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I haven't seen a safety check system anywhere around these parts, at least, not at any of the 15 or so clubs I'm able to visit in a season. But I like it.
As a alternative, the club I belong to has done everything possible to channel new competitors into the regular monthly steel match. Historically, it's been set up using the Steel Challenge model, with five or six shots per string (excepting a Vice Pres) done from a box. We've had a lot of success with this, and use it as a de facto training session. We added a rimfire division to lower the intimidation level, the expense, and broaden the available pool of newbies.
As a training program, it's produced some very good USPSA shooters.
It's not the same as an overt safety check program as RickB describes, but given a sometimes-limited volunteer base, I can imagine lots of places having some difficulty coming up with enough bodies to make it function.
I would like to have such a thing, though, and now, the wheels are turning...
Maybe this ought to be pulled off to a separate "Introducing New Shooters" thread of its own.
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