Posted By Bob B
Hi all.

I was wondering if anyone in here has had any experience in managing H&S in a youth club.

Our club caters for 7-11 year olds and opens once a week for an hour and a half (2 hours if we have a party/disco.). We have nice facilities including a small hall, reception area with pool table, a separate kitchen and sweet shop and a well stocked art bay. On the summer nights we have a decent size play area outside where the kids play football etc. We also arrange cinema trips and an annual outing to a theme park. We currently have 7 committee members and around 60 kids on the books.

We are run by volunteers and have inherited a H&S file from the old committee and to be honest, it's a bit "War & Peace".

My mission is to simplify a lot of the procedures and make it more "usable" to the many volunteers we use.

I was kinda wondering if any of you guys had some experience in dealing with youth groups and perhaps 'mentor' me through this.

For myself I am a NEBOSH NGC working in a junior H&S role and understand the basics of what I need to achieve. But when dealing with children, I need to get this right and would like someone to 'check' my work and perhaps point out anything I may miss. At present I have re-written the H&S policy and carried out a couple of risk assessments.

Thanks for reading this

Bob