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Provide the school with a conditional framework for identifying lifting equipment, planning safe lifting operations, arranging thorough examination and examination schemes, responding to defects, and maintaining relevant records where the school controls, plans, or uses lifting equipment.

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Record the identity of lifting equipment, the date and outcome of a thorough examination, identified defects, immediate restrictions, notifications, and remedial-action status where the school uses or controls lifting equipment subject to thorough examination.

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Reusable unscored risk register for assessing mobile work equipment risks in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England, where the school provides relevant equipment.

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Record checks made before new work equipment is put into use, including conformity marking, manufacturer details, Declaration of Conformity, English instructions, obvious defects and corrective action or rejection.

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Ordinary Classroom Health and Safety Checklist

Optional identification of health and safety concerns in ordinary classroom settings, with recording of concerns, owners and actions. Use only for maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England that choose to use it; exclude specialist classrooms, laboratories, art, IT, design and technology, drama and sports facilities.

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Record, where applicable, competent-person examinations of power presses used for working on cold metal, including examination dates, safeguard inspections and tests, defects, restrictions, remedial actions and completion details.

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Record inspections of asbestos-containing or presumed asbestos-containing materials where they remain in school buildings, including location, condition, damage or deterioration, immediate controls, escalation and follow-up actions. Inspection frequency is to be set by the school's management arrangements and the material risks.

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Support a proportionate operational inspection of school premises, plant, access routes, workplace fabric and external areas, with recording of hazards, responsible persons, immediate controls, remedial actions and close-out evidence.

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Reusable, unscored risk register for identifying, managing, recording and reviewing hazards in school grounds and external areas that pupils, staff or visitors may access.

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Reusable unscored register for identifying, managing, reviewing and recording arrangements for hazards in school grounds and external areas that may be accessible to pupils, staff or visitors.

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Reusable, unscored risk register for identifying lifting equipment and lifting operations at a maintained or academy school in England, and for recording existing and proposed controls relating to strength, stability, positioning, installation, operation, examination, inspection, defects and information keeping. Applicability remains conditional until supported by site evidence.

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Reusable, unscored register for identifying whether lifting equipment or lifting operations are provided, controlled or used by a maintained or academy school in England, and for recording existing and proposed controls without assuming that equipment or operations are present.

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To control the withdrawal of lifting equipment or accessories from use when an examination or inspection identifies a defect that is or could become a danger to people, track any remedy deadline stated in the report, arrange the remedy, and control return to use or disposal.

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To provide a clear process for preventing further use of lifting equipment or accessories when an examination or inspection identifies a defect that is or could become a danger to people, and for managing the defect through remedy and any applicable return-to-use process.

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Check that applicable lifting equipment and accessories are identified, within safe working limits, appropriately marked, certified and not overdue for examination; record examination reports, declarations of conformity, test certificates, defects and removal-from-use decisions.

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Provide schools with controlled arrangements for retaining, accessing and producing thorough-examination, inspection and conformity records where the school has or controls lifting equipment or lifting accessories.

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Record the presence and identification of lifting equipment, its condition, examination or inspection scope, competent person, findings, defects, restrictions, corrective actions and next steps.

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Operational checklist for examining lifting equipment identification and markings, positioning, installation condition, visible defects and inspection status, with actions for missing, illegible or incorrect markings and unsafe equipment. Use only where lifting equipment is present and adapt the checks to the equipment and competent-person arrangements.

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To provide an administrative procedure for schools that control, plan or use lifting equipment subject to thorough examination, covering responsibility, lifting-operation planning, examination arrangements, record keeping and defect reporting.

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Record operational checks of lifting equipment and accessories before use. Adapt the checks to the equipment and do not use this checklist as a replacement for a LOLER thorough examination.

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Maintain a controlled register of lifting equipment and lifting accessories, including thorough-examination and inspection records and, where held, Declarations of Conformity, with controls for retention, access, written copies and protection against unauthorised alteration.

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To record lifting equipment identity and markings, examination and inspection information, defect notifications, restrictions, repairs, corrective actions, and the controlled location of retained information where applicable.

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A controlled record for schools in England to document lifting-equipment identity, examination and inspection reports, competent persons or contractors, defects, corrective actions, maintenance or repairs, and record-retention arrangements where the school manages lifting equipment or associated reports and defect information.

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Schedule and assurance checklist for arranging and recording thorough examinations of equipment used to lift loads, including competent-person reports, next-due dates, defect actions and additional examination triggers.

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Schedule and assurance checklist for arranging and recording LOLER thorough examinations of equipment used to lift people and lifting accessories, including competent-person reports, next-due dates, defect actions and additional examination triggers.

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To support a school when it arranges or commissions a LOLER thorough examination of lifting equipment or accessories by ensuring that the proposed examiner has appropriate knowledge and experience, is sufficiently independent and impartial, and does not assess their own routine maintenance work.

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Controlled record for each LOLER thorough-examination report, including examination dates, defects, Schedule 1 information, serious-defect escalation and relevant enforcing-authority submissions.

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This procedure supports maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England where the school provides, hires, controls or uses lifting equipment or carries out lifting operations. It sets out how to identify lifting equipment and accessories, plan and supervise lifting operations, appoint competent and sufficiently independent examiners, control installation and relocation, verify safe-working-load information, arrange thorough examinations, retain reports and respond to defects and event-triggered examination requirements.

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Reusable, unscored register for identifying hazards, recording existing controls and documenting proposed controls for lifting equipment and lifting operations in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England. Use only where the school provides, controls, hires or uses lifting equipment or carries out lifting operations.

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Reusable, unscored risk register for assessing lifting operations, equipment and accessories, load limits, attachment and securing methods, ground and environmental conditions, competence, supervision, exclusion zones, and risks from moving equipment or falling loads. Apply conditionally where a school undertakes, arranges or controls lifting operations involving hoists, lifts, cranes, fork lifts, telehandlers, lifting accessories or similar equipment.

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To help a maintained or academy primary or secondary school in England organise and control lifting operations where the school carries out or arranges lifting operations using lifting equipment.

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To provide a consistent arrangement for organising and controlling lifting operations where lifting equipment is used at the school, taking account of the equipment, operation, workplace and people involved.

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Record each LOLER thorough examination, the required report information, dangerous or potentially dangerous defects, escalation, enforcing-authority notification, equipment-use restrictions and remedial-action status.

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Reusable, unscored risk register for risks arising from school-provided or school-controlled mobile work equipment. Use only where applicable, including grounds, estate or maintenance machinery, equipment carrying people, or self-propelled equipment. Record existing controls separately from proposed controls and do not assume that any control is in place unless verified.

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Record pre-use acceptance checks for newly acquired or installed machinery and other work equipment in maintained and academy primary or secondary schools in England.

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Inspect and record the condition, suitability, defects, withdrawal and maintenance actions for pallets, skips, ladles and similar items that are carried as loads rather than permanently attached lifting equipment.

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To provide a procedure for arranging and recording the examination of power presses and the inspection and testing of their guards and protection devices where a school provides or uses power presses for working on cold metal.

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Reusable unscored risk register for assessing risks from power presses used for working on cold metal in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England. Use only where site evidence confirms that the equipment is a power press used for working on cold metal; ordinary school machinery must not be treated as a power press without supporting site evidence.

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Inspect school corridors, stairs, passageways, external paths and applicable safety-critical glazing; record condition issues, obstructions, markings, protection, ownership, immediate controls and close-out evidence.

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Support proportionate inspections of premises-related hazards by recording the inspection scope, responsible persons, findings, remedial actions and close-out.

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Provide a reusable, unscored register for identifying and assessing breakage and impact risks affecting windows and transparent or translucent surfaces in walls, partitions, doors and gates, and for recording existing and proposed controls.

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To provide a procedure for maintaining safe work equipment and responding to deterioration, defects or dangerous conditions at maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England where work equipment, powered gates, barriers or doors are used or controlled.

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To provide a consistent procedure for identifying work equipment that a school owns, operates or controls, including equipment supplied by another party, assigning responsibilities, recording applicable PUWER arrangements, and retaining relevant conformity documentation where new machinery is placed on the Great Britain market for the school.

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Record work-equipment identity, maintenance and inspection arrangements, findings, defects, isolation or removal from use, corrective actions and verification before equipment is returned to service.

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To support the selection and provision of suitable work equipment and the checking of relevant conformity information before new equipment is put into use.

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Reusable, unscored register for assessing the suitability of work equipment for its intended use, workplace conditions and users; identifying equipment-specific hazards, restrictions and controls; and recording further actions for equipment owned, hired, supplied or controlled by the school. Use for school employees who use work equipment and preserve conditional applicability where equipment is supplied by another party or new machinery is placed on the Great Britain market.

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Reusable, unscored risk register for identifying work-at-height activities undertaken by school employees, the locations and tasks where a person could fall, people exposed, existing controls, proposed controls, safe-working arrangements, competence requirements, restrictions and actions needed to prevent falls. Complete and adapt it to the actual activities and premises before use.

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Record pre-use and periodic checks of work-at-height equipment and scaffolding arrangements, including defect controls and competence confirmation where scaffolding is erected or used.

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Reusable, unscored risk register for identifying work-at-height activities undertaken by employees and defining proportionate arrangements for preventing falls, including arrangements for safe working, competence and supervision. Use only where employees undertake work at height at or for the school.

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To provide conditional safe-working arrangements for employees undertaking work at height at a maintained or academy primary or secondary school in England, adapted to the school’s actual activities and premises.

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Record lifting-equipment identities, thorough-examination dates and results, examination defects, responsible recipients, notifications to owners or lessors, and reports to the relevant enforcing authority where required.

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To help maintained and academy schools in England select or provide work equipment by considering its intended purpose, workplace conditions and health and safety risks, and to restrict equipment to suitable uses through local instructions and controls.

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