safety officer

ronn

Anyone know whats involved and required when your a safety officer in a gun club,,, done the nargc course just want to know whats involved and any tips would be very helpfull,

Mr Flibble

ronn wrote: »

, done the nargc course just want to know whats involved and any tips would be very helpfull,

Was it a bad course, or were you just not paying attention?

ronn

well if you done the course you would know that they dont actually do anything about a safety officers role in a gun club,
i was looking to see if anyone else is a safety officer and had information whats involved,
but thanks for your smart ass answer, your very helpfull, i hope you didnt go to too much trouble Mr. Fibble

foxshooter243

http://www.cpsa.co.uk/courses/safety-officers-course/33

Here is a link that give an overview of the safety officers role, its very general but it may help.

LB6

If you want to do a course for Safety Officer on a range - it wouldn't do any harm in getting in touch with the NASRPC/SSAI - they run SO courses and they will be able to give you more information. There is too much to say on here and the information you need would have to be given by a qualified person. Best of luck.

deeksofdoom

ronn wrote: »

Anyone know whats involved and required when your a safety officer in a gun club,,, done the nargc course just want to know whats involved and any tips would be very helpfull,

I'm one of a few safety officers in my club anyone that done the course got the safety officer gig. Basically if there is ever a spot of bother with someone shooting dangerously in the club you have to find out what happened, take the person to task and make sure nothing like it happens again. Please God you won't be needed and if something did happen I'm sure the NARGC or whatever crowd your with would be down to your club in a flash.

Your a funny man Mr. Fibble...........NOT!

foxshooter243

deeksofdoom wrote: »

I'm one of a few safety officers in my club anyone that done the course got the safety officer gig. Basically if there is ever a spot of bother with someone shooting dangerously in the club you have to find out what happened, take the person to task and make sure nothing like it happens again. Please God you won't be needed and if something did happen I'm sure the NARGC or whatever crowd your with would be down to your club in a flash.

Your a funny man Mr. Fibble...........NOT!

I would have thought that the safety officer was there to prevent accidents from happening, not firefighting after the event!

ronn

Thanks for the help lads,:)

deeksofdoom

foxshooter243 wrote: »

I would have thought that the safety officer was there to prevent accidents from happening, not firefighting after the event!

True, but I've been in a couple of gun clubs and I've never met a pro-active safety officer, have you?

LB6

Deeks - Every Safety Officer is pro-active - if they were not - there would be accidents and incidents all over the country on ranges.... Have you seen any??? NO???? then they're PRO-ACTIVE and doing their jobs right.

foxshooter243

deeksofdoom wrote: »

True, but I've been in a couple of gun clubs and I've never met a pro-active safety officer, have you?

We have a skeet layout and DTL,and a very good sporting complete with hightower and rabbit, we have two safety officers who oversee everything
and whose word is final, they are supported by club officers. They would have a proactive attitude towards their job, trying to stop an accident from happening and oversee everything before and during a shoot, even to the point of having four lads being told to leave the grounds and not return due to acting immaturely on a DTL one day- I would have thought that this is the way to go with club safety officers seeing as the old adage" prevention is better than a cure" sits well with this type of job, same as crime prevention officers and fire safety officers type of thing.
just my thought:)

deeksofdoom

foxshooter243 wrote: »

We have a skeet layout and DTL,and a very good sporting complete with hightower and rabbit, we have two safety officers who oversee everything
and whose word is final, they are supported by club officers. They would have a proactive attitude towards their job, trying to stop an accident from happening and oversee everything before and during a shoot, even to the point of having four lads being told to leave the grounds and not return due to acting immaturely on a DTL one day- I would have thought that this is the way to go with club safety officers seeing as the old adage" prevention is better than a cure" sits well with this type of job, same as crime prevention officers and fire safety officers type of thing.
just my thought:)

Sorry, I'm talking about normal run of the mill gun clubs as that's what I thought the OP was on about as well.

Fair enough we have a clay shoot once a year and the safety officers make sure that everyone on the shoot is behaving themselves.

But aside from organised ranges or clay shooting grounds, what do the safety officers in your club do?

cavan shooter

I did safety officer for a few years and basically this was it:

give a briefing to the guns on a fox drive/ clay shoot

usually common sense stuff at the clay shoots (exclusion zones etc)

keep guys up to date on issues that have happened, normally found by way of surfing the net reading magazines etc

give a briefing to new members based on the hand book and have spare copies available

have a bit to say at pre start of season meetings AGM etc on safety issues arising.

foxshooter243

deeksofdoom wrote: »

Sorry, I'm talking about normal run of the mill gun clubs as that's what I thought the OP was on about as well.

Fair enough we have a clay shoot once a year and the safety officers make sure that everyone on the shoot is behaving themselves.

But aside from organised ranges or clay shooting grounds, what do the safety officers in your club do?

That would be their main job right there, they would offer points of advice at meetings but wouldnt be really involved in the hunting end of things, as everyone goes off and does their own thing. It would be fair to say that their area of operations would be 99 percent inside our clay/club grounds.
As far as a gun club operating as a hunting only club-the safety officer may fall into the background somewhat id guess-points of view welcome from hunting only club members:D

cavan shooter

The safety officer should be doing in a game only club what I said above. As an absolute minimum No new member should be let out or in without a briefing on safety and handed a copy of the "hand book" I would go as far as have it explained to them.

Its like any position in a club, you get very few volunteers and sometimes (wrongly) seen as a position that just has to be filled.

However the Proficiency course does fall short of a course for safety officers. With the new Legislation I would guess this area will be re looked at by NARGC in the future.