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Scenario · Fitness Centre

Screen and induct a new gym member

You are a fitness instructor at the Summit Leisure Centre.

Intermediate2 to 3 hours8 tasks
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The situation

What has happened

Ella Marchetti, aged 34, joined on Tuesday and has been told she cannot use the gym until her screening and induction are complete. She is booked with you on Friday at 4 pm and Ollie Baxter will observe. Last week a member became dizzy on a treadmill and it turned out his screening was fourteen months old, so the Fitness Manager wants every screening completed, recorded and acted on the same day. Ella has said on the phone that she has asthma and wants to lose weight and get stronger. The cable crossover machine is out of service and the gym is busy after 5 pm.

Your brief. Complete Ella's pre-exercise screening, decide whether a referral is needed and act on it, deliver a gym induction that leaves her confident and safe on the equipment in her program, assess her goals and write a first program with a review date, recording everything in the member and client register.
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Tasks

Deliverables

  • Completed pre-exercise screening and consent form
  • Referral letter if required, or a recorded reason no referral was needed
  • Member and client register entry with screening, induction and program
  • First program with review date
  • Note to the Senior Personal Trainer

Documents to use

Systems to use

Member and Client Register

Holds member, client and program participant records including screening status, programs, trainer and membership status.

Equipment and Maintenance Register

Tracks gym, pool plant, sports, outdoor, vehicle and emergency equipment with inspection dates, condition and service status.

For trainers and assessors

Units of competency

Current on training.gov.au for the Sport, Fitness and Recreation Training Package as at 10 September 2026.

SISFFIT032Complete pre-exercise screening and service orientation
SISFFIT033Complete client fitness assessments
SISFFIT040Develop and instruct gym-based exercise programs for individual clients
SISFFIT047Use anatomy and physiology knowledge to support safe and effective exercise
SISFFIT052Provide healthy eating information

Qualifications

SIS30321Certificate III in Fitness
Assessor notes

What to look for

Evidence guide

Observe or role-play the screening. The student must review every stage one question, follow up the asthma response, take stage two measures with consent and make a defensible referral decision. The induction must include equipment adjustment, re-racking and emergency procedures, and the program must be within scope with sets, repetitions, load and progression. The register entry must be complete the same day.

The student's evidence summary lists every record they created or changed in the systems named above, their notes and the tasks they ticked. Verify it against the deliverables and your own assessment tool.