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Health and safety

Clever Clogs Pre-school 

4.2 Risk assessment

Policy statement

This setting believes that the health and safety of children is of paramount importance. We make our setting a safe and healthy place for children, parents, staff and volunteers by assessing and minimising the hazards and risks to enable the children to thrive in a healthy and safe environment.
The basis of this policy is risk assessment. Early Years Alliance risk assessment processes follow five steps as follows:

  • Identification of risk: Where is it and what is it?
  • Who is at risk: Childcare staff, children, parents, cooks, cleaners etc?
  • Assessment as to the level of risk as high, medium, low. This is both the risk of the likelihood of it happening, as well as the possible impact if it did.
  • Control measures to reduce/eliminate risk: What will you need to do, or ensure others will do, in order to reduce that risk?
  • Monitoring and review: How do you know if what you have said is working, or is thorough enough? If it is not working, it will need to be amended, or maybe there is a better solution.

Procedures

Our risk assessment process covers adults and children, which includes:

  • checking for and noting hazards and risks indoors and outside, and in our premises and for activities;
  • assessing the level of risk and who might be affected;
  • deciding which areas need attention; and ;
  • developing an action plan that specifies the action required, the time-scales for action, the person responsible for the action and any funding required.
  • We maintain lists of health and safety issues, which are checked daily before the session begins as well as those that are checked on a weekly and termly basis when a full risk assessment is carried out.
  • Daily risk assessments are carried out in the setting building and garden.
  • We also carry out a single risk assessment for a member of staff who is pregnant to assess any areas of risk to the adult and their unborn child. This risk assessment is ongoing until they leave for maternity.

Legal framework

  • Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 

 

Date: August 2024
Reviewed by: Hannah Miller (Deputy Manager)
A review of the Risk Assessment policy was carried out.

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