It is a legal requirement that all schools must undertake an assessment of the risks related to the regular and occasional activities of teaching and non-teaching staff, students and pupils, parents and other visitors to the school.

To meet this requirement all schools are obliged to provide a written policy concerning the health and safety at work of everyone who uses the school and covering all aspects of school life. Within the policy specific risks and hazards have to be identified and assessed, and there has to be a statement of the ways in which these problems are dealt with.

This copiable volume contains over 50 individual risk assessments plus a series of check lists to allow you to assess hazards and potential risks around the school and then to measure the risk severity in respect of the hazard, giving it a rating from insignificant to unacceptable. This rating enables you to determine whether or not effective controls need to be introduced in order to reduce the risk to a level deemed acceptable. This approach has the additional advantafge in that it allows school to take a uniform approach to the assessment of risk across the enitre range of school activities.

Risk Assessment Documents for Secondary Schools is available as a copiable book so that the documents can be re-used throughout the school and can be re-used when assessments are re-considered each year and when changes in procedure are monitored. It is also available on CD Rom in a form that allows the school to modify the text and incorporate the templates into the school's own risk assessment reports.

Cat No: 978 1 86083 711 1