Playgrounds Expert Witnesses

Leesburg, Florida

Athletics & Recreation, Safety - Parks, Playgrounds, Play Spaces, Events, Supervision, Instruction, Facilities, Ballfields, Outdoor Recreation, Equipment, Emergency Action Planning and Response, Aquatics, Basketball, Softball, Risk Management, Racket Sports, Physical Education, Fields, Spectators, Loss Prevention

Over the course of my career as an academic, I have produced over one-hundred and twenty-five scholarly works – to include peer reviewed journal articles, textbooks and book chapters, professional presentations and research grants – that address safety in sport and recreation. Additionally, I have taught safety and risk management practices and principles – to include topics such as risk management process and assessment; professional responsibility; playground safety; parks and outdoor recreation; safety in supervision, instruction, facilities, and equipment; emergency action planning; safety in participatory sport, collegiate sport and professional sport; health and fitness; spectator safety; safety in hospitality settings; aquatics safety; lightning safety; event safety- to thousands of students at top tier universities. I've also presented on safety issues to city managers, operations staff, school administrators, coaches, physical education teachers, park staff, educators, f...

Warrendale, Pennsylvania

Chemistry & Chemicals, Failure Analysis - Sports Technology, Sports Surfaces, Synthetic Turf, Artificial Turf, Playgrounds, Running Tracks, Gymnasium Floors, Court Surfaces, Construction Defects, Manufacturing, Recreational Coatings, Surface Coatings, Technical Textiles, Protective & Shock-absorbing Materials, Material Fatigue & Failure

Martin Schlegel has more than 25 years of international experience in the sports and recreation industry across novel materials, technology and R&D commercialisation. He is the Principal of chemneera Consulting providing advice and technical expertise to communities, companies and stakeholders in the sport technology, sports infrastructure and sports business industries across Australasia, Europe and the USA. As a Distinguished Member of the Sports Innovation Board of the International Sport Technology Association (ISTA) in Atlanta GA and a Director of the Australian Sports Technologies Network (ASTN), his work focuses on start-up programs, global partnerships with other clusters of innovation and facilitating export growth of sports technology companies. He previously worked on major sports infrastructure projects across Australia, Asia, Europe, and the USA, including sports surfacing projects for the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games. Throughout his manufacturing career, he worked g...