Trial Of Remote Rescue Tubes/life Rings At Unpatrolled Beaches

Amelia Lorentson80:56

7.1, Trial of remote rescue tubes and life rings at unpatrolled beaches. My motion requests Council request the CEO to provide a report back to Council that investigates the opportunity to install remote rescue tubes and life rings at selected unpatrolled beach locations with the possibility of conducting a trial of a single site prior to their action. Can we have another request? Can we put up a photo of what the rescue tube actually looks like? It's part of the report, isn't it? There are a number of remote beaches in Noosa that are not regularly patrolled by other professional or volunteer lifesavers. This report will seek to address the risk of drowning incidents in uncontrolled areas or during out-of-hour periods through the use of remote supervision and self-service rescue teams. In northern New South Wales, a trial has been undertaken where either a rescue tube or lifeline is strategically placed on an uncontrolled beach to be used in case of a potential incident to save lives. The trial has been shown to have been successful and its proposal the same may be possible this in time. Noosa Shire. Before a child can be conducted, it's requested that a review be undertaken to inform a report that will be presented to the Councillors to determine where the trial should be conducted. The report will include a review of the existing trial that was conducted in New South Wales, identification of potential. Sites, an analysis of the potential cost, a comprehensive breakdown of all identified risks, and a review of potential stakeholders and partners. Part of my report, I've been requesting the CEO to, one, report on the feasibility of conducting such a trial, two, to consult. Insurers. Insurance. Consult that the council's insurers will support the initiative and confirm that no additional liability would be incurred should the units be damaged, stolen, or an incident occur while using the rescue teams. Three, seek expert's I've been talking with Greg hackford, the team leader of lifeguard services at coffs harbour for the last 12 months. He pioneered the project and has rolled about 77 of these flight ships across central New South Wales and northern New South Wales and he's happy to. Come Council and provide insights, guidance and actually help us to set this up. Explore emergency beacons. Explore using surfly state in Queensland emergency beacons. With the tubes and liferings. This will allow beach boat goers to contact emergency response by pressing a button. Just some background and I'm being provided in the report that I submitted to Council. Rescued tubes and liferings are widely used across Australia, europe and the united states as essential public rescue equipment. Yet for some reason Queensland is lagging in adopting these life-saving measures. Coffs Harbour has implemented a successful remote rescue tube project across the central and northern coastlines of New South Wales and similar initiatives. Are prevalent in places like hawaii, New Zealand, zambia. From Escambia county in florida to the beaches of denmark and germany, these devices have proven effective in preventing drowning incidents. The global adoption of these tubes and life rings across the world and here in Australia highlights the need for Queensland to implement similar measures. For unpatrolled environmental areas. This initiative is strongly supported by community organisations such as the Noosa Boardriders Club, the Noosa Malibu Club, the Noosa World Surfing Reserve. The Noosa surfing community alliance and the Noosa Boating and Fishing Alliance. Two near drowning incidents in the past 12 months at North Sunshine and at Alexandria Bay highlight the urgent need for their water safety measures in remote areas. Despite long-standing requests for rescue teams throughout our national park at boiling pot, teatree bay, graded bay and Alexandria Bay, a recent surfly state and Queensland safety board unfortunately did not prioritise these devices. They voted instead on relocating the defibrillators and installing emergency access smothering. However, voting to prioritise it, our community does. Cross held the student Council 2019. Remote rescue trial. Two clubs saw strong community support, no incidents of vandalism, and demonstrated life-saving potential. Since its implementation in 2019, there have been no bystanders of community support, no incidents of vandalism, and demonstrated life-saving been reported. Potential. Since its implementation in 2019, there have been no bystanders evaluated with key stakeholders, ensuring a safer environment for I'd and also like to add that the Noosa Boardriders Club have already donated funds to the World Surfing Reserve for such a trial, and also the maybe lively. This. The maybe that risked their life and possibly could have drowned at north Sunshine recently, there's also community funding, so I think there would be an abundance of community and local organisations that would be happy to support such a trial.

Amelia Lorentson87:28

No, only that is our opportunity to lead it in this space, and I'm hoping after the review that, you know, Surf Lifesaving Queensland will roll such trials through our national park. And I'd like to see this rolled over across a lot of our remote beaches. We just recently received an annual report from Surf Lifesaving Queensland. I actually have, you know, visitation numbers, and we have a lot of people frequenting our beaches, unpatrolled, unsupervised beaches, so I think there is an urgency to put these remote rescue tubes and life-saving equipment on these remote beaches.