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Social media is an ever increasing form of communication for many people in both their personal and professional lives.  It presents people with many benefits in allowing them to communicate a variety of messages to many people with great speed and efficiency.  However, those benefits need to be balanced with the many risks social media presents. Social media is a very broad term which includes any websites and applications which allow users to interact with ...

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  • Importance of Informed Consent

    All health practitioners would be well aware of their requirements to obtain informed consent from their patients before assessment or treatment takes place.  However, Guild Insurance’s vast experience in managing claims made against health practitioners has highlighted that many practitioners don’t meet all their informed consent requirements. What is informed consent? There is an explanation about informed consent in the Code of Conduct for each of the professions regulated by AHPRA.  In this document, informed ...
  • Are you prepared for a power outage?

    Are you prepared for a power outage? Power outages are unfortunately becoming a somewhat common occurrence in parts of Australia. The threat of heatwaves, and therefore higher than usual demands on power, means that power outages are a real threat to many businesses over summer. Insurance protection during a power outage It’s important that all businesses understand their insurance cover in case of events which impact the running of the business, such as a power ...

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  • Importance of Informed Consent

    All health practitioners would be well aware of their requirements to obtain informed consent from their patients before assessment or treatment takes place.  However, Guild Insurance’s vast experience in managing claims made against health practitioners has highlighted that many practitioners don’t meet all their informed consent requirements. What is informed consent? There is an explanation about informed consent in the Code of Conduct for each of the professions regulated by AHPRA.  In this document, informed ...
  • Why every business needs an asset register

    When considering an insurance policy, it’s easy for many of us to think “it’ll never happen to me”.  However, the vast experience of Guild Insurance tells us ‘it’, being events that require insurance claims, unfortunately can happen to people like you.  Guild Insurance is dedicated to providing risk management information to those insured with us to help reduce the likelihood of events occurring which will have a detrimental impact on their business and lead to ...

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    Importance of Informed Consent

    Guild Insurance’s vast experience in managing claims made against health practitioners has highlighted that many practitioners don’t meet all their informed consent requirements.
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    Are you prepared for a power outage?

    Power outages are unfortunately becoming a somewhat common occurrence in parts of Australia. The threat of heatwaves, and therefore higher than usual demands on power, means that power outages are a r...
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    Maintaining your shade sails and softfall

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  • Mitigating bushfire risks

    Bushfires are an unfortunate part of life for many people and businesses in Australia and the devastation they cause can be...

  • Mitigating Flood Damage Risks

    Floods are an unfortunate part of life for many people and businesses in Australia and the devastation they cause can be catastrophic. Sadly, the recovery from flood damage is often not as quick as...

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    Manual handling means using force or physical exertion to move something, by means such as pushing, pulling, lifting, or carrying. Manual handling takes place continually in an ear...

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