Oxfordshire Work Experience Scheme Model Risk Assessment Form For

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Oxfordshire Work Experience Scheme
Model Risk Assessment Form for Students on Work Experience
The Management of Health and Safety of Work Regulations 1999 (as
amended) require employers to carry out a risk assessment for students
on work experience. You may use this form to assist compliance.
Completed forms/risk assessment information should be sent to a
parent/guardian* where appropriate [see reverse for details].
Student Details: to be completed by school/student
Student Name: School:
Parent/Guardian Name:
Home Address: Home Phone Number:
Is the student of compulsory school age? YES/NO [delete as
appropriate]
Risk Assessment: to be completed by the Employer/Placement Provider
Name of Employer/Placement Provider:
In carrying out this risk assessment consideration has been given to
the work experience student’s:
 inexperience lack of awareness immaturity
List of significant hazards to which the student may be
exposed during the placement:
 ‘Hazard’ means anything that can cause harm
Measures in place to eliminate or minimise risks #
associated with the hazard [e.g. induction, supervision,
training, provision of personal protective equipment]
 ‘Risk’ is the chance, great or small, that someone will be
harmed
I include details of risks notified to me by another employer [for
multi-site or where contractors are involved]: Included / Not
Applicable [delete as appropriate]
Signature Date
Name [print] Position
* Where a student is of compulsory school age, ‘relevant and
comprehensible’ information about risks to health and safety and the
control measures in place must be provided by the employer to the
student’s parent/guardian [see reverse for details].
Young people are prohibited from doing certain work if, after control
measures have been introduced, a significant risk remains.
Risk Assessment
In carrying out the risk assessment for a work experience student
placement the Employer must take account of:
*
the inexperience, lack of awareness and immaturity of the young
person
*
the fitting-out and layout of the workplace and workstation
*
the nature, degree and duration of exposure to physical,
biological and chemical agents
*
the form, range and use of work equipment and the way in which it
is handled
*
the organisation of processes and activities
*
the extent of their health and safety training provided or to be
provided to the young person
*
the risk from specific agents, processes and work listed in the
Annex to the European Directive (94/33/EC)[8]*
The outcomes of this risk assessment should be (a) recorded and a copy
kept [if 5 or more people are employed], (b) brought to the attention
of the work experience student and (c) brought to the attention of the
student’s parent/guardian where the student is of compulsory school
age.
Information for Parent/Guardian
The Employer shall, before providing a child with a work experience
placement, provide a parent/guardian of the child with comprehensible
and relevant information on:
a.
the risks to his health and safety identified by the assessment
b.
the preventative and protective measures
(c) the risks notified to the child’s employer by another employer
NB This means that for work experience students who are of compulsory
school age, the Employer must provide details of the risk assessment
to a parent/guardian of that child. HSE guidance for employers*
indicates that the information does not have to be in writing and that
employers may develop generic risk assessments for work experience
student activities
Protection of Young Persons
Every employer must protect young persons at work. In addition to
undertaking the risk assessment (see above), the employer must not
employ young persons for work which:
*
is beyond their physical or psychological capacity
*
involves exposure to agents which are toxic, carcinogenic, cause
heritable genetic damage or harm to the unborn child, or which in
any other way chronically affect human health
*
involves harmful exposure to radiation
*
involves a risk of accidents which it may reasonably be assumed
cannot be recognised or avoided owing to their insufficient
attention to safety or lack of experience or training
*
presents a risk to health from extreme cold or heat, noise or
vibration
NB. In determining whether work will involve harm or risk, regard will
be taken to the results of the risk assessment.
Nothing in the above paragraph shall prevent the employment of a young
person who is no longer a child [i.e. not of compulsory school age]
for work:
a.
where it is necessary for his training
b.
where the young person will be supervised by a competent person
c.
where any risk will be reduced to the lowest level that is
reasonably practicable
d.
except where prohibitions or restrictions on the employment of any
person already exist.
References
==========
Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 (as amended)
The Health & Safety (Training for Employment) Regulations 1990
* Young people at work - A guide for employers [Health & Safety
Executive HS(G) 165 2000].
Definitions
“parent/guardian” is given in the Children’s Act 1989
"young person" is one who has not attained the age of eighteen
"child" is one who is of compulsory school age
"compulsory school age” – a child is of compulsory school age until
the last Friday in June in the school year in which they reach age 16
For further information contact the Oxfordshire Work Experience Scheme
– 01235 547140 email:[email protected]
WES 7 - Young Persons RA 1 Employer’s Edition - produced by
Oxfordshire Work Experience Scheme - Revised April 2004