Health & Safety

By | March 27, 2018

Health & Safety at Aughton & Ormskirk U3A

The Management Committee requested that a Working Party be established to review the venues used by our U3A groups to ensure, as far as reasonably possible, the safety of U3A members. The Working Party, consisting of 5 experienced and committed U3A members, met to review existing policies and the consolidated findings formed a report to the Management Committee which was presented at their January 2018 meeting.  This report was accepted and adopted.

The main recommendations were:

  • premises should be inspected before a venue is selected for an activity to confirm safety and suitability. All premises in use (with certain exceptions) should be inspected regularly and a Premises Checklist has been devised to facilitate this. The Working Party is in the process of reviewing premises and the records will be made available to the appropriate Group Leaders;
  • the Health and Safety Policy that has been prepared should be made available to all members;
  • the amendments to the Group Leaders Handbook that have been suggested should be implemented.

As you will appreciate this work is on-going and there is still more work to do.

Work is currently underway to review the activities undertaken by our members.

In the meantime our thanks go to the members of the Working Party for their work.

Enquiries

For any enquiries about Health and Safety as it relates to Aughton & Ormskirk U3A, please email healthsafety@aughton-ormskirk-u3a.co.uk

Related Documents

Report to the Management Committee January 2018

See the Forms webpage for a link to the Accident / Serious Incident Report Form.

Last Updated on October 25, 2019