Club introduction

Session safety for clubs and regional response.

https://paddlesafe.uk/

Three questions

Who is on the water?

Are they all safely back?

If not, who alerts the coastguard or the police?

Worry and trust

Worry on one side. A rigid, overconfident plan on the other.

Planning turns the skill already in the club into one shared picture.

Four roles

Paddler. Join and mark safe. Keep your own safe-return link.

Leader. Plan, run, and close. Leader page and roster.

Duty. Shore oversight. Organisation duty and the live map.

Emergency operator. Regional view when a session needs attention. Emergency Dashboard.

One session, two lines

Leader: Plan → Join link → Start → Safe return → Complete

Paddler: Join → On the water → Mark safe

Start is the leader's step. Each person marks themselves safe.

This is an outing

Title, date, times, and spaces.

A named leader, and their level.

Launch, the map, and who is on duty.

Coaching adds aims, outcomes, and Skills Cards. That is Coaching overview.

The task

One leader.

Everyone else joins as a paddler.

The leader makes the outing. The others add themselves.

Done when everyone has marked safe, and the leader has completed the session.

Speaker notes

DEMO CARD. Open Notes for this slide, or print it.
Before you start: one device signed in as the leader. Phones for everyone else. Session type: Outing.
1. Leader creates the outing: title, today, start and end, a few spaces, launch.
2. Show the join link or QR.
3. Paddlers open the link, tick the privacy notice, and join. No website account needed.
4. Leader starts the session from the leader page.
5. Each paddler opens their safe-return link and marks safe.
6. Leader completes the session.
Done: every paddler marked safe, session complete. If you have a minute, show Past sessions, the club's names. A signed-in paddler can also open their own Log.
If join says sign-in closed, the trip is usually still on. Planning means new joins are paused. On the water means it has started. Contact the named leader.
Under-18s need a parent or the leader. The app does not call the coastguard. People call.

What we leave with

The app records. People decide.

https://paddlesafe.uk/

How did this go? https://paddlesafe.uk/app/feedback

Next talk: Coaching overview.