Safety Captain Apprentice Program

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Originally Posted by littlemissLish

I'm not sure I'm completely understanding what you're saying here sorry.

Sorry for being unclear. Let's say a team has a great safety captain who writes a custom team manual, conducts training, makes pit improvements, etc. When that safety captain graduates and leaves the team, who takes over that responsibility? If you assign a freshman/rookie member as the safety captain can they do what the previous captain did? Do they have the knowledge and leadership experience? Or is your team starting a safety program from scratch (new manual, new training style, etc.)?

If you have a veteran/senior safety captain training an underclassman/rookie DURING their final season, then the next safety captain can take over the next year with the experience and knowledge to do it well. Having a mentor to support this process is also helpful since they can bring years of knowledge and ideas to maintain the current safety program and make suggestions on how to improve.