Health and Safety and Insurance
This Core Theme of the Good Practice Bank contains a number of resources and links to help you consider practical health and safety and insurance issues when involving volunteers. It is complemented by a Core Theme looking at protection and safeguarding measures for work with vulnerable clients or volunteers and a Specialist Theme looking at wider risk management issues.
Articles
Volunteering England members Information Sheets Read articles about health and safety and insurance from back issues of our monthly members' magazine |
Samples, examples and templates, templates
Generic sample documentsThe Health and Safety Executive has developed some resources to demonstrate how to carry out a risk assessment in a range of everyday working situations. Below, we have highlighted the ones which are most relevant to volunteer managers:
Templates for you to adapt
Real life examples
Please note that Volunteering England has not produced the 'real life example' documents listed directly above and is therefore unable to take responsibility for the content. Volunteering England and the organisations that contribute example documents to the Good Practice Bank can accept no responsibility for how they are used. They are presented as examples of good practice, but it is every volunteer-involving organisation's responsibility to ensure that their volunteers are safe, and that policies and procedures meet current legal requirements. For further information about the resources listed in the Good Practice Bank, please visit our 'top tips' page.
Links
General websites on health and safety and insurance
Website resources on lone working and personal safety
Websites on driving
Publications
Free publications
Priced publications
