SAWB - Concussion and CTE in Sports
This episode examines concussion, chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), duty of care and occupational health and safety in Australian sport, drawing on many SafetyAtWorkBlog articles about the AFL, Nick Lowden, player welfare, junior football, contact training, compensation and the limits of “awareness” as a safety response. It asks whether professional sport should be treated more clearly as work, whether repeated head impacts are a foreseeable workplace hazard, and what sporting bodies must do when prevention may require changing the game itself. For the full article with quotes and…
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