What to include in your risk assessment
Cover all the tools and activities involved in teaching art, design and technology that might involve hazards. Don't forget activities that you provide in after-school clubs as well as in lessons.
Consider what the risks involved may be, and what steps you will take to mitigate them.
Depending on how your curriculum and extra-curricular activities are organised, you may wish to include other risk assessments in a single document with your art, design and technology risk assessment. For example, it could be grouped with:
You can use our generic risk assessment template to create your own, and get inspiration with examples of art, design and technology risk assessments below.
Example risk assessments
Hindsford Primary School in Manchester has an art, design and technology risk assessment (scroll down to the bottom of the page) St Matthew's
