Factsheets
Our factsheets have been written for schools, ECE services and kōhanga reo to use.
Risk management (part 1) : Guidance on identifying hazards, and hazards and their potential harm.
Risk management (part 2) : Assessing and controlling risks, and reviewing control measures.
Risk management (part 3) : How to assess potential risks arising from work activities.
Tools and resources for schools
- Example policy/procedure: Risk management
- Example policy/procedure: Risk management - Word version
- Tool 12: Risk management checklist
- Tool 12: Risk management checklist - Word version
- Tool 13: Assessing risks
- Tool 14: Completing a hazard register
- Tool 15: Hazard Assessment Register - Word version
These resources have been developed through the Sector Reference Group and NZSTA.
Tools for early learning services
- Tool 5 - Risk register template - Word version
- Tool 6 - Hazard checklist template - Word version
- Tool 7 - Risk management checklist
Guidance
- Children's Action Plan and Vunerable Childrens Act 2014 Information *
- Fireworks and pyrotechnics for school productions
- Information about the Ministry's standards for preventing hazards presented by windows and door glazing at schools
- Behaviour support tools *
- Health conditions in education settings: Supporting children and young people with health conditions *
- Interventions: Guide for schools
- Preventing and responding to suicide
- Off-site practical - Work Experience
- Education Outside the Classroom (EOTC) and Outdoor Education
- Learning Experiences Outside The Classroom Provider Guide (2008)
- Poisonous plants on school property *
- Playground Safety *
- Cell phone towers and Wireless
Wirelesson school property - Alcohol on school sites
External Resources
- Worksafe Guidance: Risks in schools and ECE's
- Sport New Zealand: Safe sport for children
- Sport New Zealand: School Sport Planning Tool
- Skills Active Aotearoa: Sector Strategic Training Plan 2012-15
- Sport New Zealand: Outdoor Activities – Guidelines for Leaders (SPARC, 2005)
- Sport New Zealand: Managing sport - Safe sport for children
- Worksafe New Zealand: Hazard identification *
- Good Practice Principles for the Provision of Sport and Recreation for Young People
- Safe Sport for Children (child protection guidelines)
- Children's Action Plan and Vulnerable Children Act 2014 information
- WorkSafe's Adventure Activities
