A message from the directors

Sandridge Lifesaving Club - Event Services Division

Sandridge Life Saving Club is a not for profit organization run to benefit the community, and to help those among us when they are in need, while also promoting healthy living and community involvement.

Located in Port Melbourne, Victoria, our club has been proven as a reliable and dedicated safety organization and adheres to the strictest of organizational guidelines as set by the prime national life saving body - Surf Life Saving Australia - and that of the state life saving body - Life Saving Victoria, as well as the high standards we set for ourselves. With our extensive experience on the beach and among the action, our services are well equipped for most initial response situations, related to sporting, social and corporate events. Our volunteers do their best to make sure that your event is a safe and enjoyable experience for all.

Experience the fully equipped professionalism that Sandridge LSC members bring to your event, catering to the safety needs of your guests and staff. All of our Event First Aid Service teams feature experienced Senior First Aid certificate holders, as well as members trained and experienced in the use of Oxygen, Spinal Extraction and Defibrillation Equipment, leaving you with the sound knowledge that your guests and attendees will be well looked after in the event of an emergency. Furthermore, each member of our team is trained in communications, first aid, resuscitation, oxygen apparatus use, aquatic rescue and retrieval, risk assessment, safe practise and emergency management.

Thank-you so much for your consideration of our service, and we hope to see you swimming between the flags sometime soon.

Sincerely,

Banjo Anderson
Director of Lifesaving

How we can assist your event

Sandridge Life Saving Club offers a wide range of First Aid, Event Safety Coordination and Water Safety services to help make your event as safe as possible. It is a core belief of ours that no event is too small, and event should be a safe one. With qualified, enthusiastic and experienced staff, you can trust that your guests and staff will be well looked after.

Sandridge Life Saving Club provides specialised services for many kinds of events, including:

• School and Corporate Beach Days
• Triathlon and Endurance Events
• Sporting Team Beach Recovery sessions
• Rowing Regattas
• River Activities
• Community and Commercial Sporting Events
• Corporate Fun Days
• School Events
• Social Events
• Fetes, Markets and Carnivals
• Dance Parties
• Musical Concerts and Festivals
• Shire and Council Festivals

As well as the above, our Account Department can help design the right package for your unique event, knowing that every event is different - as well as your expectations and requirements. They will work with you to make certain that we plan the best and most suitable service for your event to ensure the upmost levels of safety of all your staff and guests.

Featuring specialised medical, rescue, retrieval and safety equipment, our services are designed to meet your needs for a practical, affordable and high quality service.

We are eager to help you with your event as best we can, so that it may be remembered for all of the right reasons.

Staff specifications

Team Members

All of our highly motivated, professional and experienced volunteers must meet our clubs own stringent guidelines before we will dispatch them to your event. Each member of our event teams holds these minimum qualification requirements:

• Surf Life Saving Australia Bronze Medallion
  or
  Royal Lifesaving Society Bronze Medallion
  or
  Level One First Aid
• Radio Operator's Certificate
• Current Resuscitation Certificate
• Physical guidelines of a Bronze SLSA rescue test ¹

Furthermore, each team will have a minimum of one member holding the following:

• Level 2 First Aid Certificate (or Senior First Aid Certificate)
• Advanced Resuscitation Certificate (Including advanced Asthma Management)
• Defibrillation Certificate
• IRB Driver and IRB Crew award ²

Where possible, each team will also have a minimum of one member holding one or more of the following:

• Spinal Management Certificate
• SLSA Gold Medallion Award
• Australian Driver's License
• Sports Medicine Australia - Level One Trainers' Certificate

As required, each team may also include more highly qualified members and other medical professionals.

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¹ 200M Run - 200M Swim - 200M Run (in less than 8 minutes) and a 150M patient Retrieval.
² Only for appropriate "Deep Water Events" - Please note, these events may incur a relevant surcharge.

Introduction

At the core of a safety plan for any aquatic event is the lifesaving mantra:

• Prevention
• Recognition
• Rescue

Sandridge Event Services can help you plan your event with thorough safety assessments. This process helps determine effective and practical risk management strategies to ensure that any emergency is dealt with in the most efficient way possible.

Detailed plans for Aquatic Emergencies are often overlooked in event planning, with major focus placed on medical emergencies. This inevitably leads to the poor execution of responses by event staff such situations.

Sandridge Life Saving Club Event Services attempts to minimise the risks of lowered patient care by employing strategies, specific to the aquatic environment, that:

• Enable fast responses through: recognition of incidents; rescue of patients; retrieval to a location in which dangers are controlled and minimal; and the high level of care, on which we pride ourselves.
• Identify roles of staff members in emergencies.
• Identify communication strategies in emergencies.
• Identify exit and evacuation plans for your staff and patrons, as well as med-evac plans for patient transport in the event of an emergency.

These, combined with our expertise and experience in aquatic safety give allow you to breathe easy knowing that "it's covered".

Equipment

Aquatic Environment Supervision, Rescue and Retrieval requires specialised apparatus with which our organization is well equipped.

Depending on your event, we are able to provide:

• Recue Tubes
• Soft "G-Board" Rescue Boards
• Fibreglass Recue Boards
• Inflatable Recue Boats (IRB) with 25 horse power Yamaha "Surf Kit" motors. ³
• Supervision Platforms ⁴
• Safe Water Buoys
• Hazard Markers
• All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) response units ¹
• All Terrain Vehicle compatible IRB trailers¹
• Safe Water Flags (Red and Yellow)
• Signal Flags
• Radios with Water Proof Holsters ⁵

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¹200M Run - 200M Swim - 200M Run (in less than 8 minutes) and a 150M patient Retrieval.
³ Subject to availability.
⁴ Our preference is for our employer to supply this equipment.
⁵ We are currently looking at improving our radio network to incorporate more radios with a view to supplying one to the event controller as well as all crew members.

Introduction

Injuries in this world are very common. Our first aid and medical teams are capable and confident First Aiders, trained under Surf Lifesaving Australia's stringent guidelines, on a nationally recognized program structure. Our team members are able to help address any incidents in a thorough, appropriate and timely manner.

With experience from the beach to the sporting field and triathlon events, as well as everything in between, our members are qualified and able to assist in many medical situations. Rest assured that in the event of an emergency, our medical and first aid staff will be in quick attendance, maximizing the chances of critical patients' survival, and seeking to assist all those with injuries.

While most major injuries will be referred to other care agencies (i.e. ambulance agencies, hospitals and doctors' surgeries); Sandridge Life Saving Club is able to provide a high quality and timely first response to incidents with potentially life-saving equipment. While strictly non-medicinal, our organization is able to deal with many minor injuries on site, with referrals being given where required.

Sandridge Life Saving Club has access to staff from many professional medical fields, including physiotherapists through to paramedics, allowing us to ensure you and your guests receive the specialised care they need.

Please talk to us about medical professionals you may require for your event.

Equipment

Appropriate and high quality equipment, as well as the maintenance of it, is an intricate part of first aid services in order to provide the highest levels of care possible to our patients.

As such, Sandridge LSC undertakes to ensure that our equipment is always fully accessible, operational and well stocked where applicable.

Our standard service package includes the following.

• 1st Aid Kit (Fully Serviced and Stocked)
• Spinal Board and Collars
• Oxygen Regulator Kit with Bottle
• Radios with holsters and protectors - One per crew member. ⁵
• First Aid Logging and Recording
• Shelter/Tent ^3,4
• Signage
• Trauma Kit
• Defibrillator
• Member Equipment
  • 1 x Radio with holster
  • 1 x First Response "Bum-Bag" Kit

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³ Subject to availability.
⁴ Our preference is for our employer to supply this equipment.
⁵ We are currently looking at improving our radio network to incorporate more radios with a view to supplying one to the event controller as well as all crew members.

Introduction

Safe practise doesn't just start when your event does. It should start from the beginning of setup. Sandridge LSV Event Services are able to help assess the safety requirements for your event, as well as the current capabilities of your staff.

The average event will incorporate many different staff with varied roles, associated with different organizations, and with different levels of training and instruction. In the event of an emergency, it is essential that these different component of the event all work together to ensure the best possible outcome for any medical or safety emergency in the lead up to or during your event.

We have the capabilities of providing a central control centre for your event operations as well as appropriate equipment. This will ensure open and steady tracking of your event progress, and will optimise the efficiency of all safety and general operations and communications.

For more information on our safety coordination capabilities, please contact our office.

How to plan a safe event with Sandridge Event Services

The process of building a safe event with Sandridge Life Saving Club.

1. Book an "Initial Planning Appointment" with the Director of Lifesaving and/or the Executive Officer by calling our office on (03) 9820 6363.

2. Fill in the Special Event Booking Application Form for your event.

• This must be returned to the Executive Officer or Director of Lifesaving prior to the Initial Planning Appointment.

Complete Steps 3 to 5 after your Initial Planning Meeting as instructed by our office staff.

3. Prepare a detailed description of your event, possible concerns with a description of the service you may wish to employ, and the role you may wish our staff to play within your event.

4. Prepare a map of your event location. This should include:

• Exits
• High Set Locations (Surveillance/Viewing Points - If any)
• Major Event Areas (e.g. Stages, Playing Fields, etc.)
• Locations of other Services (e.g. First Aid Rooms, Command Posts, Toilets, etc.)
• Ambulance access.

5. Submit these three documents to us at:

• PO Box 5057, Garden City 3207
  Office Ph: (03) 9820 6363
  Email: eventservices@sandridge.org.au

Client account managers and staff

We hope at Sandridge LSC to make all of your dealings with us as informative, and helpful. Our club's structure exists to make your experience as easy and stress free as possible. In order to achieve this, we have devised a simple two-level account management system for your next event. Should you have any questions, please contact our office.

Executive Officer and Director of Lifesaving
Event Administrative Assistance

Responsible for:

• Bookings
• Service Administration
• Inquiries
• Billing and Payments
• Record Requests

These are your two major administrative contacts that will help you design and organize an Event First Aid Plan to suit the specific and unique needs of your event. These plans are an important part of the event planning process as they include suggested ratios of First Aid Crew Members to patrons, emergency action plans, and plans for equipment and Crew Members required at your venue. In many ways, our administrative assistants will be your greatest resource to help guide you through the planning process for your event.

You can reach all of our Directors and Officers at our office on: (03) 9820 6363.

Event Account Manager
Special Needs Support and Event Day Assistance

Responsible for:

• Event day co-ordination - Your Event Account Manager will be the team leader for your event crew and will manage services at your event.
• Attending and Assisting at all major/minor incidents that may occur at your event.
• Ensuring correct equipment and personnel are present and operational at your event.

It is our goal to have an Event Account Manager assigned to each of our clients to help you build a working relationship with those who will be managing First Aid Services at your event. It is important to have a good relationship with your Event Account Manager, and we will do our best to help with this, making your event run even more smoothly.

Booking application form

Download: Event Services Booking Application Form (pdf 46KB)