Australian Olympic gymnast Larrissa Miller knows first-hand how important is it to identify and prevent child abuse.
Miller was abused between age five to 16, outside of the sport, and is now backing a new partnership between Gymnastics Australia and child safety advocate Bravehearts to train staff and athletes to identify sex abuse.
"It is actually amazing to see the education that will come from this," Miller told AAP on Wednesday.
"It happens everywhere ... it could happen to anyone.
"Gymnastics is a really vulnerable sport because kids start out so young and they are told what to do. My heart is for these kids out on the competition floor ... to know and trust themselves."
The child-friendly tools will be shared with all 600-plus affiliated gymnastics clubs and 220,000 athletes from September.
Expert training will be mandatory for coaches and officials.
Information will be provided about child sex assault, risk factors and how to avoid them, identify grooming or predatory behaviour, how to respond to disclosures and understand signs of harm in children.
Gymnastics Australia chief executive Kitty Chiller told AAP at Wednesday's launch the first priority was to ensure all members - with 90 per cent under age 12 - felt safe, confident and empowered.
"We will do this and we need to get this done, whatever it takes to ensure we have the safest possible environment," she said.
Ms Chiller said she had no current concerns but it was naive to think it couldn't happen.
The move is in line with recommendations from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
It also comes after the notorious USA Gymnastics national team doctor Larry Nassar was accused of molesting at least 250 young athletes, including Olympic gymnasts. Last year he was jailed for 60 years after pleading guilty to child pornography charges.
Bravehearts founder Hetty Johnston said Gymnastics Australia had shown leadership in setting new benchmarks in child protection.
"What the royal commission has discovered is that you need children to understand their rights and when they feel unsafe or unsure to tell an adult. But then you need the adult trained to listen to them," Ms Johnston said.
"There isn't an institution anywhere, sporting or otherwise, that hasn't had a problem in this area. Predators will gravitate to where children are gathered."
Australian Associated Press
