The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 require suitable and sufficient risk assessments to be carried out for work activities.
Follow the 5 steps to risk assessment
- Identify the hazards
- Identify who will be harmed and how
- Evaluate the risk and decide on control measures
- Record the risk assessment
- Review the risk assessment
At Cousins Safety we have taken the hard work out of it and provided you with a bank of template risk assessments in word format for you to download and adapt for your school or nursery.
There is also a template risk assessment policy to adapt to your school.
A-Z of template generic risk assessments
Asbestos
Banking
Bouncy castles and other inflatables
Bikes and Trikes
Breakfast club/Afterschool club
Cleaning
Classrooms – general
Daytime/evening event in hall
Doors
Dogs in school
Driving for work
DSE checklist (template)
Emergency procedures
Education Visits and Journeys
First Aid
Home visits
Infection control
Keeping chickens
Lettings
Lone working
Lunchtimes and Breaks
Managing Behaviour
Management controls and procedures
Managing contractors
Managing medications
Manual handling risk assessment (template)
Office – General
Parents evenings
Ponds
Polling Station RA
Premise general
Pre-school
Power Washer
Playgrounds and play equipment, paths
Pregnancy risk assessment (template)
Pupil on crutches
Pupil risk assessment (template)
Safeguarding
Security
Snow and Ice RA
Slips, trips and falls
Steam cleaning
Stress Management
Summer fair- Christmas fair
Teachers on crutches
Vehicle movement on school premise
Violence and aggression towards staff
Volunteers RA
Work Equipment RA
Working off site
Work at height – General
WAH – Putting up displays
WAH – Accessing shelving 1M using a step ladder
WAH – Opening and closing blinds and windows
WAH – Changing light bulbs
WAH – Use of ladder (30 mins) for short duration of work
WAH – Use of mobile towers
WAH – Lighting for school production
Young person risk assessment – Cleaner
Young Person risk assessment – Classroom
Young Person risk assessment – PE
Young Person risk assessment-
Recently Added Risk Assessments
Template Risk Assessment Procedure (to adapt for your school)
Schools should have a written risk assessment policy that sets out the procedure for completing risk assessments and how to monitor actions and reviews.
Question – Staff require “training” before they can complete a risk assessment.
Answer – No they just need to be Competent in other words have knowledge in the risks associated with this area.
Blank risk assessment – template for school to record their own risk assessment
Risk assessment Inventory spreadsheet
This is a list of Risk Assessments for your school or setting and helps keep track of when they were last reviewed.
Remember the HSE does not require schools to review risk assessments annually.
At Cousins Safety we recommend that risk assessments are reviewed every 2 years or if circumstances or there is an accident whichever is the sooner.
Risk Assessment Action plan – Designed to track and record actions identifed from the risk assessments
Curriculum safety
Curriculum risk assessment should be completed for areas such as:
- Design Technology
- Science
- PE
- Food tech
- Textiles
- Art