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MEMBERSHIP.

NEW MEMBERS
Individuals who desire to join the team need to submit a CV to the secretary.
The individual is the free to attend UK meetings to understand if they are suitable for the team
and for the team to get familiar with the individual.
At the next AGM the team can then confirm the individual as a provisional member.
The following year the individual will be termed a provisional member and is encouraged to
attend as many UK meetings, immersion tests and work parties as possible. The team will
endeavour to send the individual on a meeting abroad if they have completed the prerequisite
minimum basic life support and diver training.
The individual will stay as a provisional member until they are deemed by a majority of the team
to be of a suitable standard and personality to become a full member, this will usually be
achieved in less than 3 years, however in exceptional circumstances the could take up to 5
years.
During this provisional period the individual is not eligible for the daily allowance. Any
exceptions are totally dependent on finances and are at the discretion of the team management.

EXISTING MEMBERS
In order to maintain full membership of the team an individual must have the fulfilled the
following conditions within in the calendar year.
 Hold a current Basic Life Support Certificate (The Basic Life support training is valid for 24
months from the date of the training as reported by the Medical Officer.
 Take part in at least 1 immersion testing session as reported by the Immersion Testing
Officer.
 Attended a minimum of 4 days of UK national racing as a member of the Osprey Powerboat
Rescue Team crewing an Osprey boat as reported by the UK Manager.
 Members not achieving the conditions will become a provisional member losing their
 Voting rights and eligibility to the daily allowance.

FITNESS FOR YOUR ROLE IN OSPREY ACTIVITIES.

If you’re not up to your role in Osprey then you shouldn’t pretend to be able to perform that role.

The last thing we want is for a person below par to harm themselves further by pushing themselves
too much – or more importantly compromise a rescue – by failing to think or act efficiently in a
rescue – jeopardising the person being rescued and/or other members of the team.
Whether driver, radioman or diver on a boat, shore support, tea-maker or boat-towing with a trailer,
and at dunk tests, the team expects every person to be fit enough for their role. This means at any
time if you feel you are not able to perform your role at a reasonable standard then you should be
honest enough to inform your colleagues and stand down. If you appear to your colleagues to be
unwell enough to cause them concern in you performing your role then a team members group
decision that you should stand down must be accepted by that individual.

Standards of fitness are virtually impossible to define – a person can ‘pass’ a medical at one
moment in time but that does not mean they are always fit. For instance going down with ‘flu, having
a sprained ankle or other self- limiting illness or injury episode renders even a super-fit person