Our school aims to comply with the Education Department’s Health and Safety policy.
The objective is to minimise accident and sickness absence rates and to promote the well being of staff and pupils by developing a positive attitude to Health and Safety. In doing so the school will also comply with the Health & Safety at Work Act (1974) and all other relevant legislation. The school accepts that involvement, co-operation and effective communication of all employees on both an individual and collective basis is crucial to the accomplishment of the schools’ Health and Safety aims. Health and Safety objectives need to be specific, measurable and agreed with those who deliver them and realistically set against a suitable timescale.
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If the activity is well planned and organised with thought given to possible risks and the likelihood of an accident or injury, they should be minimal. Very important thing is to balance the risks of an activity against the benefit to and safety of the child.
Risk and challenge are important to a child’s development. Avoiding all risks and challenges would result in a very timid adult lacking in many everyday skills and abilities. It would be very easy to respond to all the risks to which children are exposed by not allowing them to explore or experiment.
Children need to explore their environment, it is one of the ways in which they learn, but it needs to be a “safe” environment where the risk is controlled by adults. Children need some freedom in order to develop their skills. If an accident or injury will happen under certain circumstances they may need to be reported to the Health and Safety Executive, particularly if the child is seriously injured, examples of this would include