Overview
Benefits
Blue Card (Working with Children Check)
Apply for an Officials Licence
Upgrading your Officials Accreditation
Officials Review Board
Code of Conduct
Officials Seminars
Overview
Motorcycling Queensland offers an extensive program to train and accredit officials in Queensland.
Motorcycling Queensland ensures that all race meetings, practice and coaching sessions occur in a safe, friendly and enjoyable environment. Achieving this objective ensures that competitors, officials and spectators alike will maximise their enjoyment of the sport.
Clubs are continually looking for enthusiastic individuals wanting to contribute. Becoming a licenced official is one such way you can assist our sport and your club.
Motorcycling, like most sports, relies heavily on the input of volunteers to ensure that race meetings and events continue to run efficiently.
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Benefits
There are many benefits associated with becoming an official such as:
- Being close to the action on race day (no one, apart from the riders get closer);
- Being part of an exciting and dynamic sport;
- Insurance coverage;
- Positive and worthwhile contribution to the sport of motorcycling;
- Establishing a pathway to higher levels of accreditation;
- Meeting other licenced officials, riders and motorcycling enthusiasts;
- Free entry at the event.
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Blue Card (Working with Children Check)
In 2003, the Queensland State Government introduced legislation that requires any person engaged in working (voluntarily and professionally) with children under 18 to apply for a Blue Card.
The Working with Children Check requires that all persons engaged in working with children complete a Blue Card application and undergo a Police screening process.
The screening process is undertaken to ensure that only suitable persons are placed in unsupervised positions with children.
Persons who pass the screening process are subsequently issued with a Blue Card, which remains current for a period of 2 years. After 2 years, individuals must re-apply to renew their Blue Card.
Motorcycling Queensland requires that any person applying for either an Officials or Coaches Licence must first apply for, and be issued with, a Blue Card.
Download a Blue Card Application Form.
More information on the Blue Card procedure is available from the Commission for Children and Young People and Child Guardian web site at www.ccypcg.qld.gov.au.
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Apply for an Officials Licence
Officials Licences cost $15, and they remain current for a period of 4 years.
First-time Officials Licence applications will be issued with an Official’s Journal (Log Book). The Journal enables officials to keep a record of experience and work that they have undertaken as an official at events.
The information contained within your Journal will be necessary should you decide to apply for an upgrade to your Officials Licence.
Applications for an Officials Licence must have a current Blue Card. See the Blue Card section above.
Officials Licence holders can apply to have their licence upgraded to higher levels of accreditation at any time, however such applicants need to have completed relevant Officials Training Seminars and have proof of practical experience in the roles for which they are applying for an upgrade.
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Upgrading your Officials Accreditation
You can make an application to Motorcycling Queensland to upgrade your Officials accreditation at any time. There is no fee for applying to upgrade your officials licence.
Applications to upgrade an officials licence must be submitted to Motorcycling Queensland on the National Officials Accreditation Scheme Upgrade Application.
Applications to be upgraded to Level 2 are considered at Motorcycling Queensland by the General Manager. Applications to be upgraded to Level 3 are assessed by the Officials Review Board.
Level 3 upgrade requests for Clerk of Course, Steward, Race Secretary and Scrutineer will need to provide a minimum of 2 on the job ‘Officials Assessments’ in each of the above areas for which they are applying for an upgrade.
Download an Officials Assessment Form.
Applications to be upgraded to Level 4 must be sent to the Motorcycling Queensland Officials Review Board for endorsement. These applications will then be forwarded to the Motorcycling Australia Officials Commission for final approval.
The following factors are considered when assessing an application for higher levels of accreditation:
1. Attendance at relevant Seminar(s) (within the last 4 years);
2. The pass marks achieved at those Seminars commensurate with the level that is being applied for:
Level 2 – 75% pass mark or better
Level 3 – 90% pass mark or better
Level 4 – 95% pass mark or better
3. Sufficient proof of practical experience in the position and discipline for which the applicant is applying for an upgrade.
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Officials Review Board
Motorcycling Queensland appoints an Officials Review Board (ORB).
The role of the ORB is to ensure that accredited officials throughout Queensland remain at a high standard, and that the training that is provided for all officials (via course content) is the most up-to-date and current information available.
The ORB meets on a monthly basis to consider requests from officials wanting to upgrade their accreditations to Level 3 and 4, and complaints and issues arising from events involving the performance of licenced officials.
Communication with the ORB is in writing via Motorcycling Queensland.
View the following link for a list of Motorcycling Queensland's sub-committees.
Code of Conduct
Motorcycling Queensland expects that all Officials involved in the sport of motorcycling in Queensland adhere to the Motorcycling Australia Code of Conduct.
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Officials Seminars
Motorcycling Queensland runs Officials Training Seminars throughout the state to train volunteer officials to the required national standard.
Attendance at all Motorcycling Queensland Officials Training Seminars is FREE of charge. Motorcycling Queensland provides all necessary course resources, as well as catering at the seminar.
There is no requirement to be a member of a Club or hold an Official Licence prior to attending Officials Training Seminars.
View the types of officials training seminars conducted by Motorcycling Queensland
View the 2009 Officials Seminar Schedule.
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