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Safety Page & Overview
Field Inspection Hazard
Field Coordinators, referees and coaches should be the last line of defense when dealing with field safety. Everyone should be involved in making sure the fields are safe for AYSO players. Make sure everyone involved in practice and game days knows what to look for in order to keep the fields free from safety hazards.
Goal Safety
Portable soccer goals can tip over, causing injury and even death. How to anchor and store your portable soccer goals, where to get warning stickers...
You have nothing to fear from a quiet, unassuming portable soccer goal, right? Its importance as the focus of a child's goal-kicking effort outweighs any possible danger, right? WRONG!
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has reported 26 deaths and hundreds of injuries since 1979 resulting from soccer goal accidents. Most of these injuries occur when children climb on top of an unsecured goal, causing it to either break from the strain (in the case of many homemade goals) or simply flip over onto an unsuspecting victim. You only need to review some of the descriptions of injuries and deaths addressed in the CPSC report to become saddened by this easily-preventable problem.Video: Soccer Goals Pose Risks to Kids
Heads-Up Concussion Awareness Program
The Center for Disease Control (CDC)
Heads-Up program information provides coaches, athletes
and parents vital information about concussion
prevention and the possible long-term side effects.... you may find more info below
Nutrition
Eating right for health and game performance.Pass these tips along to parents and team players about proper eating habits before, during and after a soccer game ...
Hydration
How hydration can help prevent and treat heat exhaustion, heat stroke, dehydration and other heat-related illnesses. Heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke are all serious (in some cases fatal) heat-induced conditions. It is imperative for the safety of your players and volunteers that you and your coaches know how to identify and treat them...
Is Heading Safe?
In response to concerns over the long-term results of heading the ball, AYSO has adopted the AYSO Heading Policy. Also discusses the concerns.
Many of you read a recent article that said heading in soccer could cause some brain damage. Never has one story provoked so many calls to the Coaching Department at the National Support Center of AYSO. Reaction such as "Is it true?"and "What position has AYSO taken?" ...
Street & Parking Lot Safety
Protecting yourself and your players around the field. For practices and games.
With the number of AYSO players, parents and volunteers at an all-time high, it is crucial that you and your volunteer corps establish an efficient and safe parking lot drop-off and pick-up system that is equipped to handle large numbers of people. Below are some of the critical areas that you will want to consider as well as share with everyone in your organization to keep everyone - and especially the kids! - safe...
