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Help school staff assess whether first-aid provision intended to cover pupils, visitors or other non-employees may require additional training, including paediatric first aid, and prepare to discuss the school's specific needs with a training provider.

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Explain why designated first aiders in UK primary and secondary schools should undertake annual refresher training and how this supports the maintenance of basic first-aid skills and awareness of changes in procedures.

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Help qualified workplace first-aiders in schools understand why annual refresher training is strongly recommended and distinguish that recommendation from a mandatory requirement.

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Define the appointed person's responsibility for first-aid equipment, facilities and summoning emergency services, and set out arrangements for availability whenever people are at work.

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Guide maintained and academy schools in England when considering or providing an automated external defibrillator as part of their first-aid equipment.

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To provide clear information about the use of an automated external defibrillator (AED), where the school has chosen to provide one following its needs assessment, and to explain how that information is made available to relevant users and connected with the school’s first-aid arrangements.

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To record the additional medical accommodation, facilities and access arrangements needed for pupils with complex medical or care needs, where this plan applies.

16 sections · v1

Check that an accessible first-aid box is always available in the early years setting and contains materials appropriate for use with children.

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Help identified staff in English primary and secondary schools understand the boundaries of general first-aid support and the administration of specified emergency prescription medication, and recognise the importance of following the pupil’s individual healthcare plan and authorised arrangements.

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To maintain first-aid availability without delay at all times by planning cover for absence of a first aider or appointed person and reflecting alternative work practices in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England.

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Check the availability and suitability of accommodation for medical examination and treatment, short-term care of sick or injured pupils, and first-aid provision where identified by the first-aid needs assessment.

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Inspect each applicable first-aid container, identify missing, used or expired items, and record restocking and safe disposal actions.

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Reusable, unscored risk register for assessing the quantity, location, accessibility, labelling and suitability of first-aid materials, equipment and facilities needed for the school population, sites, activities and identified risks. Apply to maintained and academy schools in England according to the school's first-aid needs and the people and activities it supports.

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Provide a reusable, unscored register for considering first-aid needs arising from pupils, students, visitors and other non-employees, including staffing, equipment, training and incident arrangements. Complete and adapt it to the school's activities, population and circumstances where applicable.

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To provide an arrangement for reconsidering first-aid needs and provision after major changes affecting first-aid arrangements in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England.

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To support maintained and academy schools in England that manage pupil medication or provide emergency medication support by keeping medication separate from first-aid containers, defining the limited assistance first aiders may provide, identifying emergency medication arrangements in individual healthcare plans, and restricting administration of specified prescription-only medication to trained people.

17 sections · v1

Help staff in school EYFS settings understand when paediatric first-aid training should be renewed and how a first-aid needs assessment helps maintain adequate emergency coverage.

2 lessons · v1

Record the individual arrangements required to manage a pupil’s allergy, including triggers, prescribed emergency medication, prevention and response instructions, responsible staff, communication arrangements and review information.

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To help maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England decide how to use and adapt example allergy safety policy and Individual Healthcare Plan templates when developing their own documents, including arrangements for local record keeping and training around adrenaline auto-injectors.

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To record the appointment and arrangements for the person responsible for taking charge of first-aid arrangements where the school's first-aid-needs assessment indicates that a first-aider is unnecessary.

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To help maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England consider, purchase and position an automated external defibrillator (AED) as part of their first-aid equipment where the school chooses to provide one, subject to local first-aid needs, risk assessment and resources.

16 sections · v1

To help school staff understand when fuller AED user training may be considered, how it differs from written AED operating instructions, and why a school may choose to provide it.

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To provide a clear method for communicating first-aid arrangements, including the first-aid policy, equipment and facility locations, first-aider or appointed-person contacts, urgent contact arrangements, and procedures for monitoring and reviewing first-aid needs, subject to each school's actual arrangements and sites.

16 sections · v1

To define how a maintained or academy school in England determines and communicates its first-aid equipment, facilities and personnel arrangements.

23 sections · v1

To communicate first-aid arrangements to staff, pupils, students and parents or carers at maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England, where applicable.

13 sections · v1

Check first-aid containers and other provision identified by the school's first-aid needs assessment for quantity, accessibility, labelling, marking, stock condition, expiry, restocking and safe disposal.

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Check first-aid boxes and supplies for accessibility, suitability, stock levels, expiry, fitness for purpose, medicines, replenishment and disposal, with contents based on the school's first-aid needs assessment.

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Check first-aid boxes, supplies, expiry dates, signage, eye-irrigation provision where applicable, and first-aid-room arrangements against the school's first-aid-needs assessment.

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Reusable unscored register for assessing workplace and workforce hazards, organisation size, staffing, premises, activities, mobile or off-site work and foreseeable attendance to determine first-aider numbers, appointed-person arrangements, facilities, equipment, training and information needs.

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Reusable, unscored register for assessing first-aid needs and recording existing and proposed controls for staff, pupils, students, visitors and others in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England.

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Reusable unscored register for assessing first-aid needs at a maintained or academy primary or secondary school workplace in England. Complete with site-specific information and revisit when workplace, workforce or risk circumstances change.

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Reusable, unscored risk register for assessing first-aid needs and recording decisions about first-aid personnel, equipment and facilities in primary and secondary schools in England, including whether a first-aid room is required and whether provision for non-employees should be considered.

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Record the findings and rationale of a school's first-aid needs assessment, including decisions about equipment, facilities, personnel and any first-aid room, where the school chooses to document the assessment outcome.

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To guide a school where its first-aid needs assessment identifies that a suitable first-aid room is required, including its designation, access, cleanliness, availability and physical conditions.

14 sections · v1

Operationally check the suitability and readiness of a first-aid room where the school's first-aid needs assessment identifies that one is required.

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Help school staff understand how a first-aid needs assessment informs the appropriate level and mix of workplace first-aid training and the planning of sufficient first-aid coverage.

2 lessons · v1

To provide notice content for display where a school has a first-aid room and first-aiders.

6 sections · v1

To record the occupational-health needs considered, the competent occupational health professional who provided input, the competence basis for that professional, the advice or scheme-design input received, and the resulting health surveillance arrangements for a maintained or academy primary or secondary school in England establishing a health surveillance scheme.

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Record health-surveillance feedback, worker-raised concerns, further preventive actions, responsible owners, completion status and any resulting reinforcement of training or education.

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To guide schools that operate health-surveillance schemes in reviewing outputs for further preventive action, enabling workers to raise concerns about work-related health effects, and reinforcing relevant training and education.

10 sections · v1

Reusable unscored risk register for assessing hot-water temperatures at points of use, identifying people and locations at risk, recording existing controls separately from proposed controls, and documenting corrective actions needed to prevent scalding.

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Inspect medical and first-aid accommodation for suitability, availability, washbasin provision, proximity to a toilet, appropriateness for examination and short-term care, and whether the room is used for teaching.

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To define the separation of medication from first-aid containers, the limits of first-aider assistance, arrangements for pupils who carry or need their own medication, the role of individual healthcare plans, and the trained-person requirement for administration of specified prescription-only medication where applicable.

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To set out how the school uses its first-aid needs assessment to determine provision for employees who travel, work remotely or work elsewhere, including personal first-aid boxes, communication equipment and arrangements for contacting emergency services.

16 sections · v1

Guide a school that is establishing a health-surveillance scheme in obtaining and incorporating input from a competent occupational-health professional.

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Record the identity and competence basis of the occupational-health professional involved, their advice or scheme-design input, the date and scope of that input, and the resulting health-surveillance arrangements. Use this record conditionally when a school establishes or revises a health-surveillance scheme and obtains input from a competent occupational-health professional.

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To help staff in maintained and academy schools in England with EYFS provision understand when paediatric first-aid requirements apply, how to check availability and certificate arrangements, and how to control renewal and relevance of training. This is awareness material and does not provide first-aid treatment training or certify competence.

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To help school staff understand when additional training may be relevant for the emergency administration of Schedule 19 prescription-only medication, and how this differs from the general administration of prescription-only medication.

1 lesson · v1