Training
Whether you are looking for the introduction of a formal training programme or to supplement the team by enhancing core skills, we at Environ Safety Management Ltd can through our formal approved and accredited courses offer the development of your staff which will ensure a comprehensive understanding, fulfilment and compliance of the stringent legislative requirements.
Below is a list of our courses relevant to the education market.
Consultancy Service
- Fire risk assessments
- Disabled access assessments
- Risk assessment writing
- COSHH assessment writing
- Asbestos Surveys
- Statutory Safety documentation development
- Working at height
- Managing Manual Handling
- Violence in the Workplace
- Moving Goods Safely
- CDM Compliance & controlling contractors
- CDM Coordination
The primary focuses of Environ Safety Management Ltd training is protecting your staff, members of the public and children, and is to prevent injuries and ill health to those who could be injured if they entered an area unfamiliar to them or if they undertake tasks that fall outside of their competency.
The safe interface requires the co-ordination, perception or risk, and an understanding that the actions of others may be at odds with the actions of a reasonable person.
Case Studies
Foundation school body fined after student loses six fingers and both thumbs in art class.
A foundation school's governing body has been fined £16,500 for breaches of health and safety law after a pupil's hands were severely damaged by plaster of Paris. The Governing Body of the Giles School of Church End, Old Leake, Boston, Lincolnshire, was fined £16,500 and ordered to pay £2,500 costs at Boston Magistrates Court. They pleaded guilty to breaching both section 3 (1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and regulation 3 (1) (c) of the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995.
On January 31, 2007 during a regular A-Level Art and Design Class, a 16-year-old girl decided to make a cast of her own hands using plaster of Paris. Noting that a pupil had done something similar a few weeks beforehand, she sought advice from her teacher as to how to do this.
Unaware of the chemical reaction causing extreme heat which occurs when plaster of Paris is mixed with water, the student placed her hands directly in the substance in order to make the cast. It fast began to set and she realised her hands were stuck. Fellow pupils and the classroom teacher tried to help but to no avail and an ambulance was called.
Council fined after school caretaker exposed to asbestos
North Tyneside Council today pleaded guilty to five breaches of the Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations 2002. It was fined £17,005 and ordered to pay £3,911 costs at North Tyneside Magistrates’ Court.
"North Tyneside Council was found to have breached the regulations in March 2006, at Wallsend Jubilee Primary School in Mullen Road, which is owned by the council. The school caretaker swept the school boiler house on two separate occasions, unaware that it was contaminated with asbestos. This posed a huge risk to the caretaker’s health: every year, 4000 people die of work-related asbestos diseases, more than are killed on the roads.
Norfolk activity centre prosecuted following school trip incident Kingswood Learning and Leisure (Group) Limited of Alkmaar Way in Norwich, was fined £12,000 with £10,690 costs at Cromer Magistrates Court today (Aug 15), after pleading guilty to breaching section 3(1) of the Health & Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.
The prosecution follows a HSE investigation into an incident on 28 April 2007, when eight-year-old Mickey Carter-Browne, from Silsoe, was injured during a school trip to the Kingswood Activity Centre at West Runton. He fell six metres from a climbing wall, sustaining a broken ankle and bruising to his pelvis, upper leg, left ankle and arms.
