and Adventure
Day Camp Counselors.
The Risk Management Committee’s analysis of the WREC Incidents
and Accidents for 2016/17 showed a significant increase this year
in both categories. However, the types of injuries, the locations they
occurred and time of day remained fairly constant. This suggests
much of the increase is due to better and more consistent reporting
as was a goal of the committee. 2016/17 data is much more in line
with similar data from 2011 through spring 2015.
The data shows that close to half of the injuries occur in Open Recreation
and on the basketball courts. Obviously, the vast majority of
these are ankle sprains. The next highest total for type and locations
of injuries are lacerations and the MAC court. Elbows and heads
often come together in both basketball and indoor soccer creating
this data spike.
A third of the incidents were medical in nature ranging from suicidal
behavior to blood found (not reported) on the basketball court to
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