Does anyone have a library risk assesments I can steal please?

[navyeyelasH]

Just going over my risk assessments for outings and realised I don't have a library one. My brain has gone mushy and I can't think of any non obvious risks, can I nab someone else's please?

my email is [email protected]

TIA!

also do you reckon I need a general walking one ?

have emailed you x x x

Brilliant BALD, we even sue the same headings!

what have I forgotten I have:

Parks general and parks specific
farms
zoo
toddler groups
car
(will do) walking
School run
inside the house / garden
Treasure Basket (not doing any other toys/activities)
Library (thanks!)
Shops

We don't really go to others people's houses. But I have this feeling there is more than this!

going to the shops

soft play

non-specifically designed play (treasure basket, marzipan modelling, beading, cooking, building a natural shelter so far)

um um

cafe

snow play

I lumped soft play and toddler groups together more or less, going to shops & cafes of course! Cooking too, bugger. Good thinking about den making.

ARGH just as I think I'm nearly done I get a load more to write.

Using public / private transport
Public Toilets
Swimming

good grief...... this shows me how inadequate my paperwork is!!!!!!!!

Apologies if this is teaching grandma to suck eggs, but I've seen some otherwise sensible people fall into this trap!

You should do a quick site visit a few days before too, especially if it's been a while since you've been. There might be new things there or you might spot a hazard you didn't before. Just keep telling yourself, if anything (god forbid) happened, the first thing the authorities will ask for is your paperwork.

NEL have emailed you again matey x x x

my email is [email protected] can anyon share one of their risk assesments im newly started and havnt done any :O argh!

Hayley (or anyone who hasn't done one) you need a piece of paper for each thing, e.g. inside, outside, walking on the road, visiting shop etc.
Title and date of risk assessment on each one.
Each piece of paper has four columns: 1 - Hazard. (e.g. risk of injury from traffic.) 2 - High, medium or low risk (put one). 3. People at risk (e.g. children, adults). 4. Control measures. Here put what you will do to make them as safe as possible.

You must go around the area you are assessing and assess the risk yourself. If you have not done it yourself you may as well not bother even having a piece of paper. I'd be concerned about leaving my child with anyone who hasn't done their own risk assessments.

I'm a little concerned (at work too, not just here) that some people think it's a case of printing out a sheet that someone else has done.

If you contact the local health and safety at work people, they'll teach you how to do a risk assessment. It's easy when you get the hang of it.

Apologies if this doesn't apply to you!

can any one send me a copy of a risjk assessment im at aloss, newbie argh

thanks in advance

my emial is hayley.mortimer @hotmail.co.uk

ill love you forever :P

Emailed you.

Brill thanks BALD!

shaz10, I understand your point but so long as you understand why you need a risk assessment and modify anything anyone shares then it's a win win situation. The problem comes when as you say people just print of a sheet and consider it 'done' with no understanding. Hopefully these are the people that Ofsted weed out!

9/10 the risks in any library and any walking situation are the same.

ive done one for in the house and my garden very long thorough one but as ive only has an afer scooly not done any others yet but will be having a 7month old so thought i should get started

Don't forget for toys and things kids can help do risk assesments

Shaz10,my inadequate paperwork came to light during the holidays. A particularly protective mum asked me not to let her 6 and a half year old DS run ahead of me when we went on a walk in the forest (even though he was always within sight of me and always stopped when I called him AND my 5 yr old DS was with him).

If I had done my bl**dy risk assessment, I could have taken it out and shown her and then reassured her (reassured being a gentle turn of phrase) that running a little way ahead would be as safe as houses. I could not catch the child from falling if he had been walking next to me in any event, so running (not recklessly at all!!) ahead of me would have been just as reasonable imo.

I am now updating my RAs.