Health and safety

We regard safety as paramount and it must take precedence over all other objectives.

Halsbury Travel proud member of the School Travel Forum.
The School Travel Forum It is a group of leading school tour operators that promote good practice and safety in school travel.
All full members of the STF adhere to a rigorous Code of Practice and Safety Management Standards that are externally verified each year by Overcoat, the UK’s leading Health and Safety Consultancy specialising in Travel.

Where safety is a way of life

Health & Safety Policy Statement – Tour programmes
The Directors of Halsbury Travel regard safety as paramount and must take precedence over all other objectives. They have assumed responsibility for the development and implementation of the Safety Management System to ensure that all reasonable measures are taken so that clients are assured of a high level of safety throughout all of its tour programmes.

Halsbury Travel are committed to:

• Facilitate and promote a positive health and safety culture.
• Assessing the risks associated with activities and to introduce and maintain appropriate control measures.
• Provide safe transport and accommodation by using competent providers, compliant with local, national and/or international health and safety standards.
• Provide adequate financial and human resources to implement policy.
• Ensuring all staff are competent to apply the SMS.
• Establish and maintain effective systems of communication with clients.
• Regularly review and, as appropriate, up-date the SMS.

The application of the SMS and the monitoring and improvement of safety standards is the responsibility of all Halsbury Travel staff who are committed to strive to meet the objectives of this policy.

Keith Sharkey

Managing Director

Worried about risk assessments?

Stf has published a very helpful document for teachers and group leaders going abroad with a group. You can download demystifying risk assessments here.

 

 

• School Travel Forum for the promotion of good practice and safety in school travel: www.schooltravelforum.com



• Department for Education and Skills (DfES): Health and Safety of Pupils on Educational Visits.
  The cornerstone of good Health and Safety practice.



• DfES: Health and Safety: Responsibilities and Powers.
  Looks at the legal framework behind Health and Safety on school trips.



• DfES: Standards for LEAs in Overseeing Educational Visits.
  Expands on the principles set out in HASPEV.



• DfES: Standards for Adventure.
  Specifically aimed at adventure holidays.



• DfES: A Handbook for Group Leaders.
  A practical guide to implementing HASPEV.



• Health and Safety Executive (HSE): Five Steps to Risk Assessment.
  Principally aimed at employers.

Don't forget that each LEA will also have its own guidelines on Health and Safety on school trips, many of which are available electronically.