A Sample of New Additions to the Handsam Library

New and Updated Quick Guides and Policies

Handsam would like to make you aware of the new or updated Quick Guides you can now access through our Quick Guide Library. We respond to the needs of our customers, through safety issues we encounter on audits or direct requests for content on particular subjects when expanding our resources. This allows us to continue to grow our library around the direct compliance needs of our clients.

PLEASE NOTE THAT POLICIES ARE NOT A PART OF THE "QUICK GUIDES" PACKAGE AND UNLESS THEY ARE COVERED IN YOUR SUBSCRIPTION, THEY MUST BE PURCHASED SEPARATELY.

For more information, contact us on 03332 070737 or email info@handsam.co.uk to find out more.

NEW: RAS106 Risk Assessment Template: Challenging Behaviour

Behaviour may be described as challenging when it places the individual or others at risk, reduces quality of life, or limits participation in everyday activities. While it is typical for children to test boundaries as part of development, most will move through these phases with time and appropriate support. These behaviours, though difficult at times, do not usually meet the threshold for being classed as ‘challenging behaviour’.

Find out more about our Quick Guides and Policies

The Handsam Quick Guides Library contains over 900 documents with all the relevant information, exemplars, checklists and guidance notes you need to ensure you're up to date, including all the DfE, HSE and other formal resources all in one place. It's unique!

Handsam also offers various different policies packages, including providing you with easy-to-use templates for you to tailor yourselves, reviewing your existing policies, or working with you to deliver fully bespoke policies for your school, college or MAT.

If you're not a Handsam client, or you don't buy our Quick Guides or one of our Policies packages, please contact us to discuss how we can help to keep your organisation compliant.

Around 2–5% of children in the UK live with a food allergy, and most classrooms will include at least one pupil who is affected. These young people are at risk of anaphylaxis—a potentially life-threatening reaction that requires an immediate emergency response. Around 20% of serious food-related allergic reactions occur while a child is at school, and they can happen even in children with no previous history of allergy. It is therefore essential that staff can recognise the signs of an allergic reaction and respond safely and effectively.

NEW: RAS108: Self Harm

NEW: RAS107 Risk Assessment Template: Managing Allergies

This risk assessment should be used alongside existing school safeguarding policies. If you are unsure how to respond to a student’s self-harm, you should seek guidance, including advice from mental health professionals when needed.

NEW: RAS109: Noise in School

Significant exposure to excessive levels of noise can cause hearing damage that is permanent and disabling, hearing loss that is gradual because of exposure to noise over time, and also damage caused by sudden, extremely loud noises. It can stop people being able to understand speech, keep up with conversations or use the telephone.

This guidance sets out the law and good practice concerning hand arm vibration and explains the school’s duty to provide information, instruction and training to employees on the risk and the actions being taken to control risk. The Control of Vibration at Work Regulations 2005 (the Vibration Regs) aims to protect workers from risks to health from vibration, which include HAVs and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

NEW: RAS110 Risk Assessment Template Hand Arm Vibration