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Volunteers

The Act recognises that volunteers doing work activities for other persons should have their health and safety protected because their well-being and work are as important as the well-being and work of employees.

"Volunteer"—

(a) means a person who—

(i) does not expect to be rewarded for work to be performed as a volunteer; and

(ii) receives no reward for work performed as a volunteer; and

(b) does not include a person who is in a place of work for the purpose of receiving on the job training or gaining work experience.]

How to keep our volunteers safe

The key to excellent health and safety management is good planning and good communication.

The Act sets out a number of steps that can be taken to help keep people safe.

In particular, these steps focus on:

	providing and maintaining a safe working environment, particularly by identifying hazards and managing them
	providing and maintaining facilities for the health and safety of persons at work;
	ensuring that plant, machinery and equipment in the place of work is designed, made, set up, and maintained to be safe for persons at work;
	ensuring that systems of work do not lead to persons being exposed to hazards in or around their place of work;
	providing people with good information about the hazards that they may come across in their workplace;
	providing people with good training and supervision; and
	developing procedures for dealing with emergencies that might arise while persons are at work.

Volunteers are covered by section 19 of the Act, which sets out the duty on employees (and in this case, volunteers) to take all practicable steps to ensure their own safety and the safety of others at work.

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