The ultimate goal of safety management in sports is to provide proper and safe conditions for all participants in sports, including: athletes, coaches, spectators and organizers of workshops and sports competitions in order for them to benefit from sports and physical activities and to prevent accidents or damages on the sports arena. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the safety management of sporting events in Central province of Iran. Method: This was a descriptive study and the population included the sporting events held in the Central province of Iran within a period of three months (N=36).All the sporting arenas hosting the events, technical supervisors, medical assistants were taken as samples, and in each competition two coaches were randomly chosen as samples.The research data were collected over a period of three months. And a questionnaire was used to obtain information about variables like the safety from the technical supervisors' standpoints, safety facilities, services, first aid equipment, and safety knowledge and safety behaviour of coaches. To analyse data, the methods of descriptive and inferential statistics such as one-way ANOVA, t-test, Pearson correlation coefficients at the significant level of 0.05 were used. Results: In only 8% of the sporting events of the sample, an emergency ambulance with full medical equipment was present. The level of safety management in sporting events with the mean (67.758±1.429) and SD (8.572) was at a good level but far from the ideal. The safety management of the sports competitions held indoor and that of outdoor sports were significantly different. The competitions held in indoor places had a higher safety management than those in open sites. In the sporting events, the safety managements were significantly different between men's sports events and those of women. For the women the safety management was higher than that of the men. The safety management of sporting events held in different age group
