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Attitudes
To Safety ...
More
than 50,000 ARM-Q profiles have been completed in Australia since
1992, covering most industries. Such
profiling can be used in selecting new personnel, but it is also used
in the professional pathway as an aid in training existing employees.
In other words, assessing existing employees is a commitment to
train any who don’t meet the company or insurance standard required.
Where
does this relate to risk management for sport and recreation
organisations, you may ask? I see a couple of interesting analogies.
Firstly, the success or otherwise of an organisation’s safety
and quality systems depends on attitudes and commitment.
The most detailed, thorough and well intentioned risk
management policy in the world will have limited beneficial outcome
unless it is implemented and embraced at the coal-face, or perhaps
better described in sport as the grass-roots, where many of the
physical and legal risks abound.
Secondly,
the article highlighted how the insurance industry was actively
involved in the profiling described above, with the results playing a
role in the insurer determining whether or not to take the client on,
and under what circumstances. Whilst
I am not suggesting that safety awareness profiling of individuals
will be a pre-requisite to providing insurance for sport and
recreation organisations, we are already well aware that our sport and
recreation industry is not seen as an attractive source of business
for insurers. It is
therefore reasonable to expect that it will be necessary to demonstrate (e.g.
via external audit) to a potential insurer that your sporting
organisation does embrace risk management, that it does operate with
appropriate programs in place throughout all levels of the sport and
it does support those programs with training of personnel aimed at
improving safety awareness.
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Written
by Rod Hughes, CEO, IEA Brokers Pty Ltd, June 2002
Reference;
Article
"Accidents Waiting To Happen" appearing in Insurance &
Risk Professional, June - July 2002 edition, official publication of
the National Insurance Brokers Association of Australia.
The
editor of the IEA Sport Monthly Update is joint Chief Executive
Officer, Rod Hughes.
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