Get Ready — HASPEV
Although this guidance provides practical resources, the way you apply them needs to reflect current advice, guidance and the law. You should also ensure that you comply with your employer’s requirements (governing body or LA, where appropriate). Where HASPEV guidance refers to ‘Visits’ this means most Category 2 and Category 3 activities.
Your LOtC team or colleague with responsibility for LOtC should be able to let you have a copy of:
The 1998 Health and Safety of Pupils on Education Visits (HASPEV) guidance together with its three part supplement (2002):
Other key documents are:
Health and Safety Responsibilities and Powers (2001)
Group Safety at Water Margins (2003)
HASPEV contains a list of other publications which you may find useful and are listed below. These can be downloaded from the Teachernet website.
- Planning visits
- Preparing pupils
- Planning transport
- Types of visit
- Visits abroad
BS 8848 provides a checklist of risk management measures for visits overseas which you may consider adventurous. It is not statutory. Nor is it specific to age, activity or sector. And you can use it alongside sector 'how to' guidance. The British Standards Institute addresses BS 8848 to venture providers who have overall responsibility for all participants. Schools leading their own visits overseas may wish to consider it and can download further details from The British Standards Institute.