Technical Members: Criminal Record Check and Safe Sport Requirements

Criminal Record Check and Safe Sport Requirements

Every Coach, Official, and Sport Leader membership requires two things:

  1. A current Criminal Record Check with Vulnerable Sector Check on file with BC Athletics
  2. Completed CAC Safe Sport Training

Your membership remains PENDING until both are in place.

What "pending" means

A pending membership is not a membership. Until both requirements are met:

  • You are not a BC Athletics member and cannot access member benefits, including insurance.
  • You cannot coach, officiate, or act as a sport leader.
  • Operating with a pending membership jeopardises the insurance coverage of any club you are affiliated with.
  • Technical memberships not converted from pending to issued within three months of registration are cancelled without refund.

1. Criminal Record Check with Vulnerable Sector Check

Who needs one

  • Required for all members aged 19 and over holding a Coach, Official, or Sport Leader membership.
  • Recommended but optional for members under 19. If you are under 19 and choose not to complete one, please indicate this on the request form.

How it works

  • Submit the Request for a Criminal Record Check form.
  • New members who have never had a CRC on file can register first, but the membership stays pending until the CRC is complete.
  • Renewing members must renew an expiring CRC before renewing their membership. Once a CRC expires, the membership reverts to pending.
  • A CRC is valid with BC Athletics for five years.

2. Safe Sport Training

All Coach, Official, and Sport Leader members must complete CAC SafeSport Training.

  • Log in or sign up to the NCCP Locker and complete the course. You need an NCCP number to take it. Create one here if you don't have one.
  • Set your sport to Athletics.
  • Once complete, email cristi.lundman@bcathletics.org to confirm.

  • Already completed SafeSport through another sport? You do not need to retake it, as long as it appears as completed on your Locker transcript.

To ask a question or have an update applied to your membership, contact cristi.lundman@bcathletics.org.