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Mandatory safety gates
Ten universal requirements must be met. A critical failure cannot be hidden by a high score elsewhere.
The MindsMelt Standard
A wellbeing promise is not enough. Show how it works.
The draft Standard turns athlete mental wellbeing into a system an organisation can understand, improve and—at the highest level—have independently verified.
5
pillars
20
indicators
80
tier requirements
120
question bank target
What it examines
Five parts of one athlete experience
Each pillar contains four indicators. Together they test whether support is accessible, understood, governed, ready for crisis and felt in everyday culture.
P01
Athlete Support Systems
Checks whether qualified, confidential help exists and whether athletes can actually reach it.
4 indicators
P02
Staff Training & Awareness
Checks whether the people around athletes can notice concern, respond safely and refer within their role.
4 indicators
P03
Policy, Governance & Accountability
Checks whether wellbeing has ownership, resources, athlete voice and board-level accountability behind it.
4 indicators
P04
Crisis Response & Safeguarding
Checks whether serious concerns trigger a rehearsed, country-correct response with clear safeguarding accountability.
4 indicators
P05
Culture & Environment
Checks the daily climate: openness, transition support, workload decisions and whether the organisation measures what athletes experience.
4 indicators
No loopholes
Three tests. All three must hold.
The draft model combines safety gates, minimum pillar performance and an overall maturity threshold. Strong performance in one area never erases a dangerous gap in another.
02
A floor in every pillar
Every pillar must reach the target level. Excellent governance cannot compensate for an unsafe crisis response.
03
Evidence and experience
Policies show intent. Records, practice, staff knowledge and—at higher assurance levels—athlete experience show whether it works.
Current status
Published in draft. Built to be challenged.
The architecture is a working specification, not an approved clinical standard. Gates, thresholds and the full requirement set remain subject to council review, expert validation, an Angoff exercise and founding-cohort evidence.
Start with improvement, not an award claim.
The free self-assessment is private, indicative and designed to reveal gaps. It is not eligibility, an audit result or certification.