The Foundation Officiating course covers a range of general officiating topics, best-practice safety and risk management, club governance and event management. It gives Boardrider clubs the tools they need to run safe, high quality events for their members.

Your Clubs’ affiliation fee includes $20 Million Public Liability and $5 Million Professional Indemnity Insurance policy. The free Foundation Officiating course offers your club more coverage by proving to our insurer that we have competent officials at each and every club that have learnt the necessary skills to deal with the issues that we see in our ever changing surf environment.

Successful completion of the course for your club will help us to keep our Insurance premiums and hence affiliations as low as possible, without a qualified official at each club we risk large increases in insurance premiums and affiliations.

Accreditation Requirements
Below is the full list of courses and supporting documentation required to be a qualified active Foundation Club Official. 

• Completion of the Surfing Australia Foundation Official Course in the Surfing Learning Centre
• Completion of the Safeguarding Children and Young People in Sport Induction course in the Surfing Learning Centre (if you have completed this through Sport Integrity Australia, please email the certificate to your state branch).
• Current Working with Children Check* – your state/event organiser will confirm where this document needs to be stored

* Please note: The age requirement for who needs to hold a working with children check varies from state to state in Australia. Check this with your state branch.