Safety boundary
Sideline Compass provides general education. It cannot monitor conditions, assess symptoms or injury, contact emergency services, provide first aid, supervise youth, or clear anyone to participate or return to play.
How to use a gate
Before identifies a plan or condition to confirm. During names what responsible adults should continue to watch. Stop marks the point where activity or app use gives way to real-world assistance.
Eight general gates
Each topic requires current, context-specific judgment from people with actual responsibility and information.
Before: know the venue, responsible adult, current plan, and how local emergency services are reached.
During: keep youth supervised and follow qualified directions.
Stop: seek immediate help for urgent danger, serious injury, breathing difficulty, loss of consciousness, or any emergency concern.
Before: review the provider’s current concussion and removal-from-play procedure.
During: athletes report any hit or concerning change to an adult.
Stop: remove from participation and follow qualified medical and return-to-play guidance.
Before: check conditions, shade, water, breaks, equipment, and the organizer’s heat plan.
During: watch changing conditions and preserve a no-pressure exit.
Stop: respond to confusion, fainting, severe weakness, vomiting, worsening symptoms, or adult concern.
Before: use required, approved, correctly fitted equipment for the current activity.
During: follow manufacturer and qualified-adult instructions.
Stop: remove damaged, altered, contaminated, missing, or poorly fitted equipment from use.
Before: check current lightning, air, temperature, visibility, field, traffic, and facility conditions.
During: follow local warnings and organizer decisions.
Stop: leave when conditions change, shelter is unavailable, or the responsible adult cancels.
Before: confirm driver, restraints, passengers, destination, supervision, pickup, and current contacts.
During: use clear adult-to-adult handoffs.
Stop: halt the transfer when authorization, vehicle, destination, or responsibility does not match.
Before: use transparent, guardian-aware channels and safeguarding procedures.
During: keep meetings observable and appropriate.
Stop: report grooming, abuse, harassment, retaliation, discrimination, or boundary violations.
Before: confirm consent, purpose, audience, retention, and removal.
During: minimize identifiers and protect routines, contacts, documents, and live location.
Stop: do not share when consent is absent, access is uncontrolled, or a minor is pressured.