These documents are supplementary to the ChYPS Manual of guidance; in most cases they have been issued to clarify or address certain health and safety issues that arise from time to time.
- Online Manual of Guidance Notes
- Insurance - Employers liability certificate
- Food Allergies: Health and Safety Responsibilities & Action
- Employee Healthcare
- Emergency Planning
- Interactive Whiteboards - Health and Safety Advice
- Violence
- Fire Safety in Schools
- Health Visitors teams bases
- ASBESTOS
- Kirklees Autism Outreach Team
- Legionella
This information explains the LEA's arrangements to meet legal obligations to control legionella, including water quality monitoring and provision of risk assessment documentation to schools. - Windows - risks from
There have been several accidents in recent years when pedestrians, usually children, have been injured when colliding with open windows as they walk or run along pathways or play areas next to buildings. The collisions usually result in quite serious head injuries. Advice about this and other aspects of window safety in this document.
22 April 2005 - Wood working - High risk machinery
There is a legal requirement to ensure that certain types of high risk woodwork machines have run down times of 10 seconds or less where there is a risk of contact with the machine while it runs down.
01 September 2004 - Health
and Safety Information File (S&SS/58/02)
A file in which to keep evidence ofthe management of health & safety including essential maintenance together with an explanation of its use is attached.
15 November 2002 - Glazing
accidents involving Georgian wired glass.
Recent serious accidents in Kirklees Schools where pupils were injured by broken
glass after they had kicked or pushed doors along corridors, which were glazed with Georgian wired glass, have highlighted the need for schools to review their existing glazing risk assessments.
01 November 2002