Lasso Safe Launches Program to Monitor Athlete Safety

Lasso Safe has announced the launch of the Sports Wellness Platform, a scientific-based service for the recognition, monitoring and betterment of sport participant experiences. The safe sport organization’s tool, created after years research, will allow event organizers to monitor the safety and well-being of participants at their events by gauging their emotional, physical and social health.

According to Lasso Safe, athletes experience abuse in sports with rates up to 72 per cent for psychological abuse, 30 percent for sexual abuse, and 21 percent for physical abuse.

The new Sports Wellness Platform is designed to recognize sport participants’ mental, physical and social experiences on the spectrum of healthy to harmful, before they escalate to high-level concerns. With the program, participants are surveyed with a series of questions that are designed to recognize early signs of potential abuse. With the intelligence, the company aims for sports organizations to execute a culture that supports safer, more prosperous environments. Lasso Safe’s research shows that organizations who maintain a positive SWP score are 14 times more profitable and share a four times greater economic impact; their athletes’ mental health improves 50 percent and they maintain 56 percent longer professional careers.

“SWP is very timely and ahead of the curve on current issues.” Luke Bodensteiner, a two-time Olympian and chief of sport development at Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation.

SWP’s research and development was conducted over 14 years, across 32 countries and with thousands of sports participants and their organizations, in partnership with universities and scientists in each region.

“SWP is intuitive and gave me insights into my sports career that I didn’t know I had,” said Luis Hernandez, a six-time national champion in figure skating and SWP athlete representative.