Risk Management

The benefits of outdoor learning and play far outweigh the risks. As an organisation, Learning through Landscapes is committed to children being able to experience challenging play and learning activities in the day-to-day environment of their school or nursery grounds. We believe all schools and early years settings should seek to take a balanced and proportionate approach to risk management.

Generic Flora & Fauna Risk Assessment

A risk benefit assessment for any area where participants (children and adults) and LtL staff will come into contact with flora and fauna either deliberately...

School Playground Play and Loose Parts Play Risk Assessment

All free play for children and teens in school playground, parks, woodland, beaches, urban settings. Structured play (games, activities, challenges and sports) by our staff...

Work with vulnerable adults and young people outdoors

Working with vulnerable groups, who may show extreme behaviours, to: Plant trees or general gardening tasks Basic construction using wood or stone; hand tools and...

Pollinators & Beekeeping in School Grounds Risk Assessment

This Risk Benefit Assessment covers encouraging pollinators onto school sites, possibly from nearby hives through the provision of pollinator friendly spaces and species. This RBA...

Play with Ropes Risk Assessment

Rope swings (set up by LtL staff or participants) Rope bridges (set up by LtL staff or participants, including slack lines, postman’s walk and similar)....

Outdoor Tool Use Risk Assessment

Bladed tools such as knives, scissors, axes, loppers, saws, potato peelers, wallpaper strippers, de-barking tools or secateurs. Hammering tools such as mallets, hammers and sledge...

Fire & Cooking Risk Assessment

Lighting, maintaining and putting out of small, contained fires. All our fires are contained – that is in some form of (purpose built or re-purposed)...

Outdoor Conferences and Large Events Risk Assessment

Conferences for 20 or more participants, who have attended individually. The event will vary from a couple of hours to multiple days. Indoor workshops and...

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Our Risk Management System

Above are the Risk Benefit Assessments that we use. They are intended to cover our activities – including play and outdoor learning in schools and early years settings. Our Risk Benefit Assessments are designed to ‘stack’ – any given activity may require a Generic Location, a Generic Activity and possibly a Specific Activity. Specific Activities are ones that pose increased risk potential and require an increased level of control measures, group engagement and staff skills. The implementation of these is supported by our well qualified and experienced staff, our monitoring by LtL Management and an all staff feedback system. This leads to continual improvement and a high level of engagement by all staff, something we value deeply alongside the paperwork side of risk management.