Insurance questions & answers
details given to Tennyson:
- turn over: £4000
- activities: members making/working on projects using soldering irons, hand tools, power tools and computer controlled equipment like laser cutters, in a group context with training provided. We meet weekly.
- age group of members:16-65. (they said having members under 18 will mean we need some extra paperwork)
- assets requiring cover: current assets not worth anything, ultimately may need £10k contents.
- building cover: not required
- existing insurance: nothing/covered by members own insurance.
- cover required: public liability, possibly contents, asked them to suggest what types of insurance we might need.
Follow up for further detail, answers provided in bold
- Number of members
- 20
- Number of active members at any meeting
- 10-15
- Times of meeting
- 7-10pm, once a week
- Risk control
- Lock outs on power and cabinet of laser cutter
- Training documentation
- Risk assessments
- Procedures borrowed from existing hackspaces
- What safety equipment is in the building
- Fire alarm
- Fire extinguishers
- First aid kit
- Do you have a trained first aider
- I said we have one trained first aider is this true?
- PAT testing?
- Everything electrical is PAT test by a 3rd party
- This is true for most of my electrical items as I've got them tested at work or at Makerfaires. Do we have a contact who could test the laser cutter?
- Everything electrical is PAT test by a 3rd party
- Where is the building
- I gave them the name and pointed him to our website for directions/address
- Directors/committee
- We have a small committee
- Types of tools
- Soldering Iron
- Cordless drill
- Laser cutter
- No woodworking tools
- 3D printers not mentioned
- Events we go to
- ~5 members attend
- ~4 makerfaires per year
- we don't run our own events
- We don't run workshops at events
They had looked at our website and had seen bighak, though didn't ask for any further information about it.