A spokesman for World Rugby said it took player safety very seriously at all levels of the sport. "With appropriate supervision and coaching, rugby is a sport that empowers young people ...

Objectives—When protective headgear is designed, the attitudes of the intended users needs to be taken into account, as well as safety performance criteria. The aim of this study was therefore to ...

By Priscilla Jepchumba The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU), working with the Welsh Rugby Players’ Association (WRPA) and World Rugby, ...

Shane Daly was entirely comfortable at having to miss the trip to Castres last weekend following a head knock on his 100th ...

and match doctors to determine what extra safety measures are required. In 2020, rugby league player Keith Titmuss collapsed and later died aged 20 after a training session with Australian club ...

Here's what you need to know. What is the background? Rugby union faces a crisis over safety, with hundreds of former players taking the game's governing bodies to court over the management of ...

SA Rugby established a Tackle Height Player Safety Task Team with representatives from coaching, refereeing, medical, women's rugby, strategic transformation and compliance, communications ...

These Law changes were based on the relatively high proportion of scrum-related catastrophic injury data collected as part of the BokSmart National Rugby Safety Programme over the preceding 4 years.

All rugby and football matches in Wales have been called off on Saturday, including Cardiff City's game against Watford, as ...