Accident Procedure

The Health & Safety policy of the business clearly states that every accident will be recorded in the accident book. This is especially important in respect to children in a nursery environment and the procedure to be adopted is as follows:

Any member of staff who sees, or is made aware of, any accident to a child, member of staff, trainee, volunteer or visitor must check whether it has been recorded in the accident book. 

If the accident has already been recorded then they must add any relevant notes of their own to the record.

If it has not been recorded then if they are the senior person present they must create a record, if not then they should raise the matter with the senior person present and ensure a record is created.

The accident record book is in duplicate so as that the top copy is given to parents when ever a child has any injury whilst in the care of Playaway Day Nursery.

A copy of a page from the child’s accident record book is shown opposite. This fulfils the requirement of Section 3.

(Accidents to adults should be recorded in the separate accident register retained for that purpose in the office)