National Health & Safety Guidance:
Health & Safety on Education Visits (DfES, 1998)
(HASPEV)
Includes:
- Responsibilities for visits
- Planning visits
- Supervision
- Preparing pupils
- Communicating with parents
- Planning transport
- Insurance
- Types of visit
- Visits abroad
- Emergency procedures
- Model forms
- Other guidance
- Useful Contacts
Advice on organising educational visits can be found by clicking this link Health and Safety of Pupils on Educational Visits Pdf.
A three-part supplement to the HASPEV: good practice guide was produced in 2002:
- Standards for LEAs in Overseeing Educational Visits sets out the functions of the educational visits co-ordinator in schools and the levels of risk management that Local Authorities and schools could use.
- Standards for Adventure is aimed at the teacher or youth worker who leads young people on adventure activities.
- A Handbook for Group Leaders is aimed at anyone who leads groups of young people on any kind of educational visit. It sets out good practice in supervision, ongoing risk assessment and emergency procedures.
- Group Safety at Water Margins is aimed at anyone who organises learning activities that take place near or in water, such as a walk along a river bank or seashore, collecting samples from ponds or streams, or paddling or walking in gentle, shallow water.
