Sam Houston Area Council
Health & Safety Committee

Scouting exists to provide a program for character development, citizenship training, and personal fitness. The need to achieve personal fitness and to avoid sickness and accidents is so basic to successful living that it touches every phase of Scouting. Positive attitudes that help develop good health and safety practices must be taught while knowledge and skills are being acquired.

The council Health and Safety Committee’s role is to ensure that safety and health awareness is included in all actions assumed by the council and districts. The function of a health and safety committee is to keep key council and district personnel informed and alert to current policies and guidelines designed to promote health and prevent illness, accidents and fatalities, and to work through them to keep unit leaders and district personnel safety and fitness conscious.

The council Health and Safety Committee works closely with the council’s Risk Management Committee.

Unit Health & Safety Job Description
Health & Safety Chairman Job Description 
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