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Help - my brain has stopped working after a truly hideous week! Our venue has an external company/charity coming to our site to host their own residential course for children (specialist/academic) I'm trying to work out our liability for this, past basic occupiers liability. They will have their own staff to look after the children (CRB checked) and will be using our premises. I will carry out a risk assessment on our behalf to assess the risk to them on our site.....do I need to insist on seeing their risk assessments? My thought is yes, as whatever they are doing ought to include a consideration of us and our staff as providers. Am I going bonkers though? So far I want to ask for insurance details, risk assessment(s) and H&S policy and would feel better simply from a 'protecting our reputation point of view' in any case. Then provider is being less than helpful though and hence this email! TIA
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I think it might be a bit OTT to ask them for RAs, being that the visit is for academic purposes. I think it would be reasonable to request information for what activities are taking place, details of supervision, emergency arrangements, etc. If, by some chance there is something which may be out of the unusual, then it may be appropriate to pursue this further, which could be require an RA. That's my take on it, others may have a different view.
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I agree with Ray.
Also consider
1. Are the facilities / premises suitable for the clients use
2. What are the risks created by your operations that can affect the client
3. What are the risks from the clients operations on yours
Then I would study the contract details, do the risk assessment and then sit down with the client to discuss the HS issues between you.
Together you should mutually agree the sensible control measures and record them.
Steve
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talk to your insurers as they will have an idea as to what they want
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HI,
Back to basics here I think. They're using your premises so induct the supervisors of the children into your risk assessment outlining emergency & first aid arrangements, welfare facilities, limitations of use of the building etc. And get them to sign it.
Job done!!!
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It is important to check what activities are going to be undertaken, as you may need to isolate one or more smoke detectors.
We had a full evacuation during an open day event last year because we didn't know that a stage event involved use of a smoke generator...
Best wishes.
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Thank you so much...my addled brain is much relieved!
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