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<h1>Health & Safety on Team Building Events</h1>

The UK has some of the most stringent Health &amp; Safety
standards in the World. Most blue chip companies go even further
than the prescribed standards to ensure the wellbeing of their
employees. Yet the majority of companies employ team building
providers without checking on their own policies and procedures. In
effect they are handing over the wellbeing of their employees to
companies who do not have the same standards as they do and in some
cases companies who have no standards at all.
This is not to say that these companies are purposefully
dangerous but some team building providers are small or one man
bands and lack the resources to have set up and run an acceptable
Health &amp; Safety policy on an ongoing basis. In my experience
less than 10% of companies so much as enquire about Health &amp;
Safety and the vast majority do not even check whether event
providers carry adequate insurance. This is a shocking fact and I
believe that it is caused by that dangerous adversary of risk
management; assumption.
It is very difficult to assess the size and standard of
operation of a company from their website. Companies may look like
an International operator with hundreds of employees when in fact
they are a one man band trading from a spare bedroom. It is
essential that those booking events ask for reassurance in the form
of copies of insurance cover documents, a written Health &amp;
Safety policy and Risk Assessments of each of the activities being
undertaken. This is a simple process; documents need to be seen and
dates need to be checked to ensure that they are current.
Every activity provided by an event company should have a unique
Risk Assessment. In some cases there is clearly no risk at all, but
still the procedure should be undertaken. In such cases the Risk
Assessment will read &#8216;this activity has been assessed and
classified as low risk&#8217; with the name of whoever undertook
the Risk Assessment. Companies should have a designated Health
&amp; Safety Officer who has undergone training and is sufficiently
experienced to know how to recognize potential risks.
The key document to consider in this process is the Risk
Assessment. This supports the investigation of the activity by the
provider. A Risk Assessment ensures that potential dangers have
been considered and steps taken to minimize the risk. Activities
are then classified as low, medium and high risk. You may decide to
avoid high risk activities on your event. Risk Assessments are
living documents, in that an activity provider should update it
along with lessons learned as they practice.
If you are choosing medium or high risk activities it would be
prudent to ask how many times the activity company has provided
these activities before. You may wish to avoid undertaking a high
risk activity run by a company who was providing it for the first
time.
The corporate event industry is divided into companies operating
on static sites and companies with a mobile operation who travel to
venues. In most cases the event will be held in a field, often
close to the hotel at which a client is staying. It is essential
that any company providing such events visits the site before hand
to assess the land. It is not enough to use a map as there can be
trees in dangerous locations, particularly for motorized vehicles
such as quad bikes or dune buggies, or holes in the land which make
it dangerous for activities. In some cases land can be contaminated
with dangerous scrap metal or broken glass.
If an event is water based the water should have recently been
tested. In water parks or regularly used locations this is likely
to be a regular undertaking, but in some cases a pond or waterhole
will be used for bridge building or raft racing. This should be
tested for bacteria or other dangerous deposits. It&#8217;s a risk
to simply use an area of water without considering this.
There are many other areas that a sound Health &amp; Safety
procedure will cover. It takes time and effort to set one up and it
needs to be maintained and updated on an ongoing basis. All event
management companies should have one in place and they will only
improve if more clients demand to see them.

<div>Author Info 
Progressive Resources organises 
<a href="http://www.teambuilding.co.uk" target="_blank">team
building events</a> for corporate clients around the UK. Visit
their website 
<a target="_new" href="http://www.teambuilding.co.uk">http://www.teambuilding.co.uk</a>
for further information on their full range of events.
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