School Health & Safety Service
How safe is your school or multi-academy trust for students and staff?
We help schools and MATs create a safe, compliant environment with expert-led, education-specific health & safety support tailored to meet legal requirements and best practices.
By choosing Judicium’s expert Health & Safety service, schools and MATs can stay fully compliant, reduce risk, and create a safer learning environment for staff and students.
Our Health & Safety Service includes
Unlimited Advice
Free Access to JEDU
IOSH members
Expert-Led Health & Safety Audits
Ensure full compliance with HSE and DfE regulations through an in-depth audit of your school or MAT’s health and safety policies, risk management, and procedures, identifying gaps and providing a clear action plan for improvement.
Customised Health & Safety Policies & Procedures
Stay compliant with up-to-date policies, including Managing Contractors, Fire Safety, and School / Academy Health & Safety Policies, ensuring best practices across your site(s).
Proactive Risk Assessments
We conduct detailed risk assessments in schools, covering key areas such as premises safety, COSHH, and first aid policy compliance, with tailored recommendations to reduce risks and improve safety with a set Action Plan for the school or MAT.
Specialist Curriculum Risk Management
Support for high-risk practical subjects such as science, PE, design & technology, etc., with assessment, advice and an action plan to ensure safe learning environments and compliance with DfE guidelines.
Dedicated IOSH Certified Health & Safety Consultant
Gain unlimited access to a specialist school safety adviser, offering expert guidance, compliance support, and real-time advice for all health & safety concerns.
Accident Investigation & Compliance Support
Should an accident, near-miss, or serious incident occur, we provide expert-led investigations, identifying causes and compliance failures, ensuring your school or MAT meets duty of care obligations.
Exclusive Online Resource Hub
Access a comprehensive document library with over 500 files including risk assessment templates, health and safety policies, classroom safety checklists, and compliance updates, keeping your school or MAT informed and prepared.
CPD-Accredited Health & Safety eLearning for all Employees
Empower your staff with free, unlimited access to over 30 CPD-accredited eLearning courses, covering fire safety, risk assessments, first aid, and health & safety best practices.
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Fire Risk Assessment Service
Our BAFE-accredited fire risk assessment gives schools and MATs a clear, consistent approach to fire safety, ensuring all essential precautions are in place.
We identify hazards, assess evacuation routes, and check that alarms, extinguishers, and safety equipment are properly maintained.
With expert guidance, schools and trusts can strengthen emergency preparedness, enhance staff training, and stay fully compliant—minimising risk and ensuring a safer environment for all.
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Access all your compliance documents using
our Compliance Dashboard.
JEDU is our online Health & Safety Audit compliance reporting software for schools and Multi Academy Trusts.
A leading tool for busy school senior leaders.
Health & Safety audit compliance dashboard for school leaders
- Monitor overall assessment of risk for each key area via the education specific dashboard
- View your schools action plan for recommended and required improvements
- The audit and associated award gives school leaders and trust managers confidence that all their health and safety compliance needs are being addressed by our experts
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- School leaders can track progress towards completion of tasks
- MAT leaders can see all schools in their group via the easy dashboard
- MAT leaders can track progress towards the completion of all recommendations across their schools
Health and Safety has always been a difficult area for us; we simply don't have the knowledge or expertise to carry out all the risk assessments ourselves. Judicium's down to earth approach and simple to read policies and documents are a refreshing change."
Paul Tuffin | Head Teacher | Raysfield Primary School
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Frequently Asked Questions
We will send you a list of documents and a format for the visit. We don’t expect you to have all the information we need but the consultant will discuss this with you and ensure we can review the significant documents. The audit is a process
The first visit is the starting point. Over time our working relationship will develop and you will work with your assigned consultant to complete all that is required. We will work with you during visits and remotely, whenever needed. Our consultancy work is much more than just your audit meeting.
The school is required to provide appropriate health & safety training for the work that is being completed. The level and subjects depend on the person’s job role. Through our service, you have unlimited access to our comprehensive e-learning library of school-specific CPD-accredited courses. This enables you to assign suitable courses to each employee.
In addition to e-learning, we offer face-to-face training for those who require such training. By using our service you are able to successfully demonstrate that you comply with legal requirements for providing appropriate training for all employees.
A fire risk assessment must be written by a competent person. This includes training and experience. Our consultants are both highly trained in fire risk assessment and have extensive experience in school-specific fire risk assessment. You can be confident that we provide the very best competent people to complete your assessment.
We understand the unique challenges faced by schools and school leaders in complying with fire safety while managing a school. We understand, through experience, exactly how those in schools use the buildings. This may not always reflect the way the school was designed. We are skilled at providing solutions.
Our consultant will send a detailed list of information they need to review. They will complete a comprehensive process with you, looking at how the school has been designed, is being used, and any issues that have been identified.
The consultant will inspect each area of the school with you. We will address any questions or concerns you have and will provide you will a detailed fire risk assessment with a clear action plan of recommendations. We provide ongoing support and guidance throughout the school year, not just at the assessment.
Each visit results in a report. These can be viewed on our online JEDU platform. You can download the whole report, just the action plan or the related data. Schools are able to assign actions to individuals, update progress, and provide evidence that the required work has been completed.
All reports are easy to access, and can be used in internal reports as required. If you are part of a multi-academy trust, you are able to view the results for all your schools on our JEDU MAT dashboard. This an invaluable tool, displaying live data, as actions are being completed. The Jedu platform is available for health & safety and Fire risk assessment reports.
Every client has access to a comprehensive library of guidance, template, policy, and update/newsflash documents. Each one can be downloaded and amended to suit your needs. If there are legal changes or new documents are required, we simply upload them for your access. All documents are available on our JEDU platform.