BHA Work Experience BHA Work Experience Toolkit | Page 7

THE IMPORTANCE
OF PLANNING
You’ll want to balance minimum disruption to your normal working
practices and the student getting as much out of it as possible. When
planning a placement you should consider:
• What type of student are they (see the flow chart on page 10)?
• What duties and responsibilities can they do?
• Who will be their mentor?
WHAT ADMIN IS
INVOLVED?
Probably less than you think! Most of the same rules apply as for any
young people. Try using the checklist below. Have you:
• done a risk assessment for young people taking account of
their age and inexperience?
• Understood and adopted the BHA Safeguarding Policy
• got an induction process?
• got a public and employer’s liability policy?
SAFEGUARDING
As the regulatory and governing body of the
sport, the BHA has a particular duty to protect
young people and adults at risk involved in racing
activities from all forms of abuse and harm, and
to ensure there are clear processes and channels
for them to report confidently any abusive or
discriminatory behaviour. However, this duty is
not confined to the BHA. It is shared by everyone
in racing.
The BHA also encourages all those involved
in racing to consider their own safeguarding
procedures and the risk of harm to young people
or adults at risk in the course of their racing
activities, particularly so where any individuals
have direct, unsupervised access to young people
or adults at risk. Where such risk is identified, the
BHA expects steps to be taken in order to reduce
that risk as far as possible.
The BHA Safeguarding Policy, Regulations and
guidance can be accessed here:
https://www.britishhorseracing.com/regulation/
safeguarding/
Then you have most of the things that you need.
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