Risk assessments for educational school trips
Risk assessments are an important part of school trip planning, and we are here to support you every step of the way. Save time with our expert knowledge and simple process, including useful risk assessment templates that cover our trips.
What is a risk assessment?
A risk assessment is evidence that, as part of planning your trip, you have set out why you are doing this activity, identified any hazards that may exist, considered how likely and serious the hazards are, and recorded the measures you are putting in place to eliminate or reduce the risk.
You could compare risk assessments with lesson planning – you set out your learning outcomes and question, ‘why are we doing this?’.
The NST Risk Assessment Guide
We’ve created our Risk Assessment Guide to help you understand more about your responsibilities and how you can manage group safety on your next school trip, as well as providing you with risk assessments for your trip.
Within our guide, you’ll find:
- How to conduct risk assessments
- Example code of conduct
- Generic risk assessments
- Accommodation safety advice and risk assessments
- Transport risk assessments
- Visit risk assessments
Free inspection visits
To help you with your own school trip risk assessments, we offer free preview visits (2 nights of accommodation for 2 people at your destination). You just need to cover the travel costs.