Health and safety is an enormous, but often overlooked, issue for Third Sector organisations. For some, the prevailing blief is 'It will never happen to us'. Unfortunatley, if it does its serious, it can destroy organisations and leave trustees and volunteer directors liable for the consequences.

In this report, Empower examines the size of the problem. The potential impact of both large and small health and safety issues and the steps trustees and directors can take, to protect themselves and their workforce...

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Your legal responsibility: As an employer you have a legal responsibility to protect the health and safety of your staff and other people, such as customers and members of the public, who may be affected by their work.

This is problematic where trustees or directors are volunteers and do not spend substantial amounts of time at the place of work. Here it is even more critical that trustees are able to communicate their commitment to Health and Safety in the workplace to all staff and volunteers and create a method of monitoring the health and safety in their absence.

Responsibilities of trustees and directors under the law are...

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In 2010/ 2011 1.2 million working people were recorded as suffering from a work-related illness.

172 workers were killed at work.

There were 200,000 reportable illnesses resulting in 3 days absence or more.

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