Risk Assessments


Please familiarise yourself with this list of Risk Assessments, so that you know which one to refer to according to the area of activity you are engaging with. A paper copy of Risk Assessments can be found in a named folder in the office.  All the Full Risk Assessments are available on the links below

Norcot Risk Assessment List for Staff
50:50 Ratio Electricity & electrical equipment Paddling Pools Outing-Arthur Newbery Park
Animals in Centre Expectant mothers Personal Protective Equipment Outing-Bus trip Battle Library Trip
Asbestos Fires/portable stoves Personal Safety & Lone Working Outing-Bus trip Mosque Oxford Rd
Banks and slopes First Aid/Paediatric First Aid Fresh Flowers / Plants Outing-Bus trip Reading retail park
Bathrooms (whole Centre) Food Hygiene & Food Safety Portable Power & Hand Tools Outing-Bus trip to Forbury Gardens
Body fluids (first aid & other incidents) Food Processor Power Drills Outing-McIlroy Park
Bouncy Castles Garden - Hillside/Meadowside Power Washer Outing-Oxford Road Recreation Ground
Broken Arm (child) Garden - Waterside Premises Conditions Outing-Postbox Weald Rise
Bumblebees Group 1 Gardening Pond and Allotment Outing-Scours Lane River
Cash Handling Heights - working at Outing-St Mary Magdalene church
Catering kitchens Helpers/Visitors/Students Sensory Dome & Library Outing-Tilehurst Train station
Creams Containing Nuts Hillside sliding doors Slips & Trips Outing-Train trip to Forbury Gardens(J
Challenging behaviour - Acorn room High Sensory Room Step Ladders Outing-Train trip to Reading Train station
Classroom - basic Home visits Tea Lights and Candles Outing-Waitrose
Cleaning - General Knee pain - staff Vacuum Cleaning Outing-Walk to Reading retail park
Climbing Knife Safety Violence & Agression to employees Woodwork at Norcot
Coconuts Ladybirds Room - Waterside
Coeliac Laundry Safety Work in Waterside garden
Communicable Disease record Learning Through Nature Working lunch
Contractors on premises Glue Gun
Cooking & preparing Lone Working on site Walkie Talkies
Cooking in classroom
C.O.S.H.H. (General) Manual Handling (individual capability etc.)
Criminal conviction - staff
DBS - staff without Medication - administration of
DDSL access to CPOMS before training Fracture - staff
Defibrillator Microwave Ovens
Dishwasher Mobility issues - staff
Entrapment of fingers in doors Ovens, Grills, Steamers, Stove

Every time a Risk Assessment is updated you will be sent a link to confirm you have read, understood and will implement the Risk Assessment you have just read.