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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
Integrates maths and science via measuring, recording, and experiments.
Promotes healthy eating through growing and tasting produce.
Supports wellbeing with calming, purposeful outdoor tasks.
Strengthens environmental stewardship and biodiversity awareness.
Builds understanding of plant life cycles, soil, and pollination.
Typical hazards & measures
Water hazards (ponds, butts, buckets)
— Fit secure lids/mesh on butts; fence ponds or set no-go perimeters; empty buckets after use; supervision within arm’s reach for water tasks; non-slip by taps; rescue reach pole accessible; brief on no play near edges.
Thorns, splinters and prickles
— Identify thorny species; provide long sleeves and gloves; teach safe stem control and cut direction; use loppers not hand-pulling; remove arisings promptly; mark bramble zones; first-aid kit stocked for minor wounds.
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.
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.
Compost bioaerosols and mould
— Turn heaps only by trained staff; damp down dusty areas; stand upwind; avoid face-level handling; no immunocompromised pupils on compost duty; wash hands; store sacks sealed; ventilate potting areas.
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