This section contains the sample tools and resources that are referenced within the activity safety standards pages and professional learning opportunities. Please consult the appropriate elementary or secondary activity safety standards pages before consulting these tools and resources.
Tools & Resources
Equipment, Facilities and Clothing/Footwear/Jewellery
- Fitness Equipment (Existing, Newly Purchased or Donated)
- General Safety Standards for Clothing, Footwear, and Jewellery
- General Safety Standards for Facilities
- Helmet Information
- Safety in Activity Rooms
- Safety in Fitness Rooms
- Sample List of Rules and Expectations for Playground Structures
- School-Made Equipment
Health and First Aid
- Asthma
- Concussions
- COVID-19 Considerations for Physical Activity
- Emergency Response and First Aid
- Medical Conditions
- Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndrome (SADS)
Professional Learning
Responsibilities
- Coaches Expectations
- Coaches/Community Coach Liaison
- Occasional Teacher Coverage
- Outside Activity Providers
- Rules of Behaviour for Participants at OFSAA Championships
- Student Responsibilities
- Suggested Criteria for Community Coaches (i.e., non-teacher coaches)
Special Rules/Instructions
- Disability-Centred Safety
- Drop-In Self-Directed Physical Activities Safety Standards
- Intramural Special Rules and Instructions
- Lifting, Spotting, Supporting and Transporting Techniques
- Safety Considerations for Online Physical Education Learning
Weather
Tools
Checklists
- Sample Checklist to Identify and Minimize Risk for Activities not Included in OPASSE to assist with this process
- Sample Guiding Questions Checklist for Disability-Centred Safety
- Sample Principal Checklist – Principal/Designate Responsibilities
- Sample Principal Checklist – Teachers, Coaches, and Intramural Supervisor Responsibilities
- Sample Safety Checklist – Gymnasium Equipment
- Sample Safety Checklist – Gymnasium Facilities
- Sample Safety Checklist – Outdoor Facilities
- Sample Supervisory Officer Checklist
- Sample Tool to Identify a Suspected Concussion
Letters
- Sample Curricular Parent/Guardian Letter
- Sample Interschool Parent/Guardian Letter
- Sample Intramural Parent/Guardian Letter
- Sample Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndrome Parent/Guardian Letter
Forms
- Sample Community Coach Application Form
- Sample Curricular Medical Information and Acknowledgement of Elements of Risk Form
- Sample Interschool Medical Information and Consent to Participate Form
- Sample Intramural Medical Information and Consent to Participate Form
- Sample Intramural Permission & Acknowledgement of Elements of Risk Form
- Sample Fainting Episode Form
- Sample Medical Concussion Assessment Form
- Sample Medical Concussion Clearance Form
- Sample Home Concussion Management Form (Return to School Plan)
- Sample School Concussion Management Form (Return to School Plan)
- Sample Return to Physical Activity Form (Non-Concussion Medical Illnesses/Injuries)
Codes of Conduct
