Forest School Risk-Benefit Assessment Template
A professional, reusable Forest School risk-benefit assessment template designed for schools, Forest School settings, outdoor education providers, Scout groups, charities and other organisations delivering outdoor learning.
This practical digital form provides a clear structure for recording the benefits, significant hazards, people who may be affected, existing control measures, further actions and review arrangements associated with Forest School and outdoor-learning activities.
Rather than supplying a generic pre-completed risk assessment, the template helps practitioners and organisations document their own site-specific and activity-specific assessment.
It can be completed electronically or printed and used repeatedly within the licensed setting.
Designed for Forest School & Outdoor Learning
The template is suitable for recording assessments relating to a wide range of outdoor-learning sessions and activities, including woodland activities, practical skills, tool use, fire-based sessions, shelter building, outdoor cooking, nature activities and general Forest School provision.
The blank format means it can be adapted to suit the individual circumstances of your setting, participants, staff, location and activity.
What the Template Includes
The professional form provides space to record:
- school, organisation or setting
- activity or session
- location
- assessment date
- person completing the assessment
- intended benefits and learning outcomes
- significant hazards
- who may be affected and how
- existing control measures
- additional actions required
- person responsible for actions
- action completion dates
- changing or dynamic conditions
- overall decision and review
- assessor sign-off
- review date
The layout is designed to be straightforward and practical without creating unnecessary paperwork.
Blank Professional Template
This product provides the structure for recording your own risk-benefit assessment.
It is not supplied as a completed risk assessment and does not state that any particular activity, site, tool or control measure is automatically safe or suitable.
The purchasing organisation remains responsible for identifying the actual hazards, risks, benefits and appropriate controls relevant to its own:
- participants
- activities
- staff and practitioner competence
- equipment
- site and environment
- organisational procedures
- current conditions
The template should therefore be completed and adapted by an appropriately responsible person within the licensed organisation.
Single Setting Licence
This resource is supplied under a Single Setting Licence.
The named school, organisation or professional setting may:
- complete the template electronically
- print copies
- create multiple completed assessments
- store completed copies internally
- reuse the blank template for its own activities
The blank template may not be supplied to another school, organisation, practitioner or setting.
It may not be resold, sublicensed, publicly uploaded, redistributed or incorporated into another commercial resource.
Each copy is individually licensed to the purchasing organisation.
Personalised Licensed Copy
Your copy will include:
Licensed organisation
Unique licence reference
Issue date
This identifies the organisation authorised to use the resource.
Digital Product – Supplied by Email
This is a digital PDF resource. No physical product will be supplied.
Each copy is individually prepared and licensed before being sent.
Your personalised PDF is usually emailed within 3–5 business days following acceptance of the order and receipt of any information required to prepare the licence.
This is not an instant-download product.
Professional & Organisational Use Only
This resource is intended for schools, organisations, charities, professional practitioners and outdoor-learning settings.
It is supplied as a professional planning and record-keeping aid and does not provide a qualification, certification of competence or substitute for training, professional judgement, organisational procedures, insurance requirements or site-specific assessment.
Cancellations & Returns
Because each copy is individually licensed and personalised for the purchasing organisation, please check the organisation details carefully when ordering.
Once the order has been accepted and preparation of the personalised licence has commenced, the resource cannot be cancelled or returned simply because the purchaser has changed their mind.
This does not affect any rights or remedies which cannot lawfully be excluded.
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