The Health and Safety Executive(HSE) as the body responsible for enforcing safety laws in our schools believes that up to 80% of accidents and incidents can be attributed to what they are calling now Human Factors. An indication of how Human Factors integrate with the HSEs Regulatory function can be seen in the where they emphasise such as contributory factors. The list below shows where HSE have identified Human Facto…
School Safety Protecting Children From Criminals In UK Schools.
It is well known that following the death of two 10 year old girls in 2002 murdered by Ian Huntley, a 31 year old school caretaker, at Soham in Cambridgeshire in England that there were failings in the screening system used to check the murderers background.
The screening system is referred to as Disclosure and a full system of Disclosure was actually in place at the time of the Soham murders. This system was set up to ensure unsuitable persons did not come into contact w…