Sports injuries are a public health problem in Victoria.
However, little information is available about community level sports injuries. The sports safety activities that community level sports organise, undertake or provide for is also not fully known. Safe, Sport' project, before its sport safety promotional activities. This is the first survey of safety practices of sporting clubs and centres at the community level in Victoria. A major finding is that whilst sports bodies perform certain activities typically associated with preventing sports injuries, they do not have formal policies or written objectives which recognise the safety of their participants as an important goal.