Training

All staff who are involved in the pupil's safe evacuation should be trained including refresher training in the:

• Specific emergency procedures to ensure staff are kept up to date with the procedures and where appropriate;
• Paediatric Moving and Handling
• Evacuation chair training

It should be ensured that a sufficient number of staff trained and available to assist in an emergency evacuation to cover staff absence records of training should be recorded on the PEEP, and a copy kept in the Fire Log.

Staff involved in moving and handling should either attend a one day Paediatric Moving and Handling course (with hoists) or half day course (without hoists).  Refresher training is required annually to protect the health of staff and the pupil. 

An appropriate member of staff in Special Schools and Additionally Resourced Provisions, with pupils with physical disabilities, should attend a 2-day Load Assessor Risk Assessment course.  This person should monitor all the moving and handling tasks that are undertaken in the school.  

Refer to section 5.2a, Health and Safety Policies and Procedures, for further information on Moving and Handling and the requirements for training.