Transcript PS 68 D&T class sizes, room sizes & safety NO!

RDTHSC Conference CLEAPSS UPDATE
PS 65 Immediate remedial measures for D&T
L 235 Managing Risk Assessment for D&T
L 254 Health and Safety Maintenance of D&T
Workshop Equipment
PS 68 D&T class sizes, room sizes & safety
PS 65 Immediate remedial measures for D&T
Designed to meet a need for teachers to know what should
be done in the event of an accident, and prior to the arrival
of a qualified first aider.
Some key messages
D&T teachers need to know of the existence of this document.
Schools need to establish procedures that will enable the
immediate remedial measures to be taken
D&T teachers will need to practice the measures suggested.
L 235 Managing Risk Assessment for D&T
Designed to provide teachers with the essential information
required to carry out effective risk assessments.
Some key messages
“... schools are deluding themselves if they think that just
having a set of Model Risk Assessments for Design and
Technology (MRATS) on the shelf, or perhaps that by
making a note in the scheme of work ‘MRATS 1.066’ they
are doing all that is necessary.”
There are still lots of schools where only this is done, or
even worse, where less than this is done. A lot of schools
are still using old versions of MRATS.
L 235 Managing Risk Assessment for D&T
Management of Health and Safety at Work Approved Code
of Practice and Guidance, 2000, states:
“… employers or managers at each workplace need to
satisfy themselves that the model risk assessment is
appropriate to their type of work; and
should adapt the model to the detail of their own actual
work situations, including any extension necessary to cover
hazards not referred to in the model.”
Model risk assessments do need to be personalised to suit
the situation.
L 235 Managing Risk Assessment for D&T
Examples of changed situations
Use of a drilling machine to drill a 12 mm dia. hole in thin
sheet metal compared to drilling a 4 mm dia. hole in 3 mm
thick acrylic.
The presence in a class of a pupil who has special
educational needs and who has support from a learning
support assistant.
L 254 Health and Safety Maintenance of D&T
Workshop Equipment
Designed to meet the needs of the inexperienced teacher or
technician who may be unsure as to what maintenance is
required for workshop equipment.
Some key messages
A regular maintenance programme should be established.
Maintenance that is carried out should be recorded.
People that do maintenance need to be suitably trained.
A risk assessment will normally be required before maintenance
work is done.
L 254 Health and Safety Maintenance of D&T
Workshop Equipment
Some issues related to maintenance
The person doing the job should have suitable qualifications
to do the work.
The integrity of the machine in respect of safety should not be
compromised if something goes wrong after maintenance.
A system of regular checking of equipment will help to
prevent accidents and breakdowns of equipment. Such a
system should be documented.
The Design and Technology Association needs to establish
training modules for maintenance of equipment.
PS 68 D&T class sizes, room sizes & safety
Designed to explain what the law does and does not say.
Provides guidance to teachers as to what action they can take
when asked to take an oversized class
Some key messages
Do a risk assessment. Use the guidelines in BS 4163.
Send a copy of the risk assessment to the head teacher, the
chair of governors, the local authority D&T adviser/inspector
and the local authority health and safety officer.
Head teachers are required by law to formally respond to such
risk assessments.
PS 68 D&T class sizes, room sizes & safety
The bottom line for teachers when asked to take an oversized
group -
NO!
A useful resource for H&S training
www.hse-databases.co.uk/prosecutions
The site lists the name of the employing body, the location
of the accident, the details of legislation contravened, and
the amount of the fine.
Questions
What should have been done to prevent the accident?
Who should have taken the action?
Who do you think had to pay the fine?
Two School Children died whilst on a teacher lead
activity called river walking. Failure to carry out a risk
assessment for river walking activities.
Total Fine £30,000 Total costs awarded to HSE £ 50,000
Failing to ensure H&S re: falls from height. Relates to
accident when an Arts technician fell from a ladder
(Approx. 3.5 – 4 metres)jn whilst working on lighting.
Total Fine £5,000 Total costs awarded to HSE £ 783
Failing to maintain basketball posts at school. School
child injured.
Total Fine £10,000 Total costs awarded to HSE £ 5,749
Pupil injured when her hand was drawn into gap
between work rest and rapidly rotating sanding disc
she was operating. Failure to have in place sufficiently
robust, positive checking of machinery prior to use by
pupils in a school workshop.
Total Fine £4,000
Total costs awarded to HSE £762
Pupil seriously injured at pedestal drill. Work pieces not
secured. No risk assessment
Total Fine £6,250
Total costs awarded to HSE £589
Prosecution under the Gas Safety Regulations and
Management Regulations following failure to maintain gas
appliances in school resulting in unsafe condition of
several appliances and an accident, and failure to remedy
matters after an accident. Lack of monitoring by LEA
resulted in a poor level of compliance with statutory
maintenance at other schools.
Total Fine £10,000
Total costs awarded to HSE £0.00
Thanks for listening
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