About CLEAPSS
CLEAPSS provides support for a consortium of local authorities in the UK. It is controlled by its members which currently includes all Local Authorities that have local schools throughout the British Isles (not Scotland). CLEAPSS also has over 2000 associate members, ie: academies and voluntary-aided schools (where not a member via a local authority), independent schools, colleges of further education, teacher-training establishments and science learning centres, oerseas institutions that follow UK syllabuses and the International Baccalaureate , field centres, museums, and examination boards and curriculum developers. In addition, CLEAPSS carries out research work for the Department of Education, the Health and Safety Executive of the UK (who have the legal remit to prosecute teachers and employers should unfortunate incidents occur) and the various learned societies, eg the Royal Chemical Society.
CLEAPSS provides termly newsletters for primary and secondary schools, a wide range of free publications, model risk assessments, supplementary and special risk assessments, low-cost training courses for technicians, teachers and local authority officers, a telephone and internet Helpline which takes almost 7000 enquires per year, a monitoring service, eg, for mercury spills, ionising-radiation advice, evaluations of equipment, advice on repairs. a H&S / Review service for publishers, exam boards and other organisations producing teaching resources.
CLEAPSS believes that safety in school science is not achieved by filling in forms , which are stored in filing cabinets and never read, but the control measures which reduce risk, should be available to teachers and technicians in point-of-use texts. That means, they are included in the agreed departmental schemes-of-work, on worksheets and inclusive of the published procedure. CLEAPSS runs many |
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