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As an employer taking on a young person for work experience, you have the main responsibility for their health and safety. Always check they know how to raise health and safety concerns. Under...
- Advice for work experience organisers
Work experience organisers have no responsibility under...
- Advice for work experience organisers
May 30, 2023 · You should be aware that, under health and safety law, every employer must ensure the health and safety of their employees and have set out specific considerations when working with young people. Work experience students are your employees, like any other young person you employ.
Work experience organisers have no responsibility under health and safety law for work experience students. The employer is responsible for workplace health and safety.
business, ensure young people have their health and safety protected while they are with you. Under health and safety law, work experience students are your employees.
- Employing A Young Person For The First Time
- If You Already Employ A Young Person
- Greatest Risks to Young People
- Levels of Risk
- Written Risk Assessment
If you are employing a young person for the first time, or employing one with particular needs, you should review your risk assessment before they start. You do not need to do a separate risk assessment for work experience students, as long as your existing assessment already considers the specific factors for young people.
If you employ a young person already, or have done recently, your existing arrangements for assessment and management of the risks for new young people should be enough. This is providing that the new starter is of a similar level of maturity and understanding, and has no particular needs, such as a disability.
For many young people the workplace will be a new environment and they will be unfamiliar with 'obvious' risks and the behaviour expected of them. They may lack experience or maturity. Make sure they understand what is expected of them, check they understand and are able to remember and follow instructions. They may not have reached physical maturi...
Low risk environments
For placements in low-risk environments, such as offices or shops, with everyday risks that will mostly be familiar to the young person or student, your existing arrangements for other workers should be enough.
Less familiar risks
For environments with risks less familiar to them (for example in light assembly or packing facilities), you should make arrangements to manage the risks. This should include induction, supervision, site familiarisation, and any protective equipment needed.
High-risk environments
For work in a higher-risk environment such as construction, agriculture and manufacturing: 1. consider the work they will be doing or observing, the risks involved and how they are managed 2. satisfy yourself that the instruction, training and supervisory arrangements have been properly thought through and work in practice Consider specific factors that must be managed for young people, including exposure to: 1. radiation 2. noise and vibration 3. toxic substances 4. extreme temperatures Wher...
If you have fewer than 5 employees you do not need to do a written risk assessment. If a work experiencestudent increases your staff to 5 you do not need to do a written risk assessment for this temporary period.
Safeguarding. Schools and colleges organising work experience placements should ensure that policies and procedures are in place to protect children from harm. Other safeguards should be put in place such as: Risk assessments are undertaken prior to young people going placements.
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In the UK, individuals involved in work experience, such as students and trainees (inclusive of children) are treated under health and safety law as employees.
