Health and safety manual
A health and safety manual, including Safe Working Procedures (SWPs), has been designed specifically to help head teachers and their management teams achieve their health and safety aims by providing clear and straightforward information tailored to reflect the school setting.
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- Communication, consultation and cooperation
- Construction, design and management regulations
- CDM regulations
- Chemical safety in school pools
- Construction sites on school premises
- Contractors
- Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)
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- Electricity - guidance
- Emergency planning
- Employee support assessment
- Engineering inspections
- Events management - guidance
- Extended schools - health and safety guidance
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- Filming school plays
- Finger entrapment in doors
- Fire and emergency procedure
- Firework displays in school grounds
- First aid
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- Hall capacity
- Hazardous pursuits
- Head lice
- Health and safety for managers
- Health and safety law poster information
- Health and safety legislation in schools
- Hepatitis B policy
- Hot weather - dealing with summer overheating in schools
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- Infection control in schools
- Inflatable bouncing devices
- Inhalers - emergency Salbutamol
- Interactive whiteboards
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- Legionella risk in schools and colleges
- Legionella management in educational establishments
- Lettings management
- Lifting equipment
- Lithium battery guidance
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- Management of health and safety at work - guidance
- Managing wellbeing at work
- Medical support to pupils in school
- Manual handling and lifting
- Minor accident reporting
- Mobile phones
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- Needlestick injuries
- New or expectant mothers - guidance
- New or expectant mothers - risk assessment
- Noise at work
- Notice board and fire precautions
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- Performance review of health and safety in schools
- Personal protective equipment (PPE)
- Physical education - guidance
- Physical education - BAALPE poster
- Play areas - guidance on inspecting children's outdoor play areas in school grounds
- Play equipment safety
- Playgrounds and playing fields
- Prevention of violence and intimidation
- Prohibiting/warning of people
- Pupil incident reporting guide
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- Safety guidelines for ponds in school grounds
- Safety signs
- School cleaning - little and often manual
- School cleaning manual
- Schools landlord consent form
- School premises regulations
- School safety during holiday periods
- School training matrix
- Schools safety inspections
- Schools and sun protection
- Science
- Screening and searching pupils for weapons
- Security of school premises
- Slips, trips and falls
- Snow and ice clearance for school premises
- Stress management at work
- Staged health and safety audit for schools - advice note
- Swimming and therapy pools
- Swimming pools covers
- Swimming pools - chemical safety in school pools
Safe working procedures
- Safe working procedure - Accident/incident reporting and investigation
- Safe working procedure - Confined spaces
- Safe working procedure - Contamination and needlesticks incidents
- Safe working procedure - Control of contractors - Construction and building maintenance
- Safe working procedure - Control of contractors - Service providers and suppliers of goods
- Safe working procedure - Control of substances hazardous to health (COSHH)
- Safe working procedure - Control of vibration at work
- Safe working procedure - Dangerous substances & explosive atmospheres (DSEAR)
- Safe working procedure - Display screen equipment (DSE)
- Safe working procedure - Driving vehicles while working
- Safe working procedure - Electrical safety in the workplace
- Safe working procedure - Fire door protocol
- Safe working procedure - Firework display
- Safe working procedure - First Aid
- Safe working procedure - Gas safety
- Safe working procedure - Health and safety training
- Safe working procedure - Hybrid working
- Safe working procedure - Incident list
- Safe working procedure - Lifting operations and lifting equipment
- Safe working procedure - Lift trappings
- Safe working procedure - Liquefied Petroleum Gas in Cylinders (LPG)
- Safe working procedure - Managing food hygiene
- Safe working procedure - Managing health and safety in catering
- Safe working procedure - Managing wellbeing at work
- Safe working procedure - Manual handling
- Safe working procedure - Medical support to pupils
- Safe working procedure - Moving and handling of people
- Safe working procedure - Moving and handling of pupils
- Safe working procedure - New and expectant mothers
- Safe working procedure - Noise at work
- Safe working procedure - Permit to work
- Safe working procedure - Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Safe working procedure - Persons in a training role and young persons at work
- Safe working procedure - Play equipment
- Safe working procedure - Preventing workplace harassment and violence
- Safe working procedure - Property management and compliance
- Safe working procedure - Risk assessment
- Safe working procedure - Safety representatives
- Safe working procedure - Safety of licensed goods vehicles
- Safe working procedure - Work equipment
- Safe working procedure - Working alone in safety
- Safe working procedure - Working on or near the railway
- Safe working procedure - Working safely at height
- Safe working procedure - Workplace health, safety and welfare
- Safe working procedure - Workplace transport
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- Ticks and Lyme disease guidance
- Toilet provision for pupils guidance
- Training and competency guidance
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- Water temperature guidance
- Welfare arrangements guidance
- Woodworking machinery guidance
- Work equipment guidance
- Working alone in safety guidance
- Working safely at height guidance
- Workplace inspection form
- Workplace temperature guidance
- Workplace transport checklist
- Workplace transport guidance
- Workshops guidance
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