More articles

  • Client Records for fitness professionals

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

  • The risk of burns in early learning centres

    Every year Guild Insurance receives hundreds of notifications of children being injured during a variety of incidents in early learning centres.  We know centres do their best to minimise both...

  • Record Keeping for Natural Therapists

    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...

  • Mitigating Storm Damage

    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...

  • Why shoes should be worn in early learning centres

    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...

  • Maintaining personal safety and a safe osteopathy practice

    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...

  • Water damage - is your building protected?

    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...

  • Dental chair maintenance

    The Importance of Dental Chair Maintenance

    Maintaining dental equipment is crucial. Faulty chairs due to poor maintenance can lead to costly claims and disruptions. Follow manufacturer guidelines to prevent breakdowns, ensuring patient safety ...
  • Understanding the importance of dental referrals

    Understanding the importance of dental referrals

    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...

  • correct-manual-handling-workplace

    Correct Manual Handling in the Workplace

    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...

  • How healthy is your roof?

    All buildings, regardless of how old 

    osteopathy professional indemnity insurance

    Managing patient response to osteopathy treatment

    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 ...

  • professional indemnity insurance

    Can I say sorry?

    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...

  • Keeping play safe

    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 ...

  • Sharing and obtaining advice on social media

    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...

  • Patient driven dental treatment

    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...

  • Preventing the loss of cold stock in your pharmacy

    Loss of refrigerated stock can disrupt pharmacy operations and impact customers. Common causes include power failures, accidental damage, and equipment breakdowns. Pharmacies can reduce risks by imple...
  • Trips and falls – they don’t just happen to children

    When we talk about trips and falls being a common occurrence in early learning centres, many people first think about children tripping and falling. And yes, this unfortunately does happen. However...

  • Vets - common complaints

    Common complaints against veterinarians

    Every year at Guild Insurance, the veterinary liability claims reported to us are analysed to ensure we fully understand what clients are complaining about, what’s going wrong and what can be...

  • Chiro conversations

    Appropriate conversations in chiropractic

    You said what? Appropriate conversations in chiropractic

    Complaints of wrongdoing against chiropractors isn’t always about the treatment pro...

Why Guild Insurance?

For over 60 years, our customers have continued to be central to everything we do.