The SOP checklist every health and leisure franchise should be running
A lapse in process at a gym, studio or swim school is not just an inconvenience, it can mean an injured member or a lost accreditation.
If most of these are a work in progress, you are not alone.
Our full guide, Building SOPs that keep every location consistent, walks through how to build, structure and maintain SOPs that hold up across a growing health and leisure network.
Find out whether your SOPs are actually protecting your members and your network or just sitting in a folder somewhere.
List every process repeated every day or every session: facility opening checks, pool chemical testing, class handover between instructors.
Flag which of those processes create the most safety or accreditation risk if they are done inconsistently.
Involve instructors, coaches and duty managers in drafting the steps, not just head office.
Write each step specific enough that a new instructor could follow it correctly between sessions.
Choose a format that matches the task: a simple list for facility opening, a flowchart for incident or emergency response.
Store SOPs somewhere accessible poolside or on the floor, not a folder on a head office drive.
Build a training and sign-off process new instructors complete before running a session solo.
Set a review cycle tied to accreditation renewals, safety standard updates and new class formats.
Track who has and has not acknowledged updates across every site.
Audit sites regularly against the SOP, not just before an accreditation visit.
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