Timekeeper • There is no regional timekeeper qualification. • The referee for each meet, along with the appointed Chief Timekeeper, must ensure that all timekeepers, regardless of experience, are adequately briefed to perform the task of timekeeping. • Briefing for each meet depends on the equipment being used (e.g. manual stopwatches only, semiautomatic equipment, with stopwatch back-up and automatic equipments with semi-automatic and stopwatch backups). • SW will provide laminated briefing sheets for use at all SW meets. The referee/CTK to ensure that these sheets are provided to all officials prior to the commencement of the meet and that novice officials are given additional, verbal guidance. • The CTK is to ensure that inexperienced officials are ‘buddied’ with more experienced officials. • The briefing sheet will include: - Key content from the SNZ Technical Officials Guide, SNZ Code of Conduct and will also covers poolside etiquette (e.g. cell phone policy, support for swimmers, etc) • The CTK should circulate around all timekeepers over the course of the meet to check that times recorded by each timekeeper are within an acceptable tolerance (i.e. typically within 3/10th of a second).