Health, Safety and Wellbeing for Education
Induction, records, incident reporting and follow-through.
What this looks like in education
The parts of health, safety and wellbeing that are specific to this sector, rather than general.
Safety and Wellbeing in an Institution
Staff wellbeing alongside a duty toward students.
What this coversHide
Safety and Wellbeing in an Institution
Staff wellbeing alongside a duty toward students.
What this coversHideInstitutional safety covers premises, laboratories and transport, and institutional wellbeing has an additional dimension: staff carry responsibility for young people, which is its own load.
- Laboratory, workshop and equipment safety for staff and students
- Campus premises, fire and evacuation readiness
- Transport safety where the institution operates vehicles
- Staff workload during admission and examination periods
- Support where staff face aggression from parents or students
- Safeguarding responsibilities understood by all staff
- Confidential support route for staff
- Incident reporting covering both staff and students
Staff facing aggression from parents is an under-acknowledged institutional wellbeing issue, and teachers frequently absorb it because there is no route that treats it seriously.
The general method — what health, safety and wellbeing covers, the questions it answers and what an engagement produces — is the same whatever the sector, and is set out on the workplace health, safety and wellbeing page. What is above is the part that differs for education.
Other HR topics for education
Where to start
Most engagements begin with a review of how this runs in your business today, then a written process and the sequence to implement it.