In our experience, everyone understands the basic issues. The Duty Holder (typically the Head Teacher) has to ensure that the following statutory obligations are met:– Find asbestos (surveys) Prevent exposure through an Asbestos Management Plan (AMP) e.g. risk assessment of activities; conducting abatement works where required; control work is done by staff or contractors and most importantly maintenance…
When hearing the term ‘Lockdown’, many people envisage a terror attack or other major incident and consider it highly unlikely to affect their school. However, lockdown procedures are not primarily aimed at protecting a school from unlikely terrorist activity.
One of the main issues that I come across when working with schools’ is the way that accidents are treated. So to truly understand how to deal with accidents in school you must understand the whole process from incident all…
With the increasing number of schools in the UK moving towards self-governance by becoming academies and moving away from local authority control, it has become even more important that schools ensure they manage contractors correctly. But this is an area…
The constantly changing guidance around the COVID-19 pandemic means that risk assessments have to be reviewed regularly to ensure the safety of staff and students. Andy Large, Consultant at SafetyMARK, provides some practical guidance on how to manage risk assessments…
At SafetyMARK, when we go out to audit schools we get asked about the level of training required for a School Business Manager, Site Manager or Bursar should have to be able to discharge their responsibilities for Health & Safety…