What should be in the team's emergency action plan?
Guideline- Canada
- Hockey Canada
- Hockey Canada Safety Program
- Concussion Protocol
- All divisions
- 2026-27
- Team safety persons
Hockey Canada's "Emergency Action Plan for Hockey" form says the coach, manager and safety person should meet at the start of the season to make sure they have the volunteers needed for the plan, and the safety person implements it and practises it regularly with the team so everyone understands their roles.
Arena information to record: arena or facility name, address and telephone number, and emergency telephone numbers (emergency, ambulance, fire department, hospital, police and general).
Equipment locations to mark on a map of the facility: phones, exits, first aid and AED.
Three roles to assign:
- Safety person / charge person: takes control of the situation, keeps the player and bystanders still, assesses whether an ambulance or medical care is needed, and signals the others if the injury is serious.
- Call person: makes the emergency call (tests their cell phone in the facility first), knows where alternate phones are (with change or a phone card if necessary), ideally attends all games and practices and is not involved on the bench, has a list of emergency numbers for the area, and has a diagram with directions and the best route to the arena.
- Control person: pre-determines the AED and emergency equipment locations, retrieves the AED or first aid kit if requested, seeks highly trained medical personnel in the facility if asked by the charge person, keeps teammates and spectators out of the way, advises opponents, on-ice officials, arena staff and parents of the steps being taken, keeps the route to the ice surface clear for the ambulance crew, and meets the ambulance and directs EMS to the player.
You also need a pre-determined signal and a pre-determined first aid or medical person.
Added 25 Oct 2026