Health and Safety Audit for Schools
A school Health and Safety audit is good way of checking your school is complying with health and safety legislation and that all your employees and pupils are safe within the workplace.
Our all audits are based on the HSG65 Plan Do Check Act model and follow HSE Health and Safety in schools.
We have over 18 years experience of working with schools and the risks in schools. We work with nurseries, primary, secondary schools, academies, multi academy trusts, PFI schools to review health and safety and offer pragmatic solutions.
We work with you to tailor an audit to your school requirements.
With our specialist education consultant our audits can cover; Health and Safety, Environmental and Food Safety and Business Continuity.
To discuss your audit requirements
Call us on 01480 718007 or email info@cousinssafety.co.uk
Benefits of a School Health and Safety Audit:
- Full picture of health and safety risks
- Assesses effectiveness of your training
- Raises standards and demonstrates commitment and compliance to regulators including Ofsted and the DFE.
- Demonstrates legal compliance and can assist with defence if something goes wrong.
- Monitoring performance in line with HSG65
- Provides assurance to key stakeholders that health and safety is managed
- Identify areas for improvement as well as highlighting positive activities within your organisation.
- Identifies best practice and efficiency savings
- Upskills key school staff
- Leads to lower insurance premiums
What is covered in the School Health and Safety Audit?
- Health and Safety Management (School health and safety policy)
- Building Management in areas such as Fire safety, Legionella, Asbestos etc
- Classroom safety
- Managing medicines, first aid, lettings
- Curriculum safety (Science, DT, Food Technology, Art, Textiles and PE)
- Risk assessments, visits and journeys, breakfast clubs and any after school club
- School security
We will provide you with a list of requirements to help you prepare for the audit.
Following the workplace audit we will prepare a detailed report and action plan that is easy to follow and provide supporting photographs.
The report will detail your current arrangements along with actions you need to take to ensure you are meeting your statutory requirements.
Actions will be prioritised in order so you know which areas will need immediate or short-term action.
Our auditors are experienced in carrying out these audits in schools where it is tailored to the size of your organisation and clearly shows where you are complying with legislation and improvements need to be made.
Areas covered:
What our clients say about us
We have worked in partnership with Cousins Safety for several years. We chose to work with Sherryl as she has extensive experience in supporting schools, is professional, knowledgeable and friendly. We appreciate her advice and are confident to share our practice with her so she can identify ways in which we can improve our systems and safety.
We feel that we have developed a genuine partnership. What’s special about Cousins Safety is that you know that Sherryl really cares about your school and staff, she has a real and obvious commitment to improving health and safety. She’s practical, pragmatic and keen dispel the myths about ‘we can’t do that because of Health and Safety’.
She works with you to seek practical workable solutions for your school. I would recommend Cousins Safety to any school – particularly if you are a new Head or Business Manager. Her no nonsense audit and report would be an excellent start to see where things are working and what could be improved.
Alexia Moyle, School Business Manager, Greenleas School
The next steps following the School Health and Safety Audit
Many schools feel confident enough to take forward the action plan on their own but for many that struggle for time they use our expertise to help fill in the gaps in their safety management system.
Don’t worry we’ve got you. This could include us spending time updating policies, completing risk assessments or attending safety committee meetings. We help schools from feeling overwhelmed and time poor due to other demands on your time.
