If your shoot has five or more employees at any one time it is a legal requirement to have a written Health and Safety Policy. You may be liable to criminal prosecution, leading to a significant fine and/or imprisonment if you do not have one.
Even if the shoot does not have employees, it still makes sense to document your Health and Safety policy:
Greater safety consciousness will reduce accidents and no one wants their day spoilt by an avoidable accident.
| Document title | Document date |
|---|---|
| BASC Health and Safety Guidance | |
| Health and Safety Policy Statement | |
| Risk Assessment Form (Word) | |
| Risk assessment form |
Assistance with Field Sports Health & Safety, Risk Assessment.
Visits & Discussion with Your Team, please contact;
Peter Marshall
Tel: 01244 573063
email
Date in force: January 16 2009
What it will do
The Act amends s.33 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, to raise the maximum penalty the lower courts can dish out from £5,000 to £20,000. It will also allow some offences, previously limited to the lower courts, to be tried in higher ones, which have the power to pass stiffer - often unlimited - penalties. Therefore, it will make a custodial sentence an option for a wider range of health and safety offences. The Act doesn't impose any additional legal duties.
A Nottinghamshire shooting school has teamed up with BASC’s specialist insurance advisers to offer first aid and risk assessment training for shoots.
Mellerups and Oxton Shooting School have launched ‘Oxton Pulse’, a training wing of the shooting school, which will offer a one day course for £95 plus VAT covering all aspects of first aid and risk assessment; they will even help to type up and format your risk assessment.
Based just outside of Nottingham the shooting school is very easy to find with good access form the A1 and M1.
For full details and to book your place on the next course visit their web site www.oxtonpulse.co.uk or call Reg Bates on 01623 882523.
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