Other Health and Safety Issues

Located below are links to resources related to other medical conditions, including sickle cell trait and skin safety.

Sports Medicine Handbook

This downloadable handbook provides guidance for directors of athletics, athletic trainers and team physicians to promote a safe environment for college athletes and to assist in the development of sports medicine policies and practices that support student-athlete health and safety.

Download

Preventing Catastrophic Injury and Death in Collegiate Athletes

The goal of the NCAA sport science institute (SSI) is protecting the life and the long-term well-being of all athletes. To support that effort, the SSI has developed recommendations that provide a flexible roadmap for member schools to address catastrophic injury prevention.

Air Quality

The Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sport provides available information reguarding air quality.

Sickle Cell Trait

The NCAA Sport Science Institute is committed to the health, safety and well-being of student-athletes with sickle cell trait.

Skin Safety

The NCAA Sport Science Institute is committed to providing educational resources that support the skin safety of college athletes.

Inclement/Hazardous Weather

The Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sport provides guidance for athletics departments when inclement/hazardous weather occurs.

Athletic Trainer Workforce

As part of its continued interest in the collegiate athletic training workforce, the Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports, working with NCAA Sport Science Institute staff, co-lead a meeting with industry and membership stakeholders in athletic training in June 2023. The report can be found here.