Quote Originally Posted by shaded View Post
good post however i disagree re people not caring to help clean it up,i know for a fact that in the recent past that a family member through his work offered volunteers to help spruce the old lady up ,however wasnt taken up,pretty sure the old h@s excuse got trotted out either that or no answer,nb have to find out which it was,but either way a problem that neednt have been,and yes i doubt he wid bother his erse to offer help again,so so much wrong with how our/the club is run
Hi Shaded, I'm interested in the H&S excuse for not accepting volunteers. As far as I can see there is almost a national campaign being run to get people with talents to volunteer to help all sorts of organisations in any way they can. I've been involved with some events that needed to be organised and the first rule is to prepare a risk assessment, and if you are using other businesses to help deliver the event you need to make sure that you have copies of their risk assessment. Even the stadium manager at a wee ground will have risk assessments for everything that has to be done at the ground he manages, so it would seem to me that our stadium manager will have all the paperwork in place for all the jobs that need to be carried out at Dens. Giving the volunteers these safe way of working assessments will be a straightforward task and would ensure that the club had carried out its responsibility to whoever was carrying out the tasks. Obviously operating machinery might be beyond the abilities of a volunteer but these pieces of equipment will have their own risk assessments and be subject to additional training before anyone should attempt to operate them.

there is one problem with using volunteers. It can happen when the task to be carried out might be something that one of the club's commercial sponsors might undertake as part of their normal business. I would hope that a Dee supporting business might get a fair opportunity to quote for any work that is going to be undertaken.