Cyclones may seem like a rare event to some people in Australia. However, according to the CSIRO, northern Australia is threatened by cyclones every year between November and April with typically a...

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

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 a...

Every year Guild Insurance receives hundreds of notifications of children being injured due to a variety of incidents in early learning services. We know staff do their best to minimise both the li...

Patient record keeping is unfortunately one of those dreaded risk management topics. Guild Insurance understands that it isn’t the most interesting of topics for natural therapists to spend t...

Storms 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 storm damage is often not as quick as...

Guild Insurance is aware that some educators in early learning centres choose to not wear shoes when inside the centre. While the reasons given for this are understood, there’s a concern that...

All employers, business owners, contractors and employees have an obligation to create and maintain a safe working environment.  And to do this we all need to think about what makes our workpl...

Damage to a building caused by water coming from within the building is possibly not a risk that’s top of mind for many businesses. However, at Guild Insurance we’ve seen these types of...

Sometimes the best treatment a dentist can provide is none at all.

This may sound like an unusual thing to suggest. After all, a dentist’s job is all about treating patients. However it...

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...

Osteopathy, as with all areas of healthcare, carries complexity and risk. Despite the best of intentions of osteopaths, sometimes the outcomes experienced by the patient isn’t as expected or ...

Guild Insurance has over 60 years’ experience managing complaints, and therefore claims, made by clients or customers of the professionals we insure. This has taught us a lot about how and wh...

Early learning centres have so many tasks and requirements to juggle. The children need to be educated while enjoying themselves and, importantly, staying safe. Centres need to provide all of this ...

Social media is a continually growing and changing online tool. How and when it should be used professionally isn’t straightforward, especially for health professionals.

It’s bee...

Many dentists would have experienced situations where a patient has attended for an appointment and informed their dentist how they want to be treated.  These patients present a number of pote...