Safety Statements for Schools

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The Department of Education and Health and Safety Authority have recently undertaken a joint project and published Guidelines on Managing Safety and Health in Post-Primary Schools.

Schools have recently become a focus of HSA inspections.

A school is a workplace with its own specific hazards (e.g. school laboratories, etc) and each school is required by 2005 Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act to have a written safety statement and risk assessment in place. The safety statement should clearly define:

- safety and health policy (signed by senior management);

- school profile;

- resources for managing health and safety and their responsibilities;

- specific risk assessment;

- emergency procedures (fire and other emergency evacuations, first aid, chemical spills, accidents, dangerous occurrences, etc);

- arrangements for health and safety training;

- communication and consultation policies.

Each and every employer has moral and legal reasons for managing safety and health at work and is required to have safety statement and written risk assessment in place.

AK Safety Management can help you to comply with the requirements of current health and safety legislation and prepare fully compliant health and safety statement and risk assessment for your school.