Safety Matters

[alwaysinjured]

On enquiry, the Nine Standards RO reported no problems, so perhaps you could elaborate and provide feedback for the process qualification.

I heard that people were kept waiting because of trying to fill in the grids in real time. Also a significant problem is using grids in that context: predictably the marshalls eyes are mainly diverted to the grids not where they should be looking which is at the runners, and whether or not runners were actually missed in trying to do that, they clearly could be , which is what safety should focus on. What might happen as a result, not only what already has. Any review should focus on difficulties , not just times when systems actually broke and numbers were not recorded.

So the grids are not a real time recording method, and clearly there are limits to how fast they can be used. The generality is true. The rules make no reference to the proper use of the grids, which is as a post process on already recorded numbers.

Dont get me wrong. The grids are a fine idea, if the context is properly defined - and a specific someone is tasked to use them, and told what to do with the answer when they have it..

The main point is of my post of course, the secretary commment on planning was a non sequitur leading to a false conclusion on planning - but the failure to test operating procedures before declaring them as good practice is a serious problem too.

BTW felljunior. Well argued post on kit above. Although the duty of runners to each other is only one aspect.

What caused the main problem was not failure to carry kit : it was failure to retire when ordered and running round the course anyway, yet still calling a number which had effectively been scratched, giving potentially serious runner accounting problems. Both are a generality of the only rule that needs to exist for runners which is to obey the RO and her marshalls instructions as presented on entering, and on day.