Create clear, professional risk assessments in minutes. List hazards, set measures and assign responsibilities, then download a clean PDF branded with your organisation.
Get Started
Create a Risk Assessment
1
Using Tarps and Hammocks Risk Assessment
Create a professional, comprehensive risk assessment for using tarps and hammocks in forest schools settings. Tailor hazards and measures to your needs and download a professional PDF. Add your own branding.
Begin straight away; create a free account later if you want to save.
What this covers.
This template focuses on typical risks and controls for using tarps and hammocks in forest schools settings. You can add, remove or adapt items to match your context.
Potential benefits
Fosters independence in creating personal resting or hiding places.
Improves awareness of spatial arrangements and structural stability.
Supports physical relaxation and emotional recovery in hammock setups.
Provides practical experience with knots, shelter design, and tarp layout.
Links comfort and protection to decision-making about space and shelter.
Typical hazards & measures
Uneven ground
— Clear all tarp and hammock zones of rocks, roots, and uneven surfaces before setup. Rake or level ground where needed. Conduct a site sweep before every session to ensure stability and reduce the chance of trips, stubbed toes, or poor footing.
Multiple people on hammock
— Implement a strict one-person-at-a-time rule for hammocks. Explain reasons clearly and enforce consistently. If children wish to use hammocks together, provide alternatives like group shelters.
Incorrect rope visibility for visually impaired children
— Use brightly coloured ropes and secure them at contrasting heights to ground. Offer 1:1 support and adjust setup for better accessibility when needed.
Hypersensitivity reactions to material (e.g. rope coating)
— Choose non-irritant or natural fibres for sensitive users. Keep gloves available and allow children to choose their level of contact. Record any known sensitivities in planning documents.
Poor tarp pitch causing water pooling
— Train staff and students to pitch tarps at an angle that allows runoff. Use taut lines and adjust tension throughout the session. Reassess structure after rain or heavy dew.
How to use this template
Click Create Risk Assessment: Using Tarps and Hammocks to begin immediately.
Review suggested hazards and measures, then tailor as needed.
Download your PDF. Create a free account if you want to save.
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional
Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
