Join us for Episode 6 of The Safer Schools Podcast where we discuss how you can approach the task of managing risk assessments within your school – talking through some of the key challenges faced and how you can overcome them, including:
- Setting a clear Risk Assessment Policy
- When is a risk assessment required
- How you can ensure good coverage of risk assessments across your school
- Who should complete the risk assessments; and
- What format to use.
We also discuss various guidance documents and templates to assist you with the above.
As this is such a massive topic, this episode is Part 1 of 2, so don’t forget to subscribe in your podcast app to receive a reminder about Part 2 on Friday 5th April 2024.
Risk assessment is often one of the aspects that our school leaders find most challenging in terms of health and safety management; but its also one of the most important aspects to get right, because risk assessment is key to you implementing an effective health and safety management system, and its also fundamental to the way in which your school manages risk on a day-to-day basis.
So, if you’re a Bursar, Estates Manager, Health & Safety Manager, School Business Manager, Head of Department, or indeed ANYONE responsible for overseeing H&S or risk assessments in a school, then this is the episode for you!
Let’s start a conversation on how we can make our schools safer!
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We’ve provided links below to the various guidance documents and other resources referred to in this episode:
- Boarding House Risk Assessments: Pearson Webb Consulting Launch New Keeping Boarders Safe Training Course: https://www.pearsonwebb.co.uk/news/boarding-house-risk-assessments-launch-of-new-keeping-boarders-safe-training-course/
- Department for Education (DfE) guidance document on School and College Security: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-and-college-security
- Health & Safety Executive (HSE) guidance on Stress and Mental Health at Work: https://www.hse.gov.uk/stress/
- Health & Safety Executive (HSE) example stress risk assessment: https://www.hse.gov.uk/stress/assets/docs/learning-with-care-risk-assessment.pdf
- Health & Safety Executive (HSE) guidance on managing risks and risk assessment at work: https://www.hse.gov.uk/simple-health-safety/risk/
- Health & Safety Executive (HSE) webpage for schools and education: https://www.hse.gov.uk/education/
- Health & Safety Executive (HSE) Risk Assessment template (downloadable Word version): https://www.hse.gov.uk/simple-health-safety/assets/docs/risk-assessment-template.odt
