Ala. Admin. Code r. 420-11-3-.01

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 12, September 30, 2024

Section 420-11-3-.01 - Minimum Course Requirements

Youth athletics associations and recreational organizations that sponsor or conduct sports training, or high-risk youth athletic activities for children age 14 years and younger, shall require all unpaid or volunteer coaches and athletics personnel to complete a didactic, online, or residence course that addresses, at the very minimum:

(a) Emergency preparedness, planning, and rehearsal for traumatic injuries.

(b) Concussions and head trauma.

(c) Heat and extreme weather-related injury familiarization.

(d) Physical conditioning and training equipment usage.

(e) Heart defects and abnormalities leading to sudden cardiac health death.

The course requirement under this section shall be an annual requirement to be completed no later than the anniversary of the date on which the individual became actively engaged in serving as athletic personnel or coach for the association.

High-risk youth athletic activities is defined as any organized sport in which there is a significant possibility for a youth athlete to sustain a serious physical injury, including, but not limited to, the sports of football, basketball, baseball, volleyball, soccer, ice or field hockey, cheerleading, and lacrosse.

Ala. Admin. Code r. 420-11-3-.01

Adopted by Alabama Administrative Monthly Volume XXXVI, Issue No. 12, September 28, 2018, eff. 11/4/2018.

Author: Jamey Durham

Statutory Authority:Code of Ala. 1975, Act 2018-496.