art material risk assessment??

[Tam's Tribe]

Thanks for sharing this.....i will do 1 now...hadnt thought about it before

Me neither . . . thanks for sharing Sonia!!

[linda2girls]

Thank you everyone. I had no idea we needed one for resources/crafts. It seems so over the top, but I will conform.

Linda.

[Ripeberry]

The whole point of craft materials is that apart from the scissors what harm could they do themselves...seriously?
The scissors are blunt, but they may give each other Mohican haircuts, the playdough usualy has tons of salt in it and they would spit it out pretty sharpish and if they do carry on eating it, they have no taste buds or are too young to have it in the first place.
Glue is usualy non-toxic, so apart from gluing their hair to a load of paper, what harm could they do?
The only R.A I'm doing is that scissors are kept away from the realy young mindees under 2.5yrs old.
We have enough paperwork as it is

[monkey62]

Thanks for sharing .. I have never thaught we need one.....

[Poppins]

this is mine ...

thankyou for sharing yours with us,
it's true i havn't thought of one for art materials but i'm sure the more you have the more ofsted will think we have been thinking of everythin!!!

just never enough hours in the day

[tracey36]

thanks for sharing yours sonia

[sammie09]

excellent!!!!

have been reading these threads about all items child comes into contact ith have to be risk assessed and im going out my head here!!! so ive put together some ramblings, does anyone think this would be ok or not???

i honestly havent a clue about risk assessments and policies!!!

(have tried to attatch but not sure if sucessfuly!! bear with me lol )

hi sorry to sound cheeky but it isnt letting me open it is it possible to send it me in a pm as risk assessments are what ofsted pulled me up on on my inspection

[Karaza]

Your ra's look good but not honestly sure if i want to go down the route of further risk assessments or not think ofsted have gone mad now

[Fabby]

I think both of your RA's are great and thanks for sharing, i will be taking some very useful info from them. Thanks again for taking your time to share

[cas2805]

OMG I hadn't thought of that either! Thanks for that, best get on with more RAs

[babs]

some might think its crazy to do risk assessments on arts and crafts but when i was doing easter crafts lo decided she wanted to eat pva glue off brush i only turned to help other lo as she had cotton wool stuck on her fingers ( hates to get hands dirty) turned back to see her dipping brush back in then into mouth... by the way she is nearly 3 and everything goes in her mouth but 1st time she tasted pva glue.. so i did a risk assessment have since slowly going though my resourses one by one adding a couple each night... when you start thinking ypur mind goes into over drive..

[Carol M]

On a training course another setting told us about a child choking on Blu tac which was being used to stick posters onto the wall.
If nothing else, the process of risk assessing makes you think.
Thankyou ladies for sharing
Carol x

[playdayz]

this is mine ...

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[Pauline]

hey guys, tryin to view links that people put on here but its tellin me i cant any ideas why?

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[playdayz]

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oh right thanks pauline x