The Regional Safety Director is responsible for educating Regional staff, board members, coaches, referees and other volunteers about the importance of completing the AYSO Incident Report Forms. The Regional Safety Director is also responsible for distributing, collecting, and storing the forms; and for reporting incidents to the AYSO National Office.

The Regional Safety Director will supply coaches with several copies of the form at the beginning of the season.

Incident Report Forms should be completed by any coach, referee or Regional staff member witnessing any serious incident involving, but not limited to:

• Injuries
• Illnesses
• Threats of bodily harm
• Fighting whether or not a serious injury occurs
• Property damage
• Hospitalization of a participant
• Law enforcement summoned
• Service or notification of a pending lawsuit

Regional staff, coaches, and referees are to submit Incident Report Forms to the Regional Safety Director at [email protected].