Safety Related Articles

• Safety First: Be Safe in Your Weight Room (Part II)
• Safety First: Be Safe In Your Weight Room (Part I)
• Safety First: Keeping Equipment Clean - In-Season
• Safety First: Head Injury Checklist
• Prevention of Exertional Heat-Related Illnesses
• Safety First: Concussion Management and Return-to-Play Protocol
• Having the Right Mouthguard
• The Coach’s Role on the Athletic Health Care Team
• Safety First: Good Nutrition – Part of Your Health and Safety Plan
• Safety First: Modify With Care
• Safety First: Deadly Opponent
• Safety First: Time to Recondition
• Safety First: Is your Weight Room a Safe Room?
• Safety First: Protection Program
• Safety First – Pre-Season Safety Checklist
• Safety First – Beat the Heat
• Safety First – Getting On The Same Page
• Safety First – Culture Shift: Changing the culture of football to reduce violent injuries.
• Safety First – Contact In Practice – Is It Worth It?
• Safety First – Training for Safety
• Safety First – Stronger Necks = Fewer Injuries
• Buckle Up
• Knowing the signs of concussion will help you protect your players.
• The Safety Rulebook
• Safety First – Teaching safe tackling technique can reduce head and neck injuries and help protect the game’s future.
• Coaching to Make the Game Safer
• Your Take – Get the Head Out of Football
• The Heat Is On – In the hottest months of the year, coaches need to watch for any signs of heat illness.
• Your Take – Risky Business
• Making the Game Safer
• Tackle Safe – Bobby Hosea’s pioneering tackling technique protects players from devastating head injuries.
• Your Take: Time To Get Enlightened

The number one priority of every coach at every level must be the safety and well-being of their players. Fortunately, we know that the vast majority of coaches share this viewpoint.

It is particularly important today that coaches have information about how to protect players� safety and have resources that can lead to coaching practices and techniques that will decrease, if not eliminate, serious player injuries.

That's why AFM has created the "Safety First" campaign to make football a safer game. We believe that safer football is better football, and it's our goal to help coaches do everything they can to ensure that player risks and injuries are minimized.

Please use the links to the left to access AFM articles and other resources designed to inform coaches about ways they can help protect football by making it safer for players at all levels. And look for new Safety First articles in upcoming issues of AFM.