EduTrips is a great way for Schools and Colleges to comply with the BSI Standard BS8848, as well save time and money. Read below to see how the BS8848 standard can be beneficial for you.
Created by leading professionals to raise quality and health and safety standards of trips, BS 8848 is the is a British Standard that has been demand led to provide a specification for the provision of visits, fieldwork, expeditions and adventurous activities, outside the United Kingdom.
The British Standards Institution (BSI) surveyed parents across Britain and found that parents had many concerns about their children participating in educational visits abroad and that they wanted a national safety standard to be established. It found that:
This British Standard sets out requirements for the operational management, including safety, of all ventures outside the United Kingdom. The objective is to set out in clear, unambiguous language the actions and associated responsibilities essential to the provision of a risk-based safety management system for adventurous activities.
This British Standard specifies requirements for the provision of visits, fieldwork, expeditions and adventurous activities undertaken for educational, research, training or recreational purposes outside the United Kingdom.
It applies to ventures:
The eduTrips is based on the principles of BS 8848 which includes:
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