Blue cards for sport and active recreation

Employees and volunteers

You will need a blue card if your work relates to sport or active recreation and includes providing services to children or conducting activities with children, including if you are:

• an employee or volunteer of a business that offers training for children, for example a person who works or volunteers with children at a martial arts business
• under 18 and paid for your work
• a student enrolled in a tertiary course—including certificate, TAFE and university courses—who needs to do a practical placement
• a person employed to provide personal training to children.

Under this category—unless you are a restricted person—you don't need a blue card if you are a:

• parent volunteering at the same place where your child participates in the activities
• person who works at an amusement park, for example a person who dresses as a character in a theme park
• person providing these activities as part of a church, club or association.

Business owners and operators

You will need a blue card if the usual activities of your business include running sport or active recreation activities for children.

Examples

A blue card is needed if you own or operate a business that provides:

• recreational camps
• themed birthday parties, for example hosts or operators of paintball, rock climbing, soccer or skating
• jumping castles or other rides, for example supervisors or attendants who assist children
• casual indoor netball, squash or cricket centres
• children’s discos
• indoor play centres, for example trampoline or laser tag
• young children motor skills groups
• re-enactment groups, for example medieval sword fighting practice
• children’s fitness programs
• independent industry providers, for example karate, martial arts or horse riding.

Under this category you don't need a blue card if the activities are conducted by a church, club or association, or if the business is an amusement park.