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The aim of this article is to help prevent serious incidents from occurring due to the incorrect or unsafe use of goalposts
In recent years, legislation has become more focused on the legal responsibility of individuals and organisations buying, using and maintaining football and rugby goalposts, highlighting the consequences of when facilities fail to ensure equipment is safe, whilst both in use and when being stored.
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All previous recorded fatalities caused by goalposts involved ones which were not made by bone- fide goalpost manufacturers. Following the publicity generated by the successful BBC “That's Life” programme in 1991 which exposed the danger goalposts could pose to children when not safely used or maintained, a Goalpost Safety Standard Committee was set up in conjunction with the British
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Standards Institute (BSI). The committee has since worked hard to develop a Code of Practice BS 8461, as well as two standards for goalposts – BSEN 748 and BS 8462 for manufacturers to meet. The Football Association revealed some concerning statistics surrounding the standard of goalposts when conducting on-site inspections across the UK several years ago. Their findings revealed that, of all goals tested, 41% of mini-soccer goals, 50% of 5-a-side goals and 22% of junior goals failed stability tests.
In order to conform to
European Safety Standards and FA Guidelines, it is essential for risk assessments to be conducted by every site, evaluating the suitability of different anchorage types available.
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