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Steve Johnson
06-09-2013, 04:43 PM
At the last fall and spring IAC board meetings, the Policy & Procedure manual was changed to reflect having an IAC Safety Representative as a required member of all contest juries. The IAC board asked that the IAC Rule Book be modified as well to reflect the P&P changes. The proposed IAC Rule Book changes for the contest juries are shown below. Please post any comments in this forum, or email Steve Johnson, IAC Safety Chair, at gjunkie1@aol.com.

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1.4 CONTEST JURY
The Contest Jury will consist of a chairman and at least four (4) additional members. Alternate jurors may be appointed when required to replace a juror involved in a protest or otherwise unable to serve for whatever reason (including a conflict of interest).

Add at the end of 1.4, add:
1.4(a) An IAC safety representative shall be a member of any contest jury. The IAC Safety Chair should be the first selection as the jury member. Should the IAC Safety Chair not be available, another IAC safety representative shall be selected for the jury, in the order listed below:
1. The IAC Safety Chair
2. An IAC Regional Safety Coach
3. The contest Safety Director, as appointed by the Contest Director

1.4 (b) The safety representative shall be a required member of any contest jury. In case of a conflict, the selected jury safety representative may be replaced, for the length of the single specific safety conference, by another safety representative, which must be one of the members noted in 1, 2 or 3 above, in the order listed above.

1.4 (c) The IAC Regional Safety Coaches will be identified by the IAC Safety Chair, and will be updated at the beginning of each calendar year.


1.4 (d) The list of current IAC Regional Safety Coaches can be requested from the IAC Safety Chair.




1.4 CONTEST JURY
The Contest Jury will consist of a chairman and at least four (4) additional members. Alternate jurors may be appointed when required to replace a juror involved in a protest or otherwise unable to serve for whatever reason (including a conflict of interest).

1.4(a) An IAC safety representative shall be a member of any contest jury. The IAC Safety Chair should be the first selection as the jury member. Should the IAC Safety Chair not be available, another IAC safety representative shall be selected for the jury, in the order listed below:
1. The IAC Safety Chair
2. An IAC Regional Safety Coach
3. The contest Safety Director, as appointed by the Contest Director

1.4 (b) The safety representative shall be a required member of any contest jury. In case of a conflict, the selected jury safety representative may be replaced, for the length of the single specific safety conference, by another safety representative, which must be one of the members noted in 1, 2 or 3 above, in the order listed above.

1.4 (c) The IAC Regional Safety Coaches will be identified by the IAC Safety Chair, and will be updated at the beginning of each calendar year.


1.4 (d) The list of current IAC Regional Safety Coaches can be requested from the IAC Safety Chair.



This rule change ensures that an IAC Safety Representative is a member of all contest juries. The IAC Safety Representative hierarchy (IAC Safety Chair, IAC Regional Safety Coach, Contest Safety Director) requires the IAC Safety Chair to be the first safety representative selected, if possible. Further, in the case of a conflict during a jury conference or deliberation, there is a mechanism in place to substitute a safety representative with another, for the duration of the specific jury conference.



Also, the attached file may be easier to read. Thanks, Steve Johnson, IAC Safety Chair

Martin Price
06-10-2013, 01:07 PM
Makes sense to me. That's effectively exactly what we just did this weekend at Coalinga. Should there be a similar update to the effect that the contest Safety Director should be the IAC Safety Chair or Safety Coach if one is available?

WLIU
06-10-2013, 05:20 PM
I would suggest, as one of the guys who has been recruited as a regional safety coach, that contest safety directors should be someone who is NOT otherwise affiliated with the IAC safety program. Why? Because that widens the population of safety oriented folks and gets more eyes on what is going on at a contest.

Steve has been recruiting pilots to be safety coaches but as with all volunteer activities the salary isn't get a lot of candidates excited. So requiring contest directors to recruit an additional safety volunteer potentially feeds more folks into the program.

My $0.02.

Wes
IAC 10467