The Role Of The CRFU In RugbySafe
CRFU in RugbySafe
Throughout England the RFU has divided the Regions into Constituent Bodies (CBs). The Cornwall Rugby Football Union acts as one of them. The aim of the CRFU is to assist each individual Cornish Rugby Club to adopt all the policies and procedures that encompass the RFU’s RugbySafe Strategy.
The CRFU RugbySafe Lead, Reggie Gough, sits on the CRFU Management Board and has an
overall remit to assist and engage with Cornish Rugby Clubs, particularly the local Club
RugbySafe Leads, to develop and maintain the RFU RugbySafe Strategy.
Supporting Cornish Clubs
The CRFU RugbySafe Lead will support all Cornish Rugby Club RugbySafe Leads (RSLs) in identifying the correct policies and procedures to ensure that RugbySafe is being applied and maintained at their respective Clubs.
The CRFU will also include on this website, the relevant RugbySafe Hyperlinks to the most current information or documentation that will aid the Cornish Club RugbySafe Lead to ensure they are acting in a RugbySafe manner and are suitably compliant in all relative matters.
Risk assessment
Risk assessments are a thorny subject in all industry and rugby clubs are no exception. The main problem is that they are only really valid for the circumstances prevailing at the time of completion and unless regularly updated become static and lack the agility to adapt to the type of changing circumstance occurring in a rugby club.
However, in order to meet legal obligations and RFU requirements, there has to be a framework for clubs that assists them in identifying potential and real hazards whilst articulating mitigating or preventative measures supported by dynamic risk assessments. This is further complicated by the varying nature and resource of clubs ranging from those with professional full or part time administrators to village sides struggling to put out teams. CRFU is acutely conscious that the administrative burden must be such that it assists, rather than hinders clubs in their endeavours.
The aim of CRFU RugbySafe is to help clubs develop an appropriate safety culture that identifies risk and takes action in support of a club structure through the guided compilation of a risk assessment document that forces clubs to actively examine their unique circumstances and develop mitigations as a baseline followed up by routine checklists or procedures that facilitate the dynamic risk assessment immediately prior to a match or training session or event. Equally, by getting players of all ages to take part in the dynamic risk assessment there are more eyes analysing risk which in turn accelerates the development of an engaged and proactive safety culture in the clubs.
The following links may be of assistance.
- First Aid risk assessment (Own document)
- RFU Risk Assessment – http://englandrugbyinsurance.co.uk/risk-assessment
- RFU Risk assessment tool – http://englandrugbyinsurance.co.uk/risk-assessment-tool
Representative Rugby
The CRFU has several Representative Rugby teams at all ages which are administered by CRFU appointed Officials whose responsibilities are to apply RugbySafe concepts in both training and matches.
The CRFU RugbySafe Lead, Reggie Gough, liaises with the relevant Representative Rugby Team Managers Coaches and Assistants and the Chair and Committee of Representative Rugby to ensure that the RugbySafe concept is being applied and met at all levels of the Game.
