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Risk Management

Are you ready? Voluntary work and workplace health & safety

A brief handbook produced by the New Zealand government to highlight health & safety issues for volunteers (pdf)

Australian Observations: An interview with Linda Graff

This OzVPM Hot Topic from November 2004 asks Canadian volunteerism leader and risk management expert Linda Graff her thoughts on volunteerism in Australia

Intuition or Indigestion?

A short published article by OzVPM Director Andy Fryar on the topic of using 'gut instinct' as a valuable tool in the interview and recruitment process

Liability of Volunteers & Volunteering Orgs in Australia
This is a copy of a presentation made at the 2002 Volunteering Victoria Conference on Volunteering by Professor Greg Reinhardt. The paper is comprehensive and looks at a whole range of risk management issues including insurance.

Risk Management Fact Sheet

Fact sheet from the Office of Volunteers in South Australia

Running the Risk?

Runing the Risk is a free and useful tool for all volunteer organisations produced by Volunteering Australia in 2003

Screening prospective volunteers Help Sheet
This help sheet has been prepared by and comes courtesy of the ourcommunity.com team

Volunteer Protection Provisions
Power point notes of Myles McGregor Lowndes presentation made to the Volunteering Australia National Conference in 2004

Volunteers in the 2000's - volunteer liability in the emergency services

This paper, written by Catherine Dunlop, offers a great outline of the potential risks and protections that exist for volunteers working in the Australian Emergency services

 

Energize Links to International Resources on Risk and Liability
Additional links and information on this topic courtesy of our friends at Energize.

 
Resources available on this topic in the OzVPM Bookstore include;
 

'Better Safe... Risk Management in volunteer programs and community service

by Linda Graff

 

'Beyond Police Checks: The definitive volunteer and employee screening guidebook

by Linda Graff

   

It's never over: Ongoing screening of paid staff and volunteers (2000)

e-volunteerism article by Canadian Linda Graff

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