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Regatta Safety Quiz

Welcome to the Rowing ACT Regatta Safety Quiz

This quiz is designed to remind everyone on the ACT waterways about safety on the waterways, because safety is everyone's responsibility!

If you want to review the safety guidelines and reminders head to Safety

Other pages with safety information include the Maps and Guides Page

Name

Email

1.

Which club are you from?

2.

What is your role within your club?

3.

Who is your club's safety officer?

1 out of 3

4.

[General Safety]

Which specific policy/policies are rowers and coaches required to abide by when on-water?

Rowing Australia On-Water Code of Conduct

Rowing Australia On-Water Safety Code and Guidelines

Rowing ACT Rules, Regulations and By-laws

All of the above

None of the above

5.

[General Safety]

What other policies are individuals required to abide by when on the water?

National Integrity Framework

Member Protection Policy

Child Safeguarding Policies

Complaints, Disputes and Discipline Policy

All of the above

6.

[General Safety]

If you are involved in an incident or near miss on water, under the Rowing Australia guidelines what should you do?

Tell no one

Tell your friends or crew mates

Report the incident to your club safety officer. They may require you to report the incident to Rowing ACT

Yell at the other crew involved that it wasn't your fault

7.

[General Safety]

What is considered a near miss or incident?

Capsizing or swamping a rowing boat in winter, cpasizing or swmaping a coaching boat at any time, a collision between boats, a near miss that could have resulted in a collision, material damage to a boat, serious injury

Tinny wash that doesn't cause a capsize, debris which can be avoided, kangaroos in the lake

8.

[General Safety]

What conditions are NOT safe to row in, and in which Rowing ACT heavily discourages going out in?

Heavy Fog

Heavy rain, especially when accompanied by wind

Strong wind conditions, with visible white caps on the water

Stormy weather

Without a coach or another crew between May and September

All of the above

2 out of 3

9.

[Regatta Safety]

When entered in a regatta, does your boat need to meet the minimum safety requirements as set out by Rowing Australia? These requirements include bow balls, heel ties, cox seat openings, bungs etc.

Yes, at every regatta

Only at Championship regattas

No, there is no minimum requirements for boats

10.

[Regatta Safety]

What traffic flow does Rowing ACT run on regattas, when held on the course at Yarramundi Reach?

Normal Traffic Flow - travel to the start line in Lane 1, closest to the arboretum

Reverse Traffic Flow - travel to the start line off Lane 7, beside Weston Park

11.

[Regatta Safety]

Where can you practise starts and race pieces during Regattas?

In the middle of the course as long as there is no races coming

In the marshalling areas, beside the course so I can hear when my race is being called

In the designated warm-up areas in Nursery Bay and in front of Scrivener Dam and Government House

12.

[Regatta Safety]

At the crossover point on the finish line, do you cross on the Finish Line or Black Mountain Peninsula side of the buoy?

Finish Line side

Black Mountain Peninsula Side

3 out of 3

Time's up

November 10, 2023/by Executor Officer

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