Classroom Safety

Teaching Health and Safety in the Classroom

We have a massive variety of different resources above all based on health and safety in the classroom! There are posters to promote classroom safety and make children aware of the potential risks and we also have safety display signs that you could use in the classroom too. Why not try using display posters on electrical safety, or perhaps yellow display signs for classroom safety? It's important that you make children aware of health and safety in the classroom in their day-to-day lives so that they can stay safe and keep their peers safe too.

Why is classroom safety so important?

There are so many common hazards in the classroom that can easily affect classroom safety. Everything from class sizes to classroom furniture should be seen as a potential source of harm when looking into classroom risk assessment and classroom health and safety. Certain classrooms have different levels of risk, you'd have different rules of safety for a sports hall compared to a classroom. It's very important to minimise risk, and everyone in the classroom contributes to doing so. Our resources are brilliant at getting your pupils involved and teaching them key points about classroom safety. All sorts of accidents can happen in the classroom; it's a given. What's important is making that number of incidents as low as possible with preemptive action on classroom safety. Make health and safety a priority in your classroom with these resources.

How can I make my classroom safe?

Children often fall or trip over things, and it accounts for a large portion of injuries in the classroom. Simple actions can help prevent these incidents from even happening in the first place and promote health and safety in the classroom.

• Make sure that there's enough space for your pupils to move around without tripping over
• Make your pupils wary of where they leave their items or chairs
• Make sure cables from electronics are not a trip hazard, especially when multiple devices are being used in a busy classroom!
• Look at the issue under the lens of health and safety. This includes identifying any potential hazards, understanding their potential risk and taking action to either eliminate the hazard or control the risk of the hazard.

Every school should have its own health and safety policy, and you can ask your pupil's school if you'd like to read it. All of this is looked at by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) within the UK.