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We believe that the health and safety of children is of paramount importance. We make our settings safe and healthy places 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.

 

EYFS 3.65. Providers must ensure that they take all reasonable steps to ensure staff and children in their care are not exposed to risks and must be able to demonstrate how they are managing risks. Providers must determine where it is helpful to make some written risk assessments in relation to specific issues, to inform staff practice, and to demonstrate how they are managing risks if asked by parents and/or carers or inspectors. Risk assessments should identify aspects of the environment that need to be checked on a regular basis, when and by whom those aspects will be checked, and how the risk will be removed or minimised.

 

Risk assessment processes follow five steps as follows:

 

1. Identification of risk: Where is it and what is it?

2. Who is at risk: Childcare staff, children, parents, cleaners etc?

3. Assessment as to the level of risk as high, medium or low. This is both the risk of the likelihood of it happening, as well as the possible impact if it did. We use the risk matrix to support our identification of these levels.

4. Control measures to reduce/eliminate risk. What will you need to do, or ensure others will do in order to reduce that risk?

5. 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.

 

Our risk assessment process covers adults and children and includes:

 

• Checking for and noting hazards and risks indoors and outdoors, 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.

• Maintain lists of health and safety issues, which are checked daily before and after the session, as well as those that are checked weekly.