thewitch Wrote:Your warrant card is the card in your armband, and it has on it the terms and duties of a marshal, space to record your sessions, your details etd. I find the actual armband a nuisance as it slips off my arm, but I have been told that cutting the armband and sewing the holder to your tabard is not allowed... why don't we get credit card sized credentials like the ACU ones? Much handier, and maybe in the long term chipped.
I advocated this for licences, so they could be chipped and then record your races for, say, 5 years, removing the need for the silly 6 qualifying races rule... all places, and also misdemeanors would be recorded at every race (internationally?)
In the case of marshals you could build up a credit... like your Tesco card (not mine, I hate 'em, but that's another story!).
Come on... it's the 21st century now...

Totally unrelated to your post, but it occurs to me in an oblique way.
Do you remember when the "Herald of Free Enterprise" ro-ro ferry capsized in Zeebrugge harbour? Horrendous happening identified eventually as being a result of the bow doors not being closed appropriately. I was on the "Spirit of Free Enterprise", its sister ship a short while later. We sailed at 4am ex-Dover. The Ship's captain was at pains to announce that the bow doors had been secured. We were all on deck to give ourselves the best chance if it went over.

In that theatre of doubt, the fact that the major fear had been addressed was very re-assuring and it felt like the safest time to travel.

There's got to be an analogy to this present situation. Marshals need clear guidance that their actions will not be a ticket to either the courts or Jurby House. Marshals need to feel that they are safe to Marshal.

Another 2p