Incident Response templates

To define how the school assesses work-related accidents and incidents against applicable RIDDOR reporting requirements, records the decision, assigns responsibility and submits a report where the applicable criteria are met.

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To help maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England identify potentially reportable work-related incidents, determine whether RIDDOR applies, assign reporting responsibility, submit notifications where required, and keep records of reporting decisions and relevant incidents.

25 sections · v1

To define how an asbestos incident that may have resulted in the release of asbestos fibres is assessed against RIDDOR reporting conditions, escalated for advice where necessary, reported to HSE where applicable and recorded.

11 sections · v1

To provide a clear framework for responding to incidents during educational visits away from school and for managing routine communications, regular check-ins and calls to reassure people. It is for trip leaders, visit staff, the school and relevant families when an educational visit takes place away from school.

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To set out how {{school_name}} will determine, provide and communicate first-aid equipment, facilities, appointed-person or first-aider responsibilities, availability, absence cover, emergency-service contact and alternative arrangements for working and school activity periods.

29 sections · v1

To provide a procedure for use by maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England to control access to school premises and to make, communicate and manage decisions to bar individuals where appropriate.

19 sections · v1

To help maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England organise responsibility for RIDDOR reporting, assess whether a work-related incident may be reportable, provide a route for raising concerns, and record the basis of the decision. Applicability, the responsible person and the applicable RIDDOR criteria must be confirmed against the Regulations and current HSE material.

24 sections · v1

To help maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England prepare and submit RIDDOR notifications, retain submission evidence, link notifications to incident records, and review or amend notifications when relevant incident facts change.

20 sections · v1

This procedure supports maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England when preparing and submitting a RIDDOR notification for an incident that is reportable under the applicable criteria. It covers access to the relevant online form, answering submission questions, amending a notification where necessary, and linking the submission to the underlying incident record.

20 sections · v1

To provide a procedure for assessing whether an accident or incident may fall within applicable RIDDOR reporting requirements, assigning responsibility, preparing a submission where required, and retaining the decision and submission evidence.

22 sections · v1

To provide a framework for a maintained or academy primary or secondary school in England to plan for and respond to school-security and health-and-safety incidents, with scenarios selected to reflect the school's activities, premises and local risks.

27 sections · v1

To guide a maintained or academy primary or secondary school in England, where it is the responsible employer, when a child in its care suffers a serious accident, serious injury or death, including notification to the relevant local child protection agencies and action on advice received.

13 sections · v1

To support applicable maintained and academy schools in England that are registered early years providers for the relevant provision to identify serious accidents, illness, injury or death involving a child in their care, record the action taken, and notify the appropriate regulator within the applicable deadline.

12 sections · v1

To provide emergency actions for a maintained or academy primary or secondary school in England with a natural-gas or LPG installation when a gas leak is suspected.

9 sections · v1

Serious Classroom Incident Reporting Procedure

To help staff in applicable schools bring serious classroom incidents to the attention of their employer straight away.

5 sections · v1