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
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.
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 school garden activities in school & education settings. You can add, remove or adapt items to match your context.
Potential benefits
Builds understanding of plant life cycles, soil, and pollination.
Supports wellbeing with calming, purposeful outdoor tasks.
Strengthens environmental stewardship and biodiversity awareness.
Promotes healthy eating through growing and tasting produce.
Encourages responsibility through regular care and watering rotas.
Typical hazards & measures
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.
Outdoor electrical equipment and sockets
— Use RCD-protected outdoor outlets; inspect cables; keep plugs off wet ground; no daisy-chains; isolate before moving pumps/lighting; store leads coiled/dry; adults operate only; report tripping or heat.
Slips, trips and uneven ground
— Inspect paths; level or mark holes; clear debris; require sturdy footwear; pace control in mud; handrails on slopes; set barrows one-way on narrow routes; keep a brush and shovel at each area.
Supervision, ratios and behaviour
— Set ratios by task; position adults to cover tools and water; brief rules at start; stop work if rules breached; allocate roles (digger, spotter, tidy); re-count on moves; lock sheds when unsupervised.
Soil-borne pathogens and hygiene
— Cover cuts; gloves for soil; avoid face touching; handwash before eating; keep tetanus awareness on consent forms; prohibit potting mix blowing; store tools clean/dry; keep a no-food zone in work areas; clean minor wounds immediately.
How to use this template
Click Create Risk Assessment: School Garden Activities 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.
