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#1 Posted : 10 May 2005 16:15:00(UTC)
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Posted By Dale B I have been approached by the organisers of a local event to be their named Health & Safety Person for a couple of concerts which are coming up in July. Apparantly it is a condition of the Performance Licence that a named person be appointed. My question is do I need to take out any sort of Insurance (Indemnity etc) to protect myself? I am a Safety Risk Adviser in Local Government educated to Dip 1 level. I would appreciate your views. Dale.
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#2 Posted : 10 May 2005 18:52:00(UTC)
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Posted By Charley Farley-Trelawney Dale You would need your own indemnity insurance, unless, the organisers have it in place to cover you, if the latter is the case then make sure you catch sight of it first. In addition a short-term contract between yourself and the organiser would be a splendid idea, and if twere me I may be asking for a deposit up front for me fees. Don't forget the ear defenders, I did a GG concert in the west country some years ago, I had my own insurance and worked on a short term contract with fees payable on completion, alas; the one thing I forgot was those ear defenders, grrrrrr, oh to be young again...... Good luck and enjoy Charles
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#3 Posted : 10 May 2005 19:49:00(UTC)
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Posted By Dale B Excellent points. Thanks Charles.
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#4 Posted : 11 May 2005 09:04:00(UTC)
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Posted By Ken Taylor You will need to be familiar with and competent in the guidance of HSG195, 154, etc and the H&S aspects of whatever else is taking place at the event. Professional indemnity insurance is essential unless you are a real employee of the organisers and not just contracted to them as a consultant - and even then it may well be advisable. presumably they will have shown their employee and public liability insurance certs in order to obtain the licence for the event? I suspect that you may also be required to produce the event safety policy, risk assessments, site safety plan, crowd management plan, emergency and first-aid plans, etc - so there could be quite a lot of responsibility if things do go wrong.
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