About the event: https://york365.com/event/over-the-edge-york-2025/
REGISTRATION AREA VOLUNTEERS (2+ PEOPLE)
Duties:
• Use the master schedule to determine which participants will be arriving for which registration time. Ensure they are at the correct registration time and check them off as they register
• Check to see if they have signed the electronic waiver in advance of arrival. (If completed, the participants’ name will be highlighted on the event schedule)
• If name is not highlighted on schedule, have them complete a paper participant waiver and bring it with them to staging
• Provide them with a wrist band (if this is the method for waiver identification)
• Provide each participant with a name tag that is clearly visible. Place name tag on their upper arm. This way the harness will not cover the tag.
• Collect all droppable items from participants including phones, keys, coins, etc.
• Send participants to Staging as they arrive.
• People will come late (and early) but do your best to keep them in their designated groups.
• The goal is to move participants through the process efficiently and quickly if participants come too early, i.e. more than 45 minutes, ask them to return at their designated registration time
STAGING AREA VOLUNTEER (1 EVENT VOLUNTEER)
Duties:
• Ask each participant to double-check their pockets and provide a safe place for these valuables to be stored until after the event.
• Manage GoPro use & charging
• Duties as assigned on-site by Over The Edge Staging Manager
GUIDES (2-5 PEOPLE)
Duties:
• Assigned to lead participant groups through different stages of the event
• Registration to staging; brings groups of 2-6 to staging and returns to registration to wait for next group.
• Staging to Training (roof); brings groups of 2-6 to the roof, returns to staging to wait for next group
• All media personnel must always have a designated non-profit volunteer with them.
LANDING ZONE (2 PEOPLE)
Duties:
• Meet rappelers at ground exclusion zone to guide them back to Staging to remove gear;
• OR meet rappelers at ground exclusion zone to take off their gear and run it back to the staging room.
ROOF TOP SECURITY (1 PERSON)
Duties:
• High level volunteer to be stationed at the last access point to the roof to ensure that only waiver volunteers and participants can access the roof.
• It is very important for this person be assertive and confident in stopping anyone trying to gain access to the roof that should not be there.
ROOF TOP RADIO PERSON (1 PERSON)
Duties:
• Volunteer stationed on the roof to let announcer know who is rappelling, when they go over and what rope they are on
• Organize participants away from the edge and ensure there is an order to who is next in line
• Communicate with the Announcer/MC who is going over and who is next
• OTE Techs will not be able to radio down to the announcer
