The blue card program has been piloted in rugby games in Ontario for the past three years, with match officials handing the card to a player who’s showing signs or symptoms of a concussion.
Rugby Canada plans to expand its blue card program next year after piloting it in Ontario. A match official can give a player a blue card if they're showing signs or symptoms of a concussion.
Officials are required to include the details of the card in their match report. That information is filtered into a database that adds a flag to the player's name, preventing them from being added to a new game sheet until they've gone through a return-to-play process, which involves being seen by a doctor or nurse practitioner.
Rugby Canada knew it had to learn from Rowan's death to try to make the sport safer, according to Jackie Tittley, the sport organization's manager of training and education."[The blue card program] gives us a better ability to track and monitor those players and ensure that they get the care that they need and the clearance that they need to safely return to our game," she told CBC Sports.
Rugby Canada already had a policy in place to remove athletes from play if they were suspected to have sustained a concussion, but Rowan's Law pushed the organization to take it a step further and come up with a way to better follow athletes after a possible injury, Tittley said. Rugby player and University of Toronto PhD candidate Michael Jorgensen has been studying the implementation of the blue card program in Ontario.
At first, he said match officials had concerns around liability and whether they'd be qualified to detect concussion symptoms. He believes many concerns have been addressed since the program was fully implemented throughout the province and officials have received more education.
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