In line with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) guidelines, centres should follow five steps to risk assessment: 1. Identify the hazards 2. Decide who might be harmed and how 3. Evaluate the risks and decide on precautions 4. Record your findings and implement them 5. Review your assessment and update if necessary. Potential Risk Who might be involved Level of risk (10 = take Precautions immediate action, 9-7 consider actions, below 6 = monitor) Injury during transport to Self, group, other 3 Travel by coach to location. Plan field location pupils. parking and road crossing in advance. Injury during data Self, group, other 7 Monitor weather conditions. Do collection. Drowning. vehicle users. not enter the water if considered unsafe. Emergency contact number. One member of group to observe. Injury to person accessing Self, group, other 3 Use main pathways. Pay river location (mountain pupils. attention to surroundings environment). especially when in the process of data collection. Complete pilot investigation – previsit. 2. Selecting, measuring and recording data appropriate to the chosen enquiry Difference between primary and secondary data. Primary Data Secondary Data Definition Data collected that are original and collected for Data collected by using already available the first time, eg data. sources, eg published materials. Examples of Closed questioning / questionnaires Census data (last one 2011 completed – this type of Traffic and pedestrian counts every ten years). data Litter counts Photographs from the internet Rating / grading scores Website content Depth / width Library books and sources Speed / velocity Newspaper archives
In line with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) guidelines, centres should follow five steps to risk assessment: 1. Identify the hazards 2. Decide who might be harmed and how 3. Evaluate the risks and decide on precautions 4. Record your findings and implement them 5. Review your assessment and update if necessary. Potential Risk Who might be involved Level of risk (10 = take immediate action, 9-7 consider actions, below 6 = monitor) Precautions Injury during transport to field location Self, group, other pupils. 3 Travel by coach to location. Plan parking and road crossing in advance. Injury during data collection. Drowning. Self, group, other vehicle users. 7 Monitor weather conditions. Do not enter the water if considered unsafe. Emergency contact number. One member of group to observe. Injury to person accessing river location (mountain environment). Self, group, other pupils. 3 Use main pathways. Pay attention to surroundings especially when in the process of data collection. Complete pilot investigation – previsit. 2. Selecting, measuring and recording data appropriate to the chosen enquiry Difference between primary and secondary data. Primary Data Secondary Data Definition Data collected that are original and collected for the first time, eg data. Data collected by using already available sources, eg published materials. Examples of this type of data Closed questioning / questionnaires Traffic and pedestrian counts Litter counts Rating / grading scores Depth / width Speed / velocity Census data (last one 2011 – completed every ten years). Photographs from the internet Website content Library books and sources Newspaper archives
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