VTT POLICY
Volunteer Teacher Thailand Health and Safety Policy statement:
Volunteer Teacher Thailand is strongly committed to encouraging volunteers to take part, but the health and safety of each individual is always our paramount concern.
To support our Health and Safety policy statement we are committed to the following duties:
Undertake regular recorded risk assessment of the premises and all activities undertaken
Create a safe environment by putting health and safety measures in placed as identified by the assessment
Ensure that all volunteers are aware of, understand and follow the VTT’s health and safety policy
Ensure that normal operating procedures and emergency operatinf procedures are in place and known by all volunteers
Provide access to adequate first aid facilities, telephone and qualified first aider at all times
Report any injuries of accidents sustained during any volunteer’s duties
Ensure that the implementation of the policy is reviewed regularly and monitored for effectiveness
As a volunteer you have a duty to:
Take reasonable care for your own health and safety and that of others who may be affected by what you do or not do
Cooperate with the VTT on health and safety issues
Correctly use all equipment provided by VTT
Not interfere with or misuse anything provided for your health, safety or welfare.
Medical Insurance
The volunteer should possess a certificate of health insurance.
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Student protection
Volunteer Teacher Thailand is fully committed to the protection of its students and children everywhere. The Director, Ken Hyde, holds UK police clearance documents for working with children.
Long-term volunteers will be asked to provide similar clearances but this is not practicable for large numbers of short-term volunteers who are mostly aged between 18 and 26 years.
Our strict policy is to allow only clearance document holders to work alone with children and those without clearance documentation to work in groups or under the direct supervision of the Director or the Teaching Co-ordinator.
These arrangements are a protection and precaution but no incident of child abuse has ever been reported or suspected in the hundreds of thousands of teaching hours given by Tsunami Volunteer Centre and Voluntary Teacher Thailand volunteers. Our care in this is exercised with the same low-visibility policy that we adopt for all other safety and welfare matters affecting volunteers – it does not detract from the Volunteer Experience and the enjoyment of good people helping those less fortunate.
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Equal Opportunites
Principles:
VTT wholeheartedly supports the principle of equal opportunities in volunteering. We aim to encourage, value and manage diversity and we recognise that talent and potential are distributed across the world. That diversity adds value to VTT.
VTT recognises that many people in our societies experience discrimination. Discrimination is acting unfairly against a group or individual through for example exclusion, verbal comment, denigration, harassment, victimisation, a failure to appreciate needs or the assumption or such needs without consultation.
All forms of discrimination are unacceptable regardless of whether there was any intention to discriminate or not. Volunteers have a duty to cooperate with VTT to ensure that this policy is effective in ensuring equal opportunities and in preventing discrimination. Volunteers should draw the attention of their Volunteer Support Manager to suspected discriminatory acts or practices or cases of bullying or harassment.
Statement of intent
VTT aims to create a culture that respects and values each others’ differences, that promotes dignity, equality and diversity and that encourages individuals to develop and maximise their true potential.
We aim to remove any barriers, bias or discrimination that prevent individuals or groups from realising their potential and contributing fully to VTT’s performance and to develop an organisational culture that positively values diversity.
We are committed wherever practicable, to achieving and maintaining a volunteer force that broadly reflects the international community and the community in which we operate.
Every possible step will be taken to ensure that individuals are treated fairly in all aspects of their volunteer work at VTT.
Our aim is that the workforce will be truly representative of all sections of society. Intimidation, harassment and bullying will not be tolerated.
VTT will challenge discrimination in its own policies. It aims to provide equality and fairness for all volunteers, irrespective of gender, marital status, race, ethnic origin, colour, nationality, national origin, religion or belief, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or age.
Exception to this policy:
As we are teaching English language skills, the volunteers involved in teaching must be native English speakers or be fluent in English.
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Mission
To empower children and adults, through Thai-led demand, in the tsunami-affected areas of the Andaman Coast by providing, free of charge, teaching of English; to be aware of Thai culture; to work closely with Thai people, their schools and their communities; to expand the project to reach all those who want this provision; to maintain the highest quality professionally-led teaching and learning experiences; to support the volunteers in order to achieve the mission; and to promote the learning and personal growth of volunteers from all over the world.
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