Your placement company should provide information about their employers’ liability and public liability policies to meet their legal liabilities towards you. However, not all countries have the equivalent to the UK’s employers’ or public
liability, some having voluntary or statutory workman’s compensation schemes run by the state, which do not always offer protection to placement students.
If your placement company is unable to insure your legal liability as an employee, the University’s public liability cover will automatically extend to include this risk but this must be confirmed with your faculty. Please note that this does not
extend to insuring the host’s own liability to you, so you should obtain a personal accident policy to cover you.
Details of your insurance policy provider and policy number should be notified to your Faculty Placements and Partnerships team, copied to erasmus@brookes.ac.uk and recorded on your Learning Agreement for traineeships.