Safe Sport
Safe Sport at Speed Skating Sask
Creating a safe, welcoming, and respectful environment for everyone in our sport is a top priority at Speed Skating Sask. We are committed to ensuring all participants — athletes, coaches, officials, volunteers, parents, and members — can participate in speed skating in an environment free from maltreatment, harassment, discrimination, and misconduct.
Our Safe Sport Policy Manual outlines the standards, expectations, reporting processes, and protections in place to help foster a positive sport experience across Saskatchewan. It includes important information related to athlete protection, codes of conduct, screening requirements, social media expectations, complaints and discipline procedures, and conflict of interest policies.
We encourage all members of our speed skating community to review this document and familiarize themselves with the policies that help keep our sport safe, inclusive, and respectful for all.
report a maltreatment complaint
Speed Skating Sask is committed to providing a safe, respectful, and inclusive environment for all participants. Allegations related to maltreatment, prohibited behaviour, harassment, discrimination, or other safe sport concerns are managed through an independent third-party process.
Under Saskatchewan’s Safe Sport framework, complaints are overseen through Sask Sport’s designated Independent Third Party (ITP). Depending on the nature of the complaint, matters may be directed to the appropriate process, including the Office of the Sport Integrity Commissioner (OSIC) for applicable cases involving the Universal Code of Conduct to Prevent and Address Maltreatment in Sport (UCCMS).
Reporting a complaint can feel overwhelming. Find resources to help guide you through the process here.
If a concern or complaint is brought forward to a coach, official, volunteer, staff member, or board representative, it must be referred to the appropriate independent reporting process and not handled internally.
Speed Skating Sask is committed to ensuring all concerns are handled fairly, confidentially, and through an independent process that prioritizes participant safety and wellbeing.