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All crew are expected to tie secure recognised/named knots, everyone should be able to tie a
bowline and a reef knot as a minimum as these are safe and secure knots.

Always ensure that carabiners are fully tightened up and that all straps are secure.

Beware rope around legs.
Beware heavy sharp weights – back strain, injury to legs, and damage to equipment.

Beware race boats after incidents look out for sharp propellers, carbon fibre spikes and rough
edges, fire - do not approach beyond a safe distance, use the fire extinguisher as soon as
possible, where possible switch off the isolator switch to stop fuel pump and electrics

When positioning an Osprey boat during a race or practice it is important to ensure that the
position of the boat does not expose the crew to any hazard and that the boat is positioned well
away from buoys and the racing line, special care needs to be taken during the start of a race.
Due to the dynamic nature of powerboat racing and the varied incidents that the team could face it
is acceptable to step outside the SOP where a dynamic risk assessment is carried out and
requires actions not recorded in the SOP. Justification for this deviation to the SOP must be
provided if required and the SOP must be resumed as soon as possible.

GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
Complete log for all incidents especially if injury; recording near-misses is a valuable way of
recognising and preventing accidents; any crew injury must be assessed by local medical
personnel.

For F1 races team manager must complete race report.

Expenses

All expenses must be submitted to the treasurer within 2 weeks of the expense being incurred or
returning to the UK whichever is the later.

All expenses must be completed on an Osprey Expenses sheet as either excel, PDF or a hard
copy document copies of which can be obtained from the treasurer.

All expense claims must be accompanied by a receipt for each element of expense.

All expenses such as visas, meals, transport etc incurred whilst at an F1 meeting outside of the
UK must be claimed using the standard expenses claim form within 2 weeks of returning to the
UK.

F1 TEAM MANAGER
Report to the treasurer the claim for daily meal allowances etc that needs to be billed to Idea
Marketing.

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