Your go-to source of information on all things safety, health and wellbeing.
If any links are broken, or you can’t find what you want, please email [email protected].
A
- Accidents and Incidents
- Advisor – Nina Bickerton, Safety, Health and Wellbeing Advisor for Schools, [email protected].
- Aggression and violence / personal safety.
- Alcohol and drugs – HSE link
- Asbestos
- Asthma and allergies
- Auditing and inspections
B
- Back pain / manual handling
- Bio hazards – HSE link
- Bomb threats
- Business Continuity
C
- Catering (Food Standards agency) – also contact Vertas if they are your contracted caterers.
- Cleaning (HSE link) – also contact your contracted cleaners for specifics.
- CLEAPSS (Science, DT and Art)
- Competent person
- Computer workstation assessment / DSE assessments
- Confined spaces
- Contractors
- Coronavirus (C-19)
- CoSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health)
- Critical Incidents
D
- Dermatitis – HSE link
- Disability – HSE link
- Diseases (Infection Control)
- DSE (Display Screen Equipment)
- Diversity – HSE link
- Driving for work
- Drugs and alcohol – HSE link
- Dust – HSE link
E
- Educational Visits
- Electrical safety – HSE link
- Electrical equipment – visual checks
- Emergency evacuation procedures
- Equipment Work equipment and machinery – HSE link
- Ergonomics and Human Factors – HSE link
- Estates
- Event safety – HSE link
- EVOLVE
- Expectant mothers (risk assessment) / general information – HSE link
F
- Facilities management
- Falls and slips – HSE link
- Falls from height
- Fire safety
- First aid
- Food safety – Government website
G
- Guidance for Health and Safety policies
- Gas safety – HSE link
- Glass and glazing – HSE link
- Governors’ information
H
- Hazards
- Hazardous Substances – HSE link
- HSE (The Health and Safety Executive) – HSE link
- Health and Safety Advisor – Nina Bickerton, Safety, Health and Wellbeing Advisor for Schools, [email protected].
- Health and safety law leaflet or easy read version – HSE link
- Health and safety strategy
- Health and safety training
- Health surveillance – HSE link
- Health and wellbeing
- Home working – HSE link
- Human Resources – Schools’ Choice
I
- Incidents
- Infections – children – PHI and PHE information
- Infections at work – HSE link
- Injuries
- Inspections
- Insurance Policy (SCC maintained schools)
J
K
L
- Latex – HSE link
- Law leaflet (Health & Safety) – HSE link
- Lead (working with lead) – HSE link
- Leadership and responsibilities – HSE link
- Legislation – HSE link
- Legionella (water hygiene)
- LEV (local exhaust ventilation) – HSE link
- Lockdown
- LOLER (lifting operations and lifting equipment regulations) – HSE link
- Lone working
M
- Maintenance
- Managing health and safety
- Manual handling
- Maternity safety – HSE link and risk assessment
- Mental health
- MSD (musculoskeletal disorder) – HSE link
N
- National Security
- New mothers – HSE link
- Nine Term Plan (9TP)
- Noise – HSE link
O
- Occupational diseases – HSE link
- Occupational health
- Older workers – HSE link
- Outdoor working – HSE link and working in the cold and heat
P
- PAT (portable appliance testing)
- PE
- PEEP (Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan)
- Personal health
- Personal safety
- Physical Education
- Playgrounds and equipment
- Policies (Suffolk County Council and Schools)
- PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) – HSE link
- Pregnant and new mothers – HSE link
- Premises management
Q
R
- RAAC in school buildings – letter of 5 September 2023 to maintained schools
- RiDDOR (Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations)
- Risk assessment
- Road safety
S
- Safety alerts
- Safety Health and Wellbeing (SHaW) strategy – Suffolk County Council 2019-2022
- Safety Signs and Signals – HSE link
- Self-Audits (Schools’ SHaW Self-Audits)
- Skin and dermatitis – HSE link
- Slips, trips and falls – HSE link
- Smoking – HSE link
- Socket overload calculator
- Stress
- Supporting pupils at school with medical conditions
- Swimming pools
T
- Terror attack response
- Testing and inspection regimes
- Training
- Transport / Travel
- Tree safety maintenance – HSE link
U
V
- VDU (Visual Display Unit)
- Vertas – Vertas website
- Vibration – HSE link
- Violence and aggression
- Vulnerable workers – HSE link
W
- Waste – Suffolk County Council website
- Water hygiene (legionella)
- Weather
- Wellbeing
- Work equipment – HSE link
- Work experience – HSE link
- Working at height – HSE link
- Work related driving
- Workstation assessment
- WRULD (Work Related Upper Limb Disorder)
X
Y
- Young people at work – HSE link
Z
- Zoonoses – HSE link