Health and Safety 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 clints and pupils. We also provide guidance on your responsibilities to protect yourself, other staff, clientsand pupils in your care.
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Childrens 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.
Children's Services emergency response plan
This section provides information on how to develop plans to manage a range of emergency situations that may arise, and contains contact details of where help can be obtained.
Health and safety of pupils/clients on external visits
External visits are essential for the development of clients and pupils and provide a range of learning experiences that would be otherwise impossible. The guidance here should be followed whoever is organising the external visit, although not all procedures are necessary for all visits.We have a page of guidance for parents about safety on school trips, and the following for organisers.
Incident or accident reporting
It is important to report any incident, this includes aches and pains when working with computers, verbal abuse and threatening behaviour, as well as injuries or assaults that occur while working.
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 5035 as soon as possible.
Managers should then carry out an investigation into the causes of the incident, as outlined below.following this, please complete and return the appropriate form, keeping a copy for themselves.
 Management Guidance notes
These explain what must be done in order to meet the minimum requirements of legislation, the health and safety policy and accepted best practice
Thes help with the health and safety of specific school issues, although some may have awider audience.
Checklists
These provide a framework that should be followed on each topic to ensure that nothing is missed
Health and safety forms
These forms ensure the recording of information in an approved format.
Information for Staff
These outline simple measures that staff should take to prevent harm to themselves or others.
Health and Safety management system
these notes provide infromation on the way that the safety management system is controlled within Children's Services.
Children's Services health and safety team
We are here to help on any health and safety issue, if you have any queries please let us know.
Dave Norwich
Health and safety manager
Tel: 020 7525 5034
Emmanuel Boateng
Health and safety adviser
Tel: 020 7525 5259
Justina Onuorah
Health and safety project officer
Tel: 020 7525 5035
Lee Tapping
Health and Safety Manager
Tel: 020 7525 3808
Contact
Dave Norwich
Children's Services health and safety manager
Tel: 020 7525 5034
Fax: 020 7525 3955
david.norwich@southwark.gov.uk
Children's services
Woodmill Building
London
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