Health and safety in schools

The protection of our service users and your own safety is our top priority. Here we detail our responsibilities towards ensuring the safety of our staff, clients and pupils. We also provide guidance on your responsibilities to protect yourself, other staff, clients and pupils in your care.

Children's services health and safety policy

Details the responsibilities we all have in  managing health and safety within Children's Services. Detailed information on what to do to fully comply with the policy and legislation is provided by guidance notes and other supporting documentation.

• The health and safety policy
• Health and safety arrangements policy framework for schools  
• Fire Policy

Health and safety of pupils on school visits

School visits provide pupils with a range of learning and developing experiences that would be otherwise impossible.

Procedures and guidance for the organisation of school visits are attached to the following links.

• Off-site visits notification and approval system
• Off-site visits policy and procedures 2011

Incident or accident reporting

It is important to report all accidents/incidents. Any serious injury, or any incident where time is lost or when a member of the public or pupils/clients are taken from the site to hospital, should be reported to us by telephone on 020 7525 3808 as soon as possible.

• Guidance on incident/accident reporting
• Guidance on incident/accident investigation
• Incident/accident report for HS1
• Incident/accident investigation form HS2
• Incident/accident report form for pupils HS3

Health and safety guidance and procedures 

These explain what must be done in order to meet the minimum requirements of legislation, the health and safety policy and accepted best practice.

• Asbestos management
• Risk assessment
• Managing stress in the workplace for managers
• Guidance for managers on risks from display screen equipment (DSE)
• New and expectant mothers in the workplace
• Fire risk assessment and precautions
• Working from home/flexible working for managers
• The role of health and safety representatives
• Lone working
• Managing violence at work
• Infectious diseases
• Manual handling
• Safety in kitchens
• First aid
• Working at Height
• Animals in schools/farm visits
• Safety in cookery lessons
• Food safety in school kitchens

• Control of Substances Hazardous to Health

Checklists and forms

• Asbestos management plan template
• Health and safety induction
• Monthly workplace inspection
• Annual workplace inspection
• Permit to work monitoring
• Risk assessment form
• Permit to work
• Register of permit to work systems
• Hazardous substance product inventory form
• Hazardous substance product questionnaire
• Hazardous substance work activity form
• Personal emergency evacuation plan

Information for staff

• Safe use of computers
• Coping with stress
• Personal safety

Health and safety management system

• Control of safety management system
• Health and safety plans
• Information and communication