Club Safety Audit
The Club Safety Audit is a recognised part of each club’s affiliation and is launched annually in October for online submission. The latest Club Safety Audit went live on Tuesday, 8 October 2024.
The Club Safety Audit is based on RowSafe and covers all they key aspects within it.
All Club Rowing Safety Advisors (CRSAs) have now received an email detailing the process. If your CRSA has not received an email, please contact [email protected] and ensure that your club profile is up to date on ClubHub.
The audit must be completed, submitted online and accepted by your Regional Rowing Safety Adviser before 22 November 2024. Your Regional Rowing Safety Adviser (RRSA) will then contact you directly to confirm that your safety audit has been accepted.
Any clubs which do not submit their audit and have it accepted by the deadline, are suspended from racing from 11 December 2024. If there are legitimate reasons why your club will be unable to meet this deadline, it is essential that your RRSA is informed as early in the process as possible.
A full list of the questions that are included within the Safety Audit can be found here.
This year we have significantly reduced the number of questions within the Safety Audit process, with an emphasis now switching on a reliance of clubs utilising their club Google Drive as a space to upload relevant safety documentation and any other documentation the club sees fit.
This year individual clubs, host clubs and hosted clubs will all complete the same questions within the Safety Audit. If you are a hosted club, it is important to understand if the Host covers all Policies and the Safety Adviser or if the Host provides the facility, but the Policies and Safety Adviser are members of the Hosted Club. If you are a hosted club, you will need to liaise with your host to ensure you can answer the questions accordingly and provide relevant documentation.
Non rowing clubs will answer a shorter list of relevant questions when they confirm their non rowing status within the safety audit.
To complete your Safety Audit, you will need to have the following relevant documents ready to upload into your Google Drive:
- Safety Policy
- Club Safety Plan
- Emergency Response Plan
- Risk Assessments for Club Activities
- Risk Assessments for Training Camps (if applicable)
- Any other relevant supporting evidence (if applicable).
Information about the documents you need to have can be found here, in RowSafe. As mentioned, please utilise the Google Drive as space to upload any other safety documents and documentation that the club deems fit.
A guide to using the Google Drive can be found here.
If there are legitimate reasons why your club will be unable to meet this deadline, it is essential that your RRSA is informed as early in the process as possible. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact your Regional Rowing Safety Adviser (RRSA) or British Rowing on [email protected].
This year’s audit has been divided by region and a link to each can be found in the table below:
- East Midlands
- Eastern
- Northern
- North West
- Thames Central (London)
- Thames Lower (South East)
- Thames Upper (Upriver)
- South East Coast
- Wessex and Hants & Dorset
- Western
- West Midlands
- Wiltshire, Avon, Gloucestershire and Somerset (WAGS)
- Yorkshire
- British Overseas Territories/Non-Regional.
If you have any questions regarding the completion of the Safety Audit then please direct your questions to your Regional Rowing Safety advisor here or email [email protected].
