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Introduction
The club takes very seriously it's responsibility with regard to health and safety and is committed to minimising the risk posed to all members while undertaking club activities. To this end the club has proceedures and processes in place to hopefully prevent any incidents from occuring or else deal with them effectively should they occur. As part of this commitment the club has discussed points of interest with a representative of the WCA to ensure that correct proceedures are followed.
Trip Leader
Each trip that is formally undertaken by the club will have an appointed trip leader who will usually be a qualified instructor appropriate to the trip being undertaken or else will be an experienced / competent paddler who is comfortable with both the conditions and leadership duties. The leader has the authority to modify or call of the trip if they are unhappy with the conditions, or alternatively they may ask members of the party to withdraw from paddling if they think that the trip will be inappropriate for them.
"The Leader has the final word"They will additionally ensure that all appropriate safety equipment is carried, that all members are suitably equiped and will be responsible for group management. This will include undertaking head counts throughout the trip and ensuring that the group does not become fragmented.
Incident & Accident Book
As part of the clubs health and safety strategy the club has to maintain an incident and accident book. All submitted incident / accident report forms will be formally recorded within the incident / accident book.
Incident Management
Unfortunately from time to time incidents can occur and as part of the clubs incident management strategy, the club requires that all incidents of any kind that occur on an event arranged by the club should be formally recorded and be reported to the governing body. To meet this provision an incident report form is available from this site for download. As soon as is practicable after the occurance of an incident, a copy of the form should be filled out by the appropriate person who attended the event on which the incident occured, before returning it to a suitable senior member of the club (e.g. a committee member) to be delt with appropriately.
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