The standard
Make sport safe by design.
Safety is the foundation of professional coaching. Six courses for coaches and accreditation for the centres they work in, protecting children, girls and women in sport, designed to be adopted statewide.
Why sport first
In sport, trust is personal, physical, and immediate.
How it works
Coaches get certified. Centres get accredited.
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Facility accreditation
Every coach earns the baseline. Every centre learns how to prevent, respond and display accountability. Neither works alone. A certified coach inside an unprepared centre still has nowhere to escalate.
For coaches
Six courses, each renewed annually.
Safety in Sport Basics comes first. Each course is ten modules and earns its own certificate. The first five cover the three coach certifications in the draft Karnataka Safe Sport Code; Leading a Safe Club covers the Safeguarding Officer role and facility accreditation.
Safety in Sport Basics
Recognise every form of harm a young athlete can face, how grooming works, and your duty to act. The foundation, and a good place to start.
Every coach · About 3½ hours
Safe Coaching Practice
Coach with boundaries that protect athletes and you: the rule of two, touch with consent, phones and photos, changing rooms, travel and fair selection.
Every coach · About 3½ hours
Responding and Reporting
Notice the signs, respond when a child tells you, record it, and report it the right way, including online harm and concerns about a colleague.
Every coach · About 4 hours
Women and Girls Safety in Sport
Keep girls and women safe and in sport: safe spaces, periods and bodies with dignity, families and culture, travel, harassment of adult athletes, and being an ally.
Anyone who coaches girls or women · About 4 hours
Athlete Wellbeing and Child-Centred Coaching
Coach the whole athlete: growing bodies, feedback that builds, mental health and trauma, inclusion, heat and injury, hygiene, medicines and food.
Every coach · About 3½ hours
Leading a Safe Club
Run a place where athletes are safe: the Safeguarding Officer, safer recruitment, policy and escalation map, events and hostels, handling concerns, and learning from failure.
Head coaches, academy owners and Safeguarding Officers · About 3½ hours
Narrated tutorials
About ten minutes of slides per module, in the coach’s language.
A test every module
Multiple choice. 80% to pass, and a retake if not.
Certified on completion
Pass every module and the certificate is issued, valid 12 months.
Universal, then local
The knowledge holds in any country. Laws and helplines are India’s in this first edition.
For centres & academies
Be the centre parents choose.
Accreditation covers
A response playbook for every centre.
Prevention
Displayed code of conduct, clear coach boundaries, parent-visible standards and current staff training status.
Escalation
Incident classification, who to inform, timelines, and referral pathways to police, child welfare and women’s safety channels.
Documentation
Incident log, witness notes, evidence preservation, confidentiality, child-sensitive handling and an audit trail.
Support
Immediate safety of the child or athlete, parent communication, counselling referral and victim-sensitive language.
Governance
Named safeguarding officer, annual renewal, audit readiness and management accountability.
Visibility
Front-desk certificate, QR verification, renewal status and a public trust signal parents can check.
Visible trust
Parents should see the standard the moment they walk in.
A framed certificate at the front desk turns safety from an internal policy into a public promise. The QR code resolves to a live status page, so the certificate on the wall cannot outlive the accreditation behind it.
Safety in Sport Accredited Facility
This centre has completed the Safety in Sport accreditation process. Coaches and staff have met the mandatory training and annual renewal requirements.
AX-FAC-2026-0119
Valid until 31 July 2027
Scan to verify current status.
Illustrative certificate. Accrediting body and co-branding vary by partner.
For government
A state can set the floor for everyone at once.
My Drona executes the platform, curriculum, certification, accreditation workflow and analytics. The state holds the standard and the leadership credit. Karnataka is the first partnership under discussion: a statewide Safety in Sport Standard beginning with government coaches and extending to every government sport facility.
Week 1–2
Finalise approved curriculum, expert panel, branding and legal review.
Week 3–6
Produce modules, scenarios, tests, certificates and admin protocols.
Week 7–10
Pilot with selected coaches and facility administrators across sports.
Week 11–12
Publish the completion dashboard, lessons, renewal plan and rollout proposal.
Why this works
Safety is the standard no one can argue against.
It protects children, girls and women. Parents understand it without explanation. Departments and academies reduce real risk by adopting it.
It gives serious coaches a credible path to professionalism, and it gives facilities a visible way to show preparedness rather than claim it.
And it is the foundation of a professional coach. Everything else My Drona certifies rests on this floor.