Do you really want this though? Imagine a rugby game - high tackles, punches or shoulder charges concussing players. AFL games with elbows to jaws, sling tackles concussing players. These are all technically assaults. Who in their right mind would play a physical contact sport where there is a chance players could end up being criminally prosecuted?
Being a director of a mining company, where it is inevitable a worker will die under my watch I think about that line all the time. Heavy machinery, bush fire, kidnap and terrorism are the things that keep me focused for staff safety.
Imagine if a dozen people died at a mine site and on current affair a director said "I did nothing despite knowing the risks". They'd be crucified on Current Affair, crucified in the civil courts and criminal courts.......and so they should be.
The same laws that oversee mining, oversee the AFL. If a players died from a Jonas, Gaff, Hall, Matthews etc type incident, I dare say jail time for AFL bosses would follow.
Personally I would draw the line at "act of one's own folly" vs "part of the game". I think most of us can see what is football and what is criminal assault.

