Clubs are required to supply a minimum of 1 safety officer per 10 nippers entered for the Nipper Surf events taking place from 28^th – 30^th April 2025 at King’s Beach. The names of the safety officers must be completed on the relevant template (obtainable from your club) and forwarded to the Lifesaving Eastern Cape on lifesavingec@gmail.com  before the 7^th April 2025. 

Brief description of a Safety Officer:

• The Safety officers (SO) are required to have either a LA or a JLA award.  Both LA/JLA SO’s must be strong surf proficient swimmers.
• The SO’s will be on duty on the 3 surf arenas whilst all water events are taking place.
• A minimum of 10 SO will be in the water with a Torpedo buoy (your club must supply) during an event.
• SO need to be available for the 3 days of nipper events, they are to report to Tess in the main tent area at the club house every morning for a briefing of the day’s events and where they are needed and what is required of them
• In brief SO’s are on duty to ensure that all nippers taking part in water events are kept safe.
• Please ensure that the SO has a wetsuit, they do get cold and cannot leave the arena during an event.
• A specific tent will be provided for the SO to relax in while not in the water.  This is to ensure that all SO are kept together should the program change, we cannot be running around looking for SO
• Duty hours will be counted for the next seasons duty requirements, each SO must sign on and off daily in the duty book provided. 
• The first day reporting and briefing will take place the main tent at the club house, 45min before the managers/to meeting.  Thereafter everyone to meet in the designated SO tent on the beach.