Health and Safety Information
The Rugby Spring Fair Health and Safety Policy
All parties have a duty to be ever mindful of risks and issues, which may arise as a result of their activities.
These centre round assessing and addressing the risks to health and safety of all persons involved in the event.
We have therefore drawn up a health and safety policy specifically for the Rugby Spring Fair to enable us to work in environment which is mindful of the issues which could arise and to ensure we have used our best endeavours to avoid and/or prevent any adverse effect on the health and safety of our visitors, stallholders and organisers.
Rotary Spring Fair Health and Safety policy statement
We will endeavour to:
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Provide adequate control of the risks to health and safety arising from our activities at the Spring Fair.
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Ensure that plant and equipment utilised at the event is appropriately erected, maintained and dismantled.
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Ensure safe stowage and handling of substances and consumables used at or provided to all attendees at the Fair.
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Provide information, instruction and supervision as deemed necessary of all helpers at the Fair, thereby, ensuring all helpers have the right guidance and support to undertake their allocated tasks.
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Encourage, help and guide all stallholders and helpers to be health and safety conscious, looking out to identify and rectify hazards in a positive way where necessary.
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Maintain a general health and safety working environment that is reviewed and iterated as and when necessary.
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To make health and safety a positive virtue not a negative detraction.
Health and Safety Risk Assessments
The Clubs cannot accept liability for any loss, damage or injury suffered by any attendees at the Spring Fair.
In order to minimise the risk of harm to all attendees we require that all stall holders and display organisers undertake a risk assessment in order to find, reduce and control the risk to all those taking part and members of the public who may attend.
Please set aside a few minutes of your time to think carefully about what hazards might arise in your / your organisation’s participation in the Spring Fair and which might cause harm to anyone attending the fair.
Your organisation may already have a standard process and form for undertaking a risk assessment but if not a simple form, is available here.
Please number each completed form (if more than one). Also please date and sign each form, and print your name and that of your organisation where indicated by the dotted lines at the foot of each page.
If you have any doubt as to how to complete the form/s then please telephone for advice from John Vickers on 01788 815926.
The completed forms should be retained safely and be available, if requested, for inspection at the Fair.
You can find helpful guidance on how undertake a risk assessment on the Health & Safety Executive website. This tends to be for larger events. Alternatively, advice for Rugby residents is available from the Rugby Borough Council Public Health and Licensing Team on 01788 533882 or by emailing HS@rugby.gov.uk or call John Vickers on 01788 815926.