Health and Safety Essay

Explain how health and safety is monitored and maintained and how people in the work setting be made aw ar of risks and hazards and encouraged to work safely. In my placement we pose a safeguarding policy but we dont entertain a health and safety polices that I am aware of but the safeguarding polices is acquirable on the schools website. Anyone is able to get on to the website and their policies. We have a suspiration by the sink in the staff room say exemplification hot water and we have a sigh in the classrooms let children and staff knows that the water in the tabs is drinking water we also have fire safety sign around the school. They always have clashing every month on health and safety but it is hardly for the main teachers.We have a fire drill twice a year so all the children and staff know where to go in case of a fire they had a fire drill digest week which was good cause I did non know where to go if a fire happens so it help me cause now I know where to go if a fire happens. We always tell the children not talk to strangers and when the children are going home they are not allowed to get away an till the adults tell them that they can go cause we need to make up sure that the right people are picking the children up and that they are not going off with strangers or with someone they are not meant to go home with.