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Mark.H.V.Corps Angling Advisor. Off Site Safety Management. A few things to consider. Health & Safety on Educational Visits DfES currently provides advice in the Good Practice Guide Health & Safety of Pupils on Educational Visits published 1998 and available free from Prolog. (HASPEV 2).
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Mark.H.V.Corps Angling Advisor
Off Site Safety Management A few things to consider
Health & Safety on Educational Visits DfES currently provides advice in the Good Practice Guide Health & Safety of Pupils on Educational Visits published 1998 and available free from Prolog. (HASPEV 2)
Health & Safety • Clarification of legal responsibilities • and powers • Health & Safety at Work • Who is the Employer? • Voluntary Aided & Foundation? • ‘The LEA cannot fulfill its statutory duty unless it monitors how its schools are complying with the LEA policy. • The LEA should monitor this robustly to ensure required standards are reached and should take action where they are not.’ • DfES 0803/2001 Statutory
Roles of LEA & School: • Outdoor Ed Adviser • EVC • Risk Assessment • Competence • Policies & procedures • 2002
Organisation of school led adventure activities • Competence • Categories of adventurous activities • Risk Assessment • Supervision • 2002
Supervision • ‘Down Time’ • On going Risk Assessment • Emergency Procedures • Advice on Specific Activities • Coastal Visits • Swimming in the Sea etc • Farm Visits • 2002
Duty of Care - everyone is required to take reasonable care in any situation in which harm to someone else could be foreseen. • Higher Duty of Care - the standard of care expected with increased experience and specialist expertise where, through training or experience, one may be expected to visualise more clearly the results of one’s actions in one’s area/s of specialism.
Negligence - acts or omissions by someone with a duty of care in which this is breached by falling below the standard of care required in the circumstances to protect others from the unreasonable risk of harm. The three concepts of duty, breach and harm are more simply expressed as having a responsibility, being careless which results in injury or death.
Initial PlanningGroup Composition • Age • Gender • Previous experience • Ability • Numbers • Match to activity
Special requirements for individuals • Institution’s staffing requirements • Experience and qualifications • Ratios to group • Constraints
Overall planning • aims and objectives of the visit • activity • programme • travel arrangements • venue - residential base - activity sites • activity / staffing - match to group - qualifications / experience of staff - ratios - responsibilities - qualifications - experience - equipment and resources
Group code of practice • Clothing and equipment • Communications • - internal • - external • Emergency procedures • Information carried by staff or left at base • Environmental conditions - weather conditions • - seasonal considerations • Decision making • Concern for the environment
Minor Incidents (p 41 – 43) • For minor incidents occurring off-site, the accompanying school and Regional Fisheries Board staff, will be expected to deal with the outcome. It might be a simple first aid application or behavioural problem. It will, be dealt with through the established internal arrangements of the Regional Board or staff accompanying the young people to the off-site venue. Group leader responsibilities need to be defined, as well as those of all other staff before the group go on their activity.
Major incident • Where for example a group is lost, a mini-bus has seriously crashed or a young person(s) has been injured procedures need to cover actions: 1. at the incident scene at the time 2. for communicating with the police, rescue services, and to key personnel at the school and back at the Regional Fisheries Board to inform parents, media, organising body, other young people 3. to enable the group to securely return to the school and their homes 4. that maintain sensitive relations with the media 5. to effect post-incident care of group members, staff and others closely involved. 6. record essential incident information
Practical Group Management • Head counts • Ratios, small cells & buddy systems • Communications • Parking & disembarking • Road traffic issues • Group briefing • Specific hazards • Managing ‘downtime’ • Managing lunch breaks etc. • Buffer zones • Collection points • Involving students in the process
Working by Water • Water hazard avoidance • Depth, Speed, Temperature, Water Quality? • Dealing with incidents • Improvised rescue reach – throw – wade – tow • Paddling versus swimming?
