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School Garden Activities Risk Assessment Template
Create a professional, comprehensive risk assessment for school garden activities in school & education settings. Tailor hazards and measures to your needs and download a professional PDF. Add your own branding.
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What this covers.
This template focuses on typical risks and controls for school garden activities in school & education settings. You can add, remove or adapt items to match your context.
Potential benefits
Promotes healthy eating through growing and tasting produce.
Supports wellbeing with calming, purposeful outdoor tasks.
Integrates maths and science via measuring, recording, and experiments.
Builds understanding of plant life cycles, soil, and pollination.
Encourages responsibility through regular care and watering rotas.
Typical hazards & measures
Manual handling of soil, pots and timber
— Team-lift heavy bags; split loads; use barrows and trolleys; store at waist height; brief on posture and turning; clear set-down areas before moving; stop and reassess if unstable; gloves for splinters.
Insects, stings and ticks
— Check for nests; avoid agitation; have sting kits and tick removers; long sleeves and socks in long grass; repellent where consented; teach calmly walking away; record significant reactions and adapt future tasks.
Buried sharps and contamination
— Survey beds before work; use trowels first, not hands; provide puncture-resistant gloves for clean-up; lift glass/metal with tools; dedicated sharps pot; stop if needles found and follow protocol; brief pupils to report, not touch.
Chemical use and storage
— Prefer non-chemical controls; if used, follow label/COSHH; adult-only mixing/applying; locked storage; PPE for staff; exclude pupils until dry/re-entry time; record use; never decant to drink bottles.
Plant toxicity and irritant sap
— Map toxic/irritant plants; avoid sap contact; wash after handling; never taste plants; label beds; substitute safer species for primary groups; keep milk/eye wash available; brief on giant hogweed avoidance where relevant.
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