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Hockey Canada Safety Program (HCSP)

The Hockey Canada Safety Program utilizes a proactive, preventative, common sense approach to keeping our children safe. The goal of the program is for the safety people to implement effective risk management programs with their own teams where player safety is the first priority at all times, both on and off the ice.

The safety person is a volunteer who has become HCSP certified. This certification program must be successfully completed every six years in order to be a team’s safety person, even if the individual is a medical professional.

Additional information can be found at http://www.hockeycanada.ca

The safety person:

*Must conduct regular checks of players’ equipment.

*Is responsible for promoting proper warm up and conditioning techniques as a form of injury prevention.

*Establishes medical history files on every player and caries these files and the team first aid kit on every outing.

*Implements an Emergency Action Plan for the team and through this is prepared to react in the event of accidents, injuries and medical emergencies.

*Manages all injuries, learns to recognize serious injuries and refers injured players to qualified professionals.

*Must assume a leadership role in promoting the values of safety, fair play and integrity.

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