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Accident/Injury Reports

This report MUST be completed when:

1. A player required the assistance of a trainer due to an injury which resulting from the course of a hockey event.
2. A player is taken by ambulance to hospital.
3. If the injury will not allow the player to return to active duty based on a physician’s diagnosis.
4. If the possibility exists that there could be any expenses related directly to the injury of if a possible claim/suit could result from the injury against the Hockey Canada insurance program.

It is the team management’s responsibility to file injury reports to PMHA – Risk Management. Parents are to assist the team management in the completion of the report as well as providing doctors notes in order for the player to be permitted back on the ice. PMHA requires that injury reports be submitted as soon as possible to PMHA – Risk Management but not more than 30 days following the incident.

A doctor’s release note is required along with a completed injury report before the team management is permitted to allow the player back on the ice. A parent’s verbal or written consent is not adequate.

A trainer can refuse to allow any player from continuing to play in a game or practice if they have just cause. The trainer may not be overruled by any player, parent or team official. This includes the head coach.