Introduction

This guidance sets out the health and safety responsibilities of school governors.

• It outlines legal duties in relation to health and safety.
• It underlines health and safety requirements that schools should be complying with and how Governors have a pivotal role to play.
• It defines the role of a school governor to have a strategic overview of how the school is managed, this includes the monitoring and effectiveness of health and safety issues alongside curriculum issues both of which should form part of the everyday management processes.
• To provide practical guidance about the role of governing bodies in managing health and safety in schools.