Hi, your presence and a genuine interest in the activity - looking at what's going on is all you need to be highly involved. Child led enables children to risk assess for themselves as part of their playing and exploration - leading their own activity without guided instruction ensures time is taken to see what needs to be done and how that's possible ..
Questions encourage risk to be expressed and disscused - how far to the ground, how far to the top, how will you get down, how are going to get to the top, how safe is that going to be, do your friends get down/up differently, how could you get hurt doing this activity - what are the risks, how will you make sure you don't get hurt - go slow, hold on, look around, tell someone if there is a concern ..
For the youngest children you could get get down to their line of sight and look up at the climbing frame, how tall is it .. are they going to be ok, do they need help, check they know to ask you over whenever they want ..
Knowing any rules that the children have set in place for their safety and well-being - turn taking, no pushing, being patient - understanding we each take our own amount of time to do things, that we each have our own individual way of doing things, recognising and resolving conflict - they pushed, I'm going first, you can't do that' all help to promote positive relationships, child to child, child to adult, adult to child and adult to adult.
A few other risk assessing activities include scissors, cooking, knives, forks, skewers, foods, dressing up resources in varying sizes, heat, sun and fire, balancing, climbing, crawling with a close succession of children - feet to face, jumping, speed - running, weaving, bikes and other wheeled resources, loud noise, colours & symbols that indicate levels of danger, activities that acknowledge fears - spiders, animals, messy play, balloons ..
Hth
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