Volunteering: How to manage the risks

Guidance for employers

• Overview

  Manage the health and safety of volunteers and those who work with them

• Health and safety law: Your duties to protect volunteers

  When health and safety law applies to volunteers

• Include volunteers in your risk assessment

  How to assess risks to volunteers and examples to help you take the right actions

• When to report incidents involving volunteers

  Advice to help you decide whether incidents involving volunteers are reportable

• Other sources of advice

  Useful links and resources

Guidance for volunteers

• Your health and safety as a volunteer

  Your responsibilities and how your employer should protect you

Specific volunteering activities