CPD & Training:
Access to Music can provide a full range of training services in event management, health & safety and risk assessment for education.
• Seminars, Lectures and Training Days.
• CIEH courses and SPA, PSA Health & Safety Passport Courses can be delivered upon request.

Health & Safety for Events in Education Including Risk Assessment Training
A one-day training programme raises awareness, develops confidence,
prepares for the unexpected and contributes to competency.

Millions of education visits take place every year. Risk can never be totally eliminated in these circumstances. However, if a trip or event is well planned with all possible risk assessments conducted beforehand, and the accompanying staff act reasonably and responsibly, the likelihood of serious accidents occurring will be reduced.
- Source: RoSPA, Occupational Safety & Health Journal, March 2006.

Enrichment and extra-curricular activities can be of substantial benefit to the student/pupil and can also provide realistic goals and objectives. The department for Education and Skills and the Health and Safety Executive strongly believe in the educational value of off-site trips.

Middle managers in FE are often too busy to give much thought to health and safety on a day-to-day basis.  The consequences of this are that teachers may not give it the priority it deserves and institutions may find themselves in a situation of serious injury to staff and/or students, the bad publicity that accompanies such incidents and the threat of legal action.  This course is aimed at middle managers that want a guide to health and safety that is practical and easy to implement.

Access to Music’s Risk Assessment Training provides realistic guidance and advice together with practical information and resources. It specifically looks at health and safety issues and risk assessments for off-site events and visits in the Further Education (FE) sector. This one-day programme raises awareness, develops confidence, prepares for the unexpected and contributes to competency.

One-Day Programme – 10:00 until 16:00 (45min. lunch break)

• Education Visits and Off-Site Events – Common Hazards
• Duty of Care & Loco Parentis
• What is Competent?
• Group Leaders - Responsibilities
• Legislation
• Why Risk Assessment?
• Principles of Suitable and Sufficient Risk Assessment
• Risk Assessment in Practice
• Policies & Procedures
• Summary & Review


Delegates will receive a disk with template risk assessments for students trips, education events etc that can be adapted for the particular needs of an institution and/or area of work. Delegates will receive a pack with all the information they need to implement health and safety operationally (FAQs, checklists, basis guide to the law etc). Delegates will complete one risk assessment suitable to an area of  work they are involved in (delegates could bring in case studies to  develop as a group activity). Delegates will receive a certificate (non accredited) of competence upon completion of the course.
 
Who will benefit from this training?
Group leaders and/or event organisers - especially those based in music and media sectors of FE.

Who is your trainer?
Jono Heale - B/Mus (hons), Tech IOSH, AIIRSM, AIfL.
Head of Events and Health & Safety Advisor – Access to Music Ltd.

Jono’s background comes form the entertainment industry working both sides of the curtain for many years. He has worked within the FE sector for 10 years with experience in teaching and running level 3 and level 4 courses. He developed a unique national enrichment programme for Access to Music, organising music events; master-class tours; conferences, residential summer schools and special features at trade fairs. Jono has orgainsed events at venues from small clubs to the NEC Birmingham and BAFTA in London.

Jono’s health and safety qualifications include NEBOSH National General Certificate, IOSH Managing Safety in the Entertainment and Exhibition Industry and CIEH Professional Trainers Certificate. He is a Technician Member of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, a member of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents and an Associate Member of the International Institute of Risk Management.


How much, when & where?

£135 per person – Access to Music Centre in Leicester or London.
£525 per group session – on site delivery at your venue.

All fees exclude VAT.
Fee per person for training day at our venue includes a buffet lunch and refreshments.
Fee for group session up to 5 persons at your venue excludes subsistence and travel expenses of trainer.
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