School trips can be extremely fun, stimulating and educationally beneficial for students of all ages, but they can also be a little dangerous if not properly planned. Health and safety should always be a top priority during the planning of educational trips and visits.
There is no reason why health and safety concerns or red tape should stand in the way of you organising a fantastic, exciting school trip. However, it should always be at the forefront of your mind when planning any school trip activity.
Your colleagues and yourself will be acting in the role of loco parentis during the trip itself. This means acting in the place of parents, placing a big legal and moral responsibility for the welfare of all participating children on your shoulders.
Health and safety issues can be eliminated or at least diminished by carrying out a full and thorough risk assessment. This should be done for every event, activity and venue you plan to attend, do and visit respectively. You also need to think about the particular needs and abilities of each child who will be taking part in the trip.
Work out what kinds of risks will be associated with each event or involved in each activity, as well as which people are the most likely to be affected by these risks. You should also ask yourself- what measures can be put in place to reduce these risks? Even with a whole host of safety measure in place, your planned trip may still be too dangerous. If so, your plans may need to be altered.
Make sure that each teacher and other volunteer or parent going on the school trip has a copy of the risk assessment before you go, so that you can work as a team to continually monitor and manage risks, and act when appropriate.
There is no reason why health and safety concerns or red tape should stand in the way of you organising a fantastic, exciting school trip. However, it should always be at the forefront of your mind when planning any school trip activity.
Your colleagues and yourself will be acting in the role of loco parentis during the trip itself. This means acting in the place of parents, placing a big legal and moral responsibility for the welfare of all participating children on your shoulders.
Health and safety issues can be eliminated or at least diminished by carrying out a full and thorough risk assessment. This should be done for every event, activity and venue you plan to attend, do and visit respectively. You also need to think about the particular needs and abilities of each child who will be taking part in the trip.
Work out what kinds of risks will be associated with each event or involved in each activity, as well as which people are the most likely to be affected by these risks. You should also ask yourself- what measures can be put in place to reduce these risks? Even with a whole host of safety measure in place, your planned trip may still be too dangerous. If so, your plans may need to be altered.
Make sure that each teacher and other volunteer or parent going on the school trip has a copy of the risk assessment before you go, so that you can work as a team to continually monitor and manage risks, and act when appropriate.
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