VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT
Insurance Protection for Volunteers Issues Paper
All organisations have a legal obligation to protect their boards, committees and personnel, both paid and volunteer from risk while they are working, in other words a duty of care.
Additionally, individuals in their roles as volunteers have a duty of care to others with whom they come into contact (colleagues, clients etc) through their formal volunteering roles.
Common law duty of care obliges an organisation and an individual to avoid carelessly causing personal injury or damage to property. Adequate insurance cover is an integral part of this duty of care and as such the following points need to be considered when an organisation is looking for protection.
Volunteering Australia have produced an Issues Paper on these issues.
