Plan safe EOTC trips and excursions
Suggestion for implementing the strategy ‘Reviewing your policies and procedures’
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Health and safety: EOTC policy
Health and safety: EOTC policy
Understand and comply with legal responsibilities, NAG 5.
Ensure that there is a health and safety policy with supporting procedures in place and that these are implemented effectively.
As part of your policy consider how you:
- identify children and young people with asthma
- ensure that emergency plans and procedures are in place
- minimise risks to asthma triggers
- plan to reduce exposure to indoor and outdoor triggers
- ensure medication is available at all times and is up-to-date
- identify emergency and first-aid procedures for children and young people with asthma
- train all new and existing staff and parent helpers to deliver asthma first aid
- maintain an emergency asthma kit.
Source: EOTC guidelines 2016: Bringing the curriculum alive (opens in a new tab/window)
Plan safe excursions
Plan safe excursions
Use HS17 Excursions to support your planning.
Have an emergency inhaler and spacer in your first-aid kit.
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Plan safe EOTC trips
Plan safe EOTC trips
Obtain and review the medical and health information of all participants involved in an EOTC event.
Be prepared:
- Identify specific allergens such as pollen or grass seeds, which may exacerbate an asthma attack, and plan to avoid these where possible.
- Include a spacer and inhaler in your first-aid kit.
- Check students have their inhalers with them before setting out.
- Prior to the trip, ensure parent helpers know the signs of an asthma attack and what to do during an asthma episode.
Source: EOTC guidelines 2016: Bringing the curriculum alive (opens in a new tab/window)
Identify and assess risks (RAMS)
Identify and assess risks (RAMS)
Use Tool 13: Assessing risks with specific reference to children and young people with asthma, when planning for EOTC.
- Identify hazards – find out the situations and things that could cause an asthma attack and/or affect treatment (Examples include: asthma triggers, access to asthma medication, asthma first-aid knowledge).
- Assess risks – understand the nature of the risk, the consequences, and the likelihood of it happening (Examples include: anxiety, difficulty breathing, asthma attack, and distance from emergency services).
- Control risks – implement the most effective control measures that are practicable in the circumstances (Examples include: quick access to reliever inhalers, asthma emergency kit, and cell phone).
- Review control measures – review your asthma emergency procedures. Are they working as planned?
Useful resources
Useful resources
EOTC guidelines – Bringing the curriculum alive
School guidelines supporting safe and effective practices and procedures for EOTC.
Risk identification, assessment and management
This series of guides provides general information for the education sector about the different elements of an effective health and safety system.
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