Here in FFR (France’s Rugby Union) land, there is an obligatory training scheme.
Evaluing Front Row player’s skills, which include a scrum machine which regularly tours the country to visit all clubs and promote the idea of scrum safety. Suitably meaning as well trained and with as much experience as possible, before that all important match day baptism of fire.
This (procédure) is for the grassroots game. I know
underage and
mini/midi/maxi have their own programmes, so presumably Professional Rugby(Levels 1, 2 & 3) have strict training and assessment programmes too. See
International training camp example