Activity Assessed:Grass Sledging / Date risk assessment undertaken: 17/11/2016
Benefit of the Activity:
  • Grass sledging can be a perceptively challenging activity which could lead to expansion of comfort zones.
  • The activity is energetic and exhilarating a can be a great new experience.
Department of Education Key Stage 2-4 National Curriculum: ‘Take part in outdoor and adventurous activities which present intellectual and physical challenges and be encouraged to work in a team, building on trust and developing skills to solve problems, either individually or as a group’.
Scouts Values: Integrity, Respect, Care, Belief and Co-operation
Scout Methods: Enjoy what you are doing and have fun, take part in activities indoors and outdoors, learn by doing, share in spiritual reflection, take responsibility and make choices, undertaking new and challenging activities, make and live by their promise.
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Hazard / Controlled Risk / Who’s at risk / Control / Further action
Equipment failure / Low / Participants / Equipment is checked regularly. / Servicing and maintenance are conducted regularly.
Falls from Sledge / Low / Participants / Clear rules are to be set. Usage limited to designated location. PPE provided. / Leader’s supervision required.
Crash, collision with other user or sledge tipping over. / Low / Participants & spectators / Sledges only to be used in purpose built track. Sledging tracks are designed to slow down and stop sledges automatically at end of track. / Rules and instructions are to briefed prior activity.
Lifting Injury / Low / Participants / Participants to be instructed on carry lifting and carrying technique. / Supervision of participants.
Crush injury / Low / Participants / Participants warned of hazard and instructed on correct use of equipment. / Supervision of participants.
Competency needed: / Site specific training notes / Competency assessor: / Craig Scampton- Assistant Manager
Centre Manager Signature: / Jon Jennings / Date: / 17/11/2016
Broadstone Warren / Broadstone Warren Activity Centre, Lewes Road, Forest Row, East Sussex, RH18 5JS Tel: 01342 822573Email: / Last editor: J. Jennings
Last reviewed: 27/02/2018
Next review:27/02/2019