HEALTH & SAFETY POLICY

Scope

Slough Schools' Football Association is committed to providing a safe working, coaching, teaching and learning environment for all personnel, learners and any related third parties.

It is ultimately the responsibility of Alex Imbastari, to ensure that this procedure is implemented, published and accessible to all personnel, learners and any relevant third parties.

All learners and personnel have a legal responsibility, as stated under Section 7 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, to do everything practicable to prevent an accident or injury to themselves and to fellow learners and/or personnel.

Objectives

Slough Schools' Football Association aims to promote health and safety, so far as reasonably practicable, by:

§ providing and maintaining safe equipment and environment, including a means of access in a condition that is safe and without risk to health

§ preventing accidents and cases of work-related ill health and safety hazards arising from work activities via effective risk identification, assessment and implementation of control measures

§ implementing regular emergency and evacuation procedures in case of a significant incident

§ protecting the health and safety and welfare of individuals and vulnerable learners via systematic risk management

§ engaging with learners, personnel and any related third parties, to provide relevant information, instruction, training and supervision, as is necessary to ensure health and safety

§ providing adequate training and allocating appropriately qualified members of personnel to identify and control potentially hazardous situations/environments

§ complying with statutory regulation on health and safety and welfare of learners, personnel and any related third parties

This list is not exhaustive and represents general principles followed by Slough Schools' FA in respect of health and safety.

First Aiders: Alex Imbastari

All confirmed nominees are appropriately qualified first-aiders, holding current first-aid certificates. Therefore, one of the first-aiders listed above must be contacted in the event of an incident occurring, to administer any first aid required. It is important that all issues where a first-aider has been involved are recorded in the necessary incident logbook(s) which accompany the first-aid box(es).

Risk Assessment:

Slough Schools' FA ensure that suitable and sufficient control measures are in place to reduce identified risks in the delivery of all training and matches

All personnel required to conduct risk assessments will be made aware of what is expected of them in advance. All recorded risk assessments are made available to all relevant staff who must ensure that all control and/or recovery measures plans are complied with and related actions recorded.

Accident Reporting:

During training and matches an individual(s) in charge of the event (possible via delegation) involved in the accident/incident is responsible for ensuring that an investigation takes place and than an accident/incident/near miss report is completed.

In the case of an injury, following appropriate care for the injured individual, the Tutor/ Assessor/individual(s) in charge of the event must inform the nominated person Alex Imbastari at Slough Schools' FA.

The Accident Report Form should be forwarded immediately via the quickest route to enable details to be recorded and any actions noted.

Please note that training or match sites might also have their own recording procedures which will also need to be followed.