Noosa Surf Life Saving Club has invested in an offsite training centre which is expanding to cater to emergency services, corporate clients and schools, alongside the expanding club which continues to grow in all areas including surf education and surf sports, club president Ross Fisher told club supporters at a breakfast meeting last Friday.
“Life saving is our core basis and the reason we exist,” he said. The summer drowning report showed there were 99 drowning deaths with the majority on coastal areas. It would have been much worse without the efforts of surf life savers who performed 5700 rescues, 25,000 first aid treatments and 1.3million preventative actions, he said.
In its 96 year history the Noosa club continues to boast no lives lost between the flags and its vision remains on service delivery to ensure zero preventable deaths, Ross said.
Recently engaged education officer Sam Cashman spoke about his role in surf education.
After working in the legal industry in Northern Territory Sam decided it was time to serve the community in some other capacity when the opportunity came up to work in surf education.
Sam told the meeting surf education fell into the areas of lifesaving training at club, commercial training and the schools surf education program.
He said at their new state-of-the-art commercial training centre built at Noosaville the club had teamed up with Allens Training (a company that delivers nationally accredited first aid and workplace health and safety courses), widening the scope to commercial businesses for training in workplace health and safety, first aid and fire safety and its future was looking bright.
Sam said thanks to sponsors the club had more than 3500 students go through its surf education program.
That’s 31 schools going through the program and a lot of students getting basic education of the beach,” he said.
“It’s a lot of remote and regional and international students as well as local students.”
Meeting MC Peter French said it was important to acknowledge the role of sponsors to our club.
“Your sponsorship enables us to deliver major programs across Noosa and beyond and deliver our life saving services, as well as provide assets for our sports competitors and programs,” he said.
