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Health and safety oversight

Use our guidance and checklist to learn how governing boards ensure that pupils and employees are not put at unnecessary risk while at school.

Guidance
26/05/2022

Day to day responsibility for health and safety lies with school/trust leaders and staff. This includes operational activity such as health and safety inspections of school premises.

All schools must have a health and safety policy in place. Department for Education (DfE) non-statutory health and safety guidance sets out what the policy should contain.

The governing board’s oversight of health and safety is at a strategic level.

This page covers:

  • what health and safety oversight means in practice
  • a health and safety monitoring checklist

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