School Health & Safety
Who do we work with?
Schools and Academies
From Pre-schools to Secondary. Private Schools, Local Authority Schools and Academies - Building sensible cost effective health and safety for schools is what we do best.
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Multi-Academy Trusts
A consistent approach to health and safety across your schools, providing structure for your Heads and a framework for any new schools as you grow.
Heads, Boards, and Trustees
Giving you a framework for understanding and recording your health and safety performance, delivering training, and assurance to those who are responsible for the direction, development and future of our Educational Establishments
How do we work?
Expert in School Health and Safety we understand the scale of building compliance issues, the fast paced, multidisciplinary environments you operate in, the degree of duty and the complex varying several compliance authorities.
Safetying can help with:
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Ofsted & ISI inspections
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Educational visits and trips safety
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Invac and Martins law procedure
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Business continuity planning
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Health and Safety at Work Act
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Building safety and compliance
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DSE and Stress management
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Health and Safety Policy writing
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Risk Assessment Development
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Health and safety compliance framework
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Out of term hire duties and compliances
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Health and Safety training focused on the school environment
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And much more please check out our Services page for more details or feel free to contact us directly to talk about what we can do for your School.
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Safetying also works with College and Adult education, see the link below for more information.
Health and Safety in Schools
Who is responsible for Health and Safety in School?
The employer - if the school is local authority this will be the local council, if the school is Independant an Academy or part of an Academy Trust then the CEO or whoever holds this role under different title but has operational overall responsibility is legally responsible for health and safety.
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What health and safety responsibilities do teachers have?
Teachers like any other employees have the responsibility to follow the health and safety instruction, information and training they are given by their employer.
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What Risk Assessments does a School need?
Schools should have a risk assessment that covers the school, its regular daily operation and activities, Schools should also risk assess their of premises activities but it is important noty to get weighed down by paper work. A good quality school risk assessment only needs to be 2-3 pages maximum and must be reviewed annually, following accidents or near misses or where there are any significant changes.
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What is the best Health and Safety advice you can give to Schools?
Less is more and do not underestimate the value of near miss recording.
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If you want to work with a School Health and Safety Specialist then get in touch, we will arrange a suitable time to visit or call and discuss what support you need - Safetying is solution focused so we won't leave you with a massive list of problems. This company was started to give better Health and Safety support to schools - we are passionate about good sensible School Health and Safety.
Finance vs Safety
The price of Health and Safety in education can have you running for the exit or burying your head in the sand. Knowing you need to ensure safe environments should not be a gamble on how long you can hold out.
Safetying was created because Education needs a tailored solution that understands there is no endless pot of money, we can focus on your priorities and make sure you are balancing risk with compliance functionally within a low risk appetite environment.
Please see Prices for more information on how we can make Health and Safety affordable for your School.
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