Countryside Education Trust SITE RISK ASSESSMENT

SITE / COB COTTAGE, HARTFORD WOOD / REF NO.

DEPARTMENT

/ COUNTRYSIDE EDUCATION TRUST / STAFF RESPONSIBLE / EDUCATION OFFICERS, OTHER STAFF /

DATE

/ Ongoing

Relevant Activity Risk Assessments

/ Woodland Crafts/Survival Skills/Tudors/Minibeasting/Campfires/Shelter Building

Nature of Hazard

/ Potential outcomes: severity, likelihood and persons at risk /

Precautions

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Estimation of residual risk

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Further precautions

Shutters / Caught fingers
Low
Mainly children / Advise to not touch shutters / Severity of hazard: Low
Likelihood of event: Low
Adequacy of controls: High / Qualified first aider available
Trip hazard of logs around fire circle or roots / Cuts, grazes and bruises
Medium
Mainly children / Advise not to run around and watch where you are going. / Severity of hazard: Low
Likelihood of event: Medium
Adequacy of controls: High / Qualified first aider available
Low Light levels due to overhanging trees / Trips/slips etc.
Medium
Mainly Children / Advise not to run around and look carefully where you are going / Severity of hazard: Low
Likelihood of event: Medium
Adequacy of controls: High / Qualified first aider available
Close proximity to fire / Burns, smoke in eyes
Medium Medium
All / If children need to move around the fire circle they must move around the outside of the seating logs.
Only adults put items on to the fire. / Severity of hazard: Low
Likelihood of event: Low
Adequacy of controls: High / Qualified first aider available
Toasting marshmallows / Burns, injury from sharp skewers
Medium Medium
All participants / Demonstration of how to do the toasting to be given before children start.
No more than 4 children toasting their marshmallows at a time.
Children must kneel to toast their marshmallows.
Children should take their marshmallows back to their seat and let it cool down before eating it. / Severity of hazard: Low
Likelihood of event: Low
Adequacy of controls: High / Qualified first aider available