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MelissaFW  
#1 Posted : 17 July 2017 12:27:14(UTC)
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MelissaFW

I am looking to potentially visit schools to carry out health and safety talks based on the work the business carries out as public safety is a key aspect of what we do. 

Does anyone have experience of this, what kind of things would you have in place? I assume a CRB check would be required. Has anything you did gone down really well, any lead balloons? 

Hsquared14  
#2 Posted : 17 July 2017 12:44:06(UTC)
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Hsquared14

What age group are you aiming at?  You may not need a CRB check if you are not going to be interacting with children on a one to one basis and if you will be supervised at all times when on the premises.  For younger ones keep it practical, I once asked a group of 5 to 10 year olds what the biggest risk to their safety at school was and they knew exactly what caused accidents in the playground but I doubt that trying to explain risk assessment to them would have worked!  Also remember that they are not little adults, they don't generally have a sense of what is safe and what is dangerous in built in them and this is particularly the case with teenagers hence all those videos of them on Youtube having spectacular accidents that would probably kill an adult but which they seem to laugh off.  Try to find something they can relate to - teenagers do not react well to scare stories or being told that something is dangerous.  Good Luck!!

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Invictus  
#3 Posted : 17 July 2017 13:06:56(UTC)
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Invictus

you will need a CRB or as they are known now DBS if you are working with children it doesn't matter if you are not working on a one to one basis you are in contact with them and therefore one id required.

JayPownall  
#4 Posted : 17 July 2017 13:25:00(UTC)
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JayPownall

Melissa - I'll PM you later today with some info! Jamie

biker1  
#5 Posted : 17 July 2017 13:42:42(UTC)
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biker1

I did a training session at the school where I was a parent governor some years ago, for students who were about to go out on work experience. I decided that rather than boring the pants off them with slides, I'd find something they could relate to. I found a video called No Going Back, which was about a singer with a band who had a nasty accident on some stairs. All was going well until the moment of the accident, where she tumbled down the stairs, when I could hear an audible gasp from the children. I concluded that I had probably traumatised them, and wouldn't be asked to do another session.

Zyggy  
#6 Posted : 17 July 2017 13:44:59(UTC)
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Zyggy

Just because you may be working in the vicinity of children does not mean that you need to be DBS or enhanced DBS checked.

It all depends on whether your work is classed as a "regulated activity" & all schools will carry out their own assessment of the nature of the involvement.

One school I worked for insisted that I was always escorted around the school, even going to the staff toilet; others were less stringent.

For the record I am enhanced DBS checked for my role in another organisation, so it's a case of horses for courses & individual "risk assessments"

Invictus  
#7 Posted : 18 July 2017 06:45:33(UTC)
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Invictus

On the basis the poster says "visit schools" I think you will find that they need DBS most schools now will not allow people working with young people in without a DBS even if they are supervised It's like referees all referees need to be DBS checked and they are standing in the middle of a field with parents watching.

Once you are seen regularly you become a figure of trust .

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