For no more than the cost of an ice cream that you might buy at the end of a walk you can obtain personal accident cover for your club bushwalking and related activities. The policy covers you from the time you leave home until you arrive back home.

If you do have an accident when bushwalking the policy won’t make you so rich that you can give up working and go bushwalking for the rest of your life (after recovering from your accident). It will help ease the pain on the hip pocket nerve for that things that Medicare or your private health insurance doesn’t cover.

The cover operates when you are on a club sanctioned activity. The cover also travels with you, so that if you walk with several clubs, you need only have personal accident insurance cover through one club. You are covered when you walk with any other club that is affiliated with Confederation.

As you might expect, there are some terms and conditions that apply. The critical one is that if you do have an accident, the insurance broker must be notified within 30 days of the accident.

If you want some more details, please have a chat with the appropriate member of your club’s committee.