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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.
Strengthens environmental stewardship and biodiversity awareness.
Encourages responsibility through regular care and watering rotas.
Integrates maths and science via measuring, recording, and experiments.
Typical hazards & measures
Unsupervised or out-of-hours access
— Lock the garden outside supervised sessions; operate key control; no pupil lone working; display “no access without staff” signs; issue tools only during booked sessions and lock away immediately; allow independent tasks only within staff line-of-sight; sweep and re-count at session end.
Hoses, tools and obstacles on paths
— Route hoses along edges; bridge across paths with covers; coil after use; keep stacking points off walkways; set a “tools down” call when moving groups; store stakes and canes horizontally below shoulder height.
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.
Site security and boundary access
— Lock gates; clear sightlines from staff bases; separate public footpaths with fencing; display “school gardening in progress” signs; keep tools out of view when not in use; report suspicious activity.
Hand tools and tool control
— Brief pupils on safe grips and working distances; issue tools via a register; carry points down; gloves for handling, not at rotating kit; remove damaged tools; collect before bells; lock stores; set a red-zone around users and enforce one-at-a-time at benches.
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