Safety Captain Apprentice Program

[robochick1319]

Originally Posted by littlemissLish

I'm not sure I'm completely understanding what you're saying here sorry.

Sorry for being unclear. Let's say a team has a great safety captain who writes a custom team manual, conducts training, makes pit improvements, etc. When that safety captain graduates and leaves the team, who takes over that responsibility? If you assign a freshman/rookie member as the safety captain can they do what the previous captain did? Do they have the knowledge and leadership experience? Or is your team starting a safety program from scratch (new manual, new training style, etc.)?

If you have a veteran/senior safety captain training an underclassman/rookie DURING their final season, then the next safety captain can take over the next year with the experience and knowledge to do it well. Having a mentor to support this process is also helpful since they can bring years of knowledge and ideas to maintain the current safety program and make suggestions on how to improve.

[littlemissLish]

Originally Posted by robochick1319

Do they have the knowledge and leadership experience? Or is your team starting a safety program from scratch (new manual, new training style, etc.)?

If you have a veteran/senior safety captain training an underclassman/rookie DURING their final season, then the next safety captain can take over the next year with the experience and knowledge to do it well. Having a mentor to support this process is also helpful since they can bring years of knowledge and ideas to maintain the current safety program and make suggestions on how to improve.

We don't start from scratch, that new,*trained* member is trained with what er have, what they need to learn, and all that stuff. the apprentice has experience from being trained as one, we currently do not have a mentor for safety because we are low on mentors. However i will come back and mentor after i graduate.