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The Health & safety executive:
HSE is the national independent watchdog for work-related health, safety and illness.
They are an independent regulator and act in the public interest to reduce work-related death and serious injury across Great Britain’s workplaces

Child accident prevention tust:
They are committed to reducing the number of children and young people killed, disabled or seriously injured in accidents.

Department for schools and families
The Department for Education is committed to creating a world-class state education system. They will work to improve the opportunities and experiences available to children and the education workforce by focusing on the following priorities:
Giving greater autonomy to schools
Improving parental choice
Offering more support for the poorest
Whole system improvement
Great quality provision for children

A Workplace's policies and procedures:

Risk Assessment:
Risk Assessments are a legal requirement mainly under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, although most health and safety legislation requires a risk assessment approach.

Risk Assessments must be recorded. This could be in the CYPD’s Generic Risk Assessment booklets or on the risk assessment form (a blank assessment form can be found at the back of each of the generic booklets). The booklets must be kept on the school premises. Risks should be assessed periodically, following an accident, on the introduction of any new process/equipment and also any change in circumstances. Educational visits also require a written risk assessment. There is a folder of the most frequently used venues in the staff room, containing risk assessments. There is also a folder containing risk assessments for each group in the same place. All staff and group leaders must ensure that they have read these documents before embarking on a trip and must sign to acknowledge this each time they take pupils on a trip as part of the signing out procedure.

Shown below are the names of the staff assisting with the assessment process as well as details on when they will be carried out and our updating systems.

The following people assist with the assessment process for their individual area of work:

It is the Head Teachers responsibility to ensure that risk assessments are carried out. However the Head Teacher may request the assistance of competent staff in carrying out a risk assessment.

Fire

An outbreak of fire in a school can be extremely serious. Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, there is a legal requirement for each building to have an up to date fire risk assessment. This should identify all sources of heat with the potential to cause fire e.g. gas heaters, bunsen burners, cookers etc. and also consider the storage of combustible materials.

Accidents

Even in a safety conscious school, accidents may still occur. This is how we deal with them.

All accidents to our staff or pupils will be recorded and investigated, as appropriate to find out what happened and how any similar incident can be avoided.


Under the First Aid at Work Regulations 1981, employers have to ensure that there are adequate and appropriate equipment and facilities for providing first aid in the workplace. This should include arrangements for first aid based on a risk assessment of the school.

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