Snowball Plantation have an established health and safety policy. There is also a child protection policy, with agreed procedures, in which all incidents of suspected child abuse will be reported to the local Police and Social Services Department for investigation.

A Health and Safety Sub-committee meet regularly to discuss health and safety issues. Recognition: Nothing can be absolutely free from risk; therefore nothing can be absolutely safe. Health and Safety legislation requires that all Risks should be reduced to a level as low as reasonably practicable. Risk assessment techniques used to achieve this have involved:

• Identifying hazards resulting from the organisations activities affecting anyone. including members and the general public;
• Assessing the risks of hazards occurring;
• Evaluating the likely severity of the outcome;
• Eliminating hazards where ever possible, or else reducing them to lowest level of risk that is reasonably practicable.