Service Hours

Other Service logs are used to record hours members contribute when engaged in other activities outside of patrol duties such as coaching, officiating, education etc.
Surfguard has recently been updated to allow for “other service” categories to be recorded. As such the following positions have been added and can now have hours allocated to them

TOC – Trainers (including Probationary)
ASS – Assessors (including Probationary)
PTAF – Probationary TAF
SME – Subject Matter/Content Experts
AM – Age Managers
COA – Volunteer Coaches
OFF – Officials (including Probationary)
CPM – Committee Members
WS – Water Safety for Education Courses
VCA – Volunteer Club Activity
PSO – Peer Support Officer
DPC – Development Program Coordinator

This will allow Clubs and Branches to log the hours that their members are contributing towards these areas of surf lifesaving.

It is important that Clubs ensure they have necessary log books and/or attendance sheets for any of the items that they are inputting. This may become relevant for proof if a review and/or audit is carried out on your logged hours.

Further, Clubs should ensure that they minute the hours that they are willing to accept towards competition hours. This is an individual decision of the Clubs.

Age Managers
To ensure that another form is not created – Age Managers can sign onto the Patrol Log with Nipper Water Safety ensuring that the acronym (AM) is next to their name.

Only Age Managers with the current Age Managers Accreditation can be allocated hours or for new Age Managers – only those that have completed both the Online Age Managers Award and Observers Award (until their Age Manager Accreditation is allocated).

For instructions on how to log other service hours, please click Here