Effective School Management

Training of staff and pupils
The school should ensure that all staff are familiar with the safety policy and
know how to carry it out. They should also recognize that they have a duty to
teach children how to recognize hazards, assess and control risks and behave
safely (QCA/HSE, 1999). Ofsted inspectors will require proof of this. A useful
leaflet entitled Preparing Young People for a Safer Life was issued in 2000 (HSE/
IOSH/CCC, 2000).
The Social Security Act 1975 requires that an accident book be kept.
Training should include the procedure for logging all accidents and for the
reporting of more serious accidents to the local office of the Health and Safety
Executive on form 2508 by the quickest means available (i.e. e-mail or fax). Staff
should also be taught – and given a choice to practise – ‘hazard-spotting’ and
‘risk assessment’.

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