Health and Safety

Ensuring health and safety in schools is an essential part of any school manager’s responsibility. 

Ensuring a healthy and safe environment for staff, pupils, and visitors is an essential part of any school manager’s responsibility and to do this successfully, an effective health and safety management system should be in place.  

Generic Risk Assessments produced to assist Schools and Managers with the Risk Assessment process and should form a good foundation for identifying hazards, assessing risks and implementing controls.

Safety alerts are issued to quickly warn schools when potentially dangerous equipment, processes, procedures or substances are identified as a result of an incident or notification from HSENI or other sources. 

The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) provides advice on defibrillators which includes a link to where they can be found across Northern Ireland.

A platform for Schools and EA Services to report accidents, near misses, unsafe acts and unsafe conditions.