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Risk Assessment in Education eLearning
Online risk assessment training for schools: classrooms, practical subjects, premises and trips, and the assessments an inspector will actually ask to see.
Who it is for
Who this risk assessment in education course is for
Schools produce more risk assessments than almost any other kind of employer, and most are written by teachers with no training in it. This course gives them a method that holds up.
- Teachers and subject leaders
- Science, technology and PE staff
- Site and premises managers
- Educational visits coordinators
- School business managers and bursars
- Governors with a health and safety remit
Course content
What the risk assessment in education course covers
Five short lessons covering hazard and risk in a school, practical subjects, premises and grounds, educational visits, and recording and review, then a 12-question assessment.
Hazard, risk and who might be harmed
Hazard and risk in a school context, the duty to assess, and the pupils, staff and visitors who might be harmed.
Classroom and practical subjects
Assessing practical subjects such as science, DT, food and PE, and using CLEAPSS and department assessments.
Premises and grounds
Assessing the school site, playgrounds, play equipment, traffic, contractors and premises hazards such as asbestos.
Educational visits
Planning and assessing trips proportionately, the role of the educational visits coordinator, and supervision.
Recording and review
Recording school risk assessments proportionately, writing controls others can follow, sharing them, and reviewing them.
Outcomes
What you will be able to do afterwards
- Distinguish hazard from risk in a school, and who might be harmed
- Assess practical subject activities appropriately
- Assess premises, grounds and contractor work
- Contribute to an educational visit risk assessment
- Record findings proportionately and review them
Your legal duty
The law behind risk assessment in education training
The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 require every employer to assess the risks to employees and to anyone else affected by their work. In a school, that second group is mostly pupils and visitors, which is why school assessments look different from an office's.
Who the employer is varies by school type, and national and local guidance sits on top of the general duty, particularly for educational visits. Your own policy and your local authority or trust are the reference point for that.
- Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 - the duty to assess
- Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 - sections 2 and 3
- Pupils and visitors are the people most affected by a school's undertaking
- Educational visits also follow national and local guidance
Practicalities
How the course works
Would you rather have a tutor?
For non-school settings, the general risk assessment course applies.
For employers
Risk Assessment in Education training for a team
Assessments written to a common standard across departments are far easier to review and much easier to defend.
- One invoice instead of a card payment per person
- Licences allocated as people join, so induction is covered
- Completion and expiry reporting for your records
- Renewal reminders before certificates lapse
- Bespoke versions built around your own procedures
Risk Assessment in Education eLearning: common questions
Yes. Schools are employers and the duty to assess risks to employees and to others affected applies in full, which in a school means pupils and visitors as well as staff.
In practice, teachers, subject leaders and site staff. This course is aimed at exactly those people, because the duty usually lands on them without any training.
It covers the principles of off-site assessment. Detailed educational visit procedures follow national and local guidance and your own school policy.
Suitable and sufficient, and proportionate to the risk. A low-risk classroom does not need what a technology workshop needs, and the course covers how to judge that.
About 30 to 45 minutes, with no time limit: start it, pause it, and come back whenever suits. The certificate is issued as soon as you pass the end assessment.
Yes. It runs in a browser on any modern phone, tablet or computer, with nothing to install.
Yes. Open a business account and we invoice you for the licences, which you allocate as people need them, with completion reporting included.