School Sport Victoria Injury Prevention Policy

This policy, and its related policies, ensure the safe participation in School Sport Victoria events.

Details and Guidance

'Safety Guidelines for Children and Young People in Sport and Recreation' is latest Sports Medicine Australia's information and includes information sports injury prevention. Its main aim is to help reduce the frequency and severity of sport and recreational injuries, as a means of encouraging and maintaining greater participation in physical activity.

Promoting safer sport and recreation messages through the development, distribution and delivery of effective training, education and health promotion resources focused on injury prevention and management. These include:

General injury prevention resources warm up, drink up, gear up, fix up, footwear for safety and mouth guards.

Sport specific fact sheets some sports include Australian football, baseball, basketball, cricket, gymnastics, hockey, netball, rugby union, running, soccer, softball, tennis and volleyball (Click here for the full list).

Injury specific fact sheets AC joint, achilles tendon, ACL, ankle sprain, hamstring, quadriceps contusion, gastrocnemius and meniscus.(click here for the fact sheets)

Policies and guidelines some include blood rules, emergency planning, hot weather guidelines, safe landing, safety personnel, safety guidelines for children and young people in sport and recreation, UV exposure and heat illness guide and concussion. (click here for the SMA Policies and Guidelines)

Related Policies

Department of Education Policies for Mental and Physical Health:

• First Aid for Students and Staff: Policy | education.vic.gov.au (this includes Concussion)
• Heat Health: Policy | education.vic.gov.au
• Infectious Diseases: Policy | education.vic.gov.au
• Canteens, Healthy Eating and Other Food Services: Policy | education.vic.gov.au

SSV Policies for maximising participation:

• General Conditions of Competition
• Competition Pathways and Progressions
• Inclusion
• Small Schools

Rules of the Sports on the SSV Website

SSV Policies for mental and physical health:

• Accident Incident Report
• Privacy
• Child Safe Policy
• Child Safety Responding and Reporting
• Codes of Conduct - Child Safety
• Codes of Conduct - SSV Events
• Participation Behaviour
• Positive Behaviour
• Drugs in Sport
• Extreme Weather and Catastrophic Events Guidelines
• Injury Prevention