Effective School Management

Safety policies
As we have already mentioned, the Health and Safety at Work Act requires:
Every employer to prepare (and as often as may be appropriate revise) a written
statement of his general policy with respect to
(a) the health and safety at work of his employees; and
(b) the organization and arrangements for the time being for carrying out
that policy;
and bring the statement and any revision of it to the notice of all his employees.
This is all the guidance that the Act gives, but for practical purposes there will
be a policy published by the LEA and there should also be a separate policy
for each school. Both these policies should be displayed on a notice-board,
included in any literature given to staff for their guidance and discussed during
any health and safety training sessions. We suggest that the content of the
policy should express a general commitment to the health and safety of staff
and pupils and go on to cover the other items in our ‘framework’.