Keep your Sporting Community Safe

By completing the Sport Safety Tick

Across Australia, one of the main reasons people are dropping out of sport, is fear of injury.

There’s a practical, FREE resource ready to help reduce the risks for your sporting community.

The Sport Safety Tick is a self-assessment tool to help sport, clubs, schools, and community groups create a medically safe and well-prepared sporting environment.

By completing the Tick, you are taking proactive steps to ensure the right medical structures for example; having a system to manage first aid supplies, are in place to support your players, officials, volunteers and teams throughout the season.

Sport comes with inherent risks, but having strong safety measures in place can help ensure a well-managed and enjoyable season. We encourage all clubs to regularly review their medical safety procedures.

Why do the Sport Safety Tick?

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Prepare for your application:

The process will take approximately 20 mins to complete.
Consider the best person at your club to complete the form, this may be the club administrator/president, etc.
Have access to your club documents/policies/procedures to refer to when completing the process.
You can SAVE the form and return at any stage to complete, remember to hit the SAVE button.

The TICK is designed as a framework to guide and support you/your sport. It provides important information, although it is not an audit, approval, professional opinion or certification. To maximise the TICK program, it relies on honest and accurate responses.

Please reach out to the SASMA team to discuss how the Sport Safety Tick can help you or for further support and guidance.

How does the Sport Safety Tick help?

Its an initiative to improve safety and capability in sports across South Australia
It demonstrates standard practice, good practice and best practice in Sports Safety
Will vary based on sports and organisations
The results will provide connections, resources, links and education towards building a safe sporting environment
Will be easy to use and not onerous to complete
On completion, you will be able to display the TICK banner on websites, in clubrooms and all promotional materials.

Funding and Grant Partners

The Sport Safety Tick Project is funded by the Office for Recreation, Sport and Racing, and is proudly supported by the following Grant Partners;

YMCA SA
SANFL
MediPro Sports Tape & Medical Supplies
Sport SA
City of Holdfast Bay
Limestone Coast LGA
Netball SA
City of Onkaparinga

Testimonials

The course gave me a better understanding on recognising concussion as well as the long term affects if not managed correctly

FAQs

What happens if my club cannot complete and answer all required questions of the Sport Safety TICK application?

At SASMA, we are here to assist your Club/School/Council to provide a high standard of sport safety. All questions have links or steps to take to complete the question. If this is not possible, please contact SASMA and we can work with you to help achieve the TICK.

My sport is unique, and some of the questions don’t apply. Can I still receive the TICK?

Potentially, yes! Please contact SASMA directly and we can work with you on a case-by-case scenario.

Is it a long and onerous process to achieve the TICK?

We expect most clubs/schools and councils already have these process and protocols in place. So, answering the questions should be quick and easy. If you do not currently have any of the standard practices in place it will take longer to first implement them and complete the TICK checklist.

Who in my club/school/council should complete the TICK checklist?

We would recommend someone who has a good over-arching knowledge of your organisation should complete the checklist. This may be the President or Council member of a club, the Head of Sport for schools, or the Sport and Recreation Manager at councils.