[tournament-org] BGA Public Liability Insurance

[secretary at britgo.org]

Tournament Directors:

 

The BGA has now put in place Events insurance to cover the tournaments run
during the year. This replaces the third-party liability cover we used to
have, where there was some uncertainty as to what was actually covered.

 

This Insurance policy does require us to consider Health and Safety aspects
of running Go Tournaments, and to ensure that these are covered the Board
has appointed Sam Bithell, Board Member, as its Health and Safety Officer.
Sam has produced, with Board Approval, a number of documents; the Prime
Policy document is at https://www.britgo.org/HealthandSafetyPolicy and other
documents are linked from that page. 

 

There will be a few simple requirements on Tournament Organisers who wish to
benefit from the protection provided by this insurance:

*	The Tournament Organiser must be a member of the BGA, 
*	the Tournament must be registered with the Board at least 2 weeks
before the event (ensuring it is on the event calendar
www.britgo.org/tournaments <http://www.britgo.org/tournaments>  is
sufficient)
*	the BGA policy mentioned above must be complied with 
*	a Risk Analysis needs to be undertaken - we have produced a standard
template which can be used, and Sam has volunteered to assist you in
completing it (in fact if you give him some contact details he will do the
majority of the work)

We stress that all this is optional: there is no requirement for Tournament
Organisers to comply with these simple requirements, although we strongly
recommend that they do so as we consider them to represent best practice.
Obviously not meeting these requirement means that our insurance will not
cover you.

 

Sam has already made contact with some individuals who have upcoming
tournaments to assist them in this process. If any of them want to share
with me their experiences of doing this I can publish them to this group.

 

Regards,

Colin Williams

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