Summary of Good Practice Recommendations

Organisations have a responsibility to:

• understand legal responsibilities and mitigate risk

• meet legal obligations related to insurance, in particular for workers compensation and public liability

• ensure insurance clauses for any template contracts are adapted to the reasonable requirements of the specific project

• negotiate insurance arrangements and consider assisting with insurance costs 

Artists have a responsibility to:

• understand legal responsibilities and mitigate risk

• meet legal obligations related to insurance, in particular public liability and professional indemnity

• review agreements to ensure their current insurance coverage matches requirements, and that insurance requests are appropriate to the project

Agreements should:

• outline, in writing negotiated responsibilities prior to beginning work, in particular in the areas of contents insurance, workers compensation and professional indemnity

• outline insurance for transfer of ownership arrangements – generally responsibility of artwork-related insurance lies with the party in possession or control of the artwork