Episode 7 - Risk Assessment (but not as you know it!) Part 2

Join us for Episode 7 of The Safer Schools Podcast where we continue our discussion on 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:

• The need to include children and young persons as hazards where relevant (it may sound a little OTT, but just hear us out!)
• How you can actively include staff in the risk assessment process
• How you can ensure that your risk assessments are being communicated and disseminated, and the importance of evidencing this
• The use of generic and model risk assessments, including CLEAPSS model risk assessments for Science and Design Technology
• When and why risk assessments should be reviewed
• How you can monitor the effectiveness of your risk assessment policy.

We also discuss various guidance documents and templates to assist you with the above.

This episode is Part 2 of 2, and so if you haven't yet had the opportunity to listen to Episode 6 then we'd recommend that you listen to them in chronological order to gain the full benefit - and it'll just make more sense!

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!

 

Questions, comments, suggestions for topics? This is your Podcast too...

Drop an email to: info@pearsonwebb.co.uk

 

We've provided links below to the various guidance documents and other resources referred to in this episode:

• Health & Safety Executive (HSE) guidance on young people at work: https://https://www.hse.gov.uk/young-workers/employer/law.htm#:~:text=The%20law%20applying%20to%20the%20age%20of%20a%20young%20person%20or%20child&text=Children%20under%2013%20are%20generally,and%20the%20MSLA%20can%20do.
• Health & Safety Executive (HSE) example risk assessments: https://www.hse.gov.uk/simple-health-safety/risk/risk-assessment-template-and-examples.htm
• Health and Safety Executive (HSE) example risk assessment for Education: https://www.hse.gov.uk/education/example-risk-assessments.htm
• CLEAPSS guidance document L196 - Managing Risk Assessment in Science: https://science.cleapss.org.uk/Resource/L196-Managing-Risk-Assessment-in-Science.pdf
• CLEAPSS guidance document G235 - Management of Risk Assessment in D & T: https://dt.cleapss.org.uk/Resource-File/G235-Management-of-Risk-Assessment-in-D-T.pdf

 

Intro/outro music: Phello / No Signal / courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com
Intro/outro music voiceover: Eloise Pearson (aged 4 years)