Injured while pregnant

[CosyUser]

I work mostly at one school (where a risk assessment is done ) but I sometimes teach at a different school which doesn’t have a risk assessment done
yesterday I was barged into by two students (age 14.15) and squashed against a door
I was winded and was in pain with reduced movement
I went to the hospital and baby is fine but the pain I already had has been made much worse
it’s also made me anxious to be around pupils and people
an I wrong to ask not to go back ?

You should have a maternity risk assessment done for all environments in which you work.

Of course she can! No one is going to force her to go back.

I worked in a nursery, when I was around 6 months pregnant I was walking down a corridor behind another woman she turned abruptly and knocked me flying (she was very large) I’m still not sure how she didn’t hear me , why she turned so quickly or why she didn’t try to steady me. I landed with a massive bump but everything was fine. Do you have a risk assessment for work? It prompted my work to do one. You can’t not go to work but you could ask that adjustments are put in place. Is there a way you could avoid being n the corridor at peak times. ?

You legally should have had a risk assessment done there as well.

I would email HR/Headteacher and summarise what happened already. Then request to meet to do the risk assessment there.

You can put on there things like risk of busy corridors or break duties etc… and then you have to mitigate that. For example, I swapped break duties to one in an open space, rather than a corridor whilst pregnant. Other examples are only working in one classroom, so you’re not in the hustle and bustle of lesson change over or having someone cover the last few minutes of your lessons and going to your next place before the kids get let out.