About This Site
Welcome to Employer Guidance for the Management of Outdoor Learning, Off-Site Visits, and Learning Outside the Classroom.
This guidance has been written for employers to adopt as their policy, and guidance for their staff to use. Employers who adopt this guidance should have a policy document that directs staff to use this guidance, and sets out their specific arrangements for staff training, access to advice, notification or approval of visits, and monitoring. Advice about these issues is included in this guidance.
Employees should be sure that their employer has adopted this guidance before using this site.
Using this Site
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Updates
We are committed to continually improving this website and the guidance it contains. Whenever we add or amend documents, we will say so in the “Updated Documents” page
Red Tape
None of this guidance constitutes red tape.
Employer Guidance is about how to plan your visit or activity so that those taking part enjoy a valuable learning experience where the risks are properly managed. It is not about form filling for form filling’s sake. Where the guidance recommends record keeping, this is to help with your planning and/or audit trails.
The guidance can also help employers to simplify their systems and reduce red tape.