Risk assessments for excursions, camps and school events
How a school uses risk assessments: a teacher drafts one for an excursion, camp or event from the template, and a school admin approves it.
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Applies to: Planning · School admin, School staff · Schools
At a school, risk assessments cover excursions, camps, events and activities. They work the same way as for everyone else; this is the usual way schools use them.
- Step 1: A teacher opens Planning → Risk assessments and starts one from the outing or trip template (or the event template), with the name and the dates.
- Step 2: They describe the excursion (what, where, when and who), check each hazard and control in the template, and change them for the venue, the students and the activities.
- Step 3: They choose Save and send for review.
- Step 4: A school admin reads it, chooses the review date and approves it, or sends it back with what to change.
- Staff can draft but never approve. The approved version can't change, and its PDF can go with the excursion paperwork.
- Use the same assessment again next year by updating it: the change is a draft of the next version.
Templates are general starting points, not legal advice or your department's own guidance. Check them against the policies your school follows.