New safety rules

[alwaysinjured]

The document that Wynn has copied on here looks much better to me - it appears to accept that mistakes can occur and uses words such as 'so far as reasonably practical'. That goes along way to addressing the concerns I had which centred primarily around some of the stated requirements not being achievable on some occasions. The original version seemed to me to include some instructions that were impossible to obey but for which ROs would be blamed when they couldn't comply regardless. The new version seems to provide a degree of flexibility for ROs who make conscientious and reasonable efforts to do it right. I'm a lot happier because I was genuinely worried that some of our classic and best races might suffer - either by ROs understandably no longer being willing to put themselves forward or by being drastically altered to avoid 'hazards' or checkpoints where there are no communications.
Thanks to all concerned on the committee for their ongoing efforts. I realise this is still a draft but it does look as though some notice is being taken of comments made.

Thank fellhound for that, and I entirely agree with his general treatment of "courses" which is the way modern safety is in essence tackled. But beware the status - this only has status "suggested via the official route" it is not in any sense accepted by anyone - we shall have to wait for the "official reaction"

(it is a long time now since HASWA 74 replaced the prescriptive factory acts (equivalent of "courses MUST or MUST NOT", must be 2 marshalls etc) , with legislation eg 1992 six pack that detailed instead the range of issues that an employer must consider in his management of safety, assessment, highlighting hazards, supervision and so on...)