Schools of the future to keep their fingers!
The Department for Children, Schools and Families has just released a publication to schools specifying that all doors in the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme should be fitted with anti-finger trapping devices to prevent any future finger trapping accidents from occurring.*
The Government’s publication, Standard Specifications, Layouts and Dimensions (SSLD) – Internal doorsets in schools: produced to guide the BSF programme specifies that there is a risk of fingers becoming trapped in doors in educational buildings. The publication states that this risk should be eradicated by the fitting of finger guards to all doors where feasible.
According to RoSPA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents) 40,000 children a year seriously crush their fingers in doors; 1,500 of these children will require some form of reconstructive surgery. Each case of a finger trapping accident costs the NHS an estimated £2,500 per patient! Schools are also at risk with the rise of the claims culture in Britain, where compensation claims are averaging at around £12,000 per finger trap case. **
Recently in Buckinghamshire, the Buckinghamshire Local Education Authority (LEA) have issued a warning to all school supervisors via the school bulletin stating that there have been 2 serious cases of finger trapping accidents involving pupils in the last 12 months, and schools are advised to invest in anti-finger trapping devices to prevent any further claims for being made to the LEA.
Offering its award winning anti-finger-trapping devices, Fingershield Safety (UK) – founded in 1999 by entrepreneur Frank Garvey – offers a free door risk assessment survey for any educational establishment, conducted by our highly trained and CRB checked door safety surveyors. Fingershield is also happy to provide a free 10 year warranty on all of its Fingershield door safety products. It is already in 6,000 schools nationwide.
Company spokesman Chris Higgins said: ‘With such a large proportion of children suffering the pain and distress of finger trapping, I am please that the Department for Children, Schools and Families has seen this risk and specified a solution in their Building Schools for the Future project. This should hopefully mean that there will be less accidents in the future.’
What are YOUR thoughts of the building schools for the future programme, have you had any involvement in it? Please feel free to place a comment on your views.
* Publication: Standard Specifications, Layouts and Dimensions 7, Internal doorsets in schools (2008) ISBN 978-1-84775-088-4
** Source: Morton Michel Insurance
The Government’s publication, Standard Specifications, Layouts and Dimensions (SSLD) – Internal doorsets in schools: produced to guide the BSF programme specifies that there is a risk of fingers becoming trapped in doors in educational buildings. The publication states that this risk should be eradicated by the fitting of finger guards to all doors where feasible.
According to RoSPA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents) 40,000 children a year seriously crush their fingers in doors; 1,500 of these children will require some form of reconstructive surgery. Each case of a finger trapping accident costs the NHS an estimated £2,500 per patient! Schools are also at risk with the rise of the claims culture in Britain, where compensation claims are averaging at around £12,000 per finger trap case. **
Recently in Buckinghamshire, the Buckinghamshire Local Education Authority (LEA) have issued a warning to all school supervisors via the school bulletin stating that there have been 2 serious cases of finger trapping accidents involving pupils in the last 12 months, and schools are advised to invest in anti-finger trapping devices to prevent any further claims for being made to the LEA.
Offering its award winning anti-finger-trapping devices, Fingershield Safety (UK) – founded in 1999 by entrepreneur Frank Garvey – offers a free door risk assessment survey for any educational establishment, conducted by our highly trained and CRB checked door safety surveyors. Fingershield is also happy to provide a free 10 year warranty on all of its Fingershield door safety products. It is already in 6,000 schools nationwide.
Company spokesman Chris Higgins said: ‘With such a large proportion of children suffering the pain and distress of finger trapping, I am please that the Department for Children, Schools and Families has seen this risk and specified a solution in their Building Schools for the Future project. This should hopefully mean that there will be less accidents in the future.’
What are YOUR thoughts of the building schools for the future programme, have you had any involvement in it? Please feel free to place a comment on your views.
* Publication: Standard Specifications, Layouts and Dimensions 7, Internal doorsets in schools (2008) ISBN 978-1-84775-088-4
** Source: Morton Michel Insurance
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