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Health and Safety

Health and Safety . Louise Chaves Marjon Student Sport Development Officer. Session Brief. Duty of Care 1 st Aid Provision Accident Reporting. Duty of Care. How does it affect you ?. What is it ?. ‘A consideration of your acts and omissions as an individual and an ensurance that those

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Health and Safety

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  1. Health and Safety Louise Chaves Marjon Student Sport Development Officer

  2. Session Brief • Duty of Care • 1st Aid Provision • Accident Reporting

  3. Duty of Care How does it affect you ?

  4. What is it ? ‘A consideration of your acts and omissions as an individual and an ensurance that those acts and / or omissions do not give rise to a foreseeable risk of injury to any other person(s)’ Overriding point is that you have to ACT RESPONSIBLY

  5. Health and Safety Responsibilities • General Duty of care • Health & Safety at Work Act (statutory duties placed upon an Institution and it’s affiliated bodies which includes student clubs and societies) Your student leaders also have H&S responsibilities as they are also responsible for people in their care

  6. Why do we need Duty of Care ? INJURIES Deliberate Accidental Criminal Negligent Unforeseeable Offence

  7. Changes in Legislation / Thinking • 1994 Colette Fleetwood Incident • 1995 Lyme Bay Tragedy • BUCPEA 1996 ‘Safe Sport in Universities’ Guide • BUCPEA ‘Risk Assessment’ CD Rom • HSE Guidelines? • NGB / BUSA / UCS development • Liability and ‘Blame Culture’ • Student Welfare • Staff with H&S responsibilities • Formalisation of SASA

  8. What does it mean for you and your clubs ? • You have a general Duty of Care for your clubs • Club captains and leaders take on a Duty of Care to students in their group / club • All club members have a duty of care to their neighbours

  9. Discharging Responsibilities • Have an up to date safety policy and clearly defined safety procedures • Put in place clear line management structures • Insurance / NGB Affiliation • Participation statements • Risk Assessments • Safety training sessions for club committee’s

  10. Safety Policy • Identify partners • What systems are in place? • First Aid • Incident / Accident reporting • Risk Assessments / Management • Equipment • Safety Codes of Conduct etc.

  11. Safety Procedures(Best Practice) • Membership • Clubs/ Societies Safety Rules / Codes of conduct • Trip Registration forms • Incidents / Accidents and reporting of them • Activity Leadership & Registration • Risk Assessment’s • Code’s of Practice / Conduct • Transport guidelines • Kit / Equipment evaluation and renewal plans • First Aid

  12. Line Management Structure for Safety • Most Institutions or Unions will have a H&S Committee • It must be clear how to feed into this group and where responsibilities lie • Make sure you are represented on the committee

  13. Participation Statement • Membership forms • Enables you to hold current & update info on all members of each Club/ Society • Includes signed ‘participation’ statement • Students understand what they are entering into by signing up to a Club/ Society • Acts as a signed agreement between student and Club/ Society

  14. Safety Training Sessions • Compulsory • Duty of Care • Safety Procedures • What is expected of them • Their responsibilities • Handouts and work folders • Risk Assessment training

  15. 1st Aid Provision What should I do? Ideas for Best Practice

  16. Courses • Who should go on the courses? • Captains, Committee members, Trip leaders, event organisers, coaches, people who owe a duty of care! • What courses should they attend? • NGB, general or sport specific, one day, appointed persons,

  17. Equipment • First aid bag for every club • Who is responsible for replenishing / returning (deposit?) • Sport specific bag for certain clubs • Specialist equipment • Certain clubs may have specific safety equipment, e.g. hard hats, GK kit • These must be regularly checked and replaced

  18. Provision • Check external sites for 1st aid provision • What do they have, do you have access to it when there, what are their procedures if there is a 1st aid issue • Ideally a 1st Aider will be hired for all competitive fixtures but this is not always possible

  19. Managing 1st Aid • Data base of qualifications • Compulsory qualifications • All clubs need one, possibly more for high risk clubs • Put in place funding procedures • Write everything down

  20. Accident Reporting Why, What, Where, Who, When, How ?

  21. Why ? • Cover yourself • Blame culture, report everything including action taken. Keep this for at least three years • Good Practice • Prevention • Make sure it doesn’t happen again

  22. What ? • Accidents • Trips / Slips / Falls • Near Misses • Incidents

  23. Where ? • Union (you MUST know) • Facility (internal or external) • Institution • H&S Board • Council if appropriate

  24. Who ? • Person involved • Witnesses • 1st Aider • Trip leader • Captain

  25. When ? • Immediately • The accident needs to be fresh in your head when reporting it • If it is not possible to report it immediately then ASAP

  26. How ? • Verbally tell someone in charge of the facility • Fill in the appropriate form (accident report, near miss log) • Write to the person ion charge

  27. Help and Advice • BUSA / UCS / AMSU • Yours and other Unions / Institutes / Departments • NGB’s • HSE • Sport Contacts • SASA • Other Clubs and Societies

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