ESN
ESN Membership and the SafetyHub
Resourcing safer work and learning in schools
ESN membership enables and supports school safety action and compliance with reduced burden on staff
The safety challenge for schools
Most schools know the need for safety, and the difficulty of making it practice, when:
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Demands and pressures on leaders and staff are high
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Staff workload and stress are mounting and capacity is full
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Safety and wellbeing risks are complex or newly emerging
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Safety policies are in place but not always implemented
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Leaders and staff lack needed support and resources
How ESN membership helps
Through the ESN SafetyHub and services, working uniquely for schools, ESN membership:
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Gives leaders and staff practical help to fulfil safety duties
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Increases safety action capacity, and reduces action load
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Enables improved risk management skills and knowledge
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Equips schools and staff with policy implementation tools
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Provides support and resources to identify and reduce gaps
Informed by schools and developed for schools, ESN services are designed to help school leaders and staff:
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Understand and implement their safety responsibilities with less burden on their time and workload
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Apply safety directions with support from relevant action tools, safety information and school sector know-how
through the ESN SafetyHub
Safety Management Centre
Draw from a wealth of school-specific health, safety and wellbeing resources, including:
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Gap checks, policies, plans, procedures and action tools
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School risk 'hotspot' risk and safety management packages
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Consultation support and action tools
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Psychosocial safety management resources
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Work and activity risk analysis and management tools
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Incident response tools
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Emergency management tools
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Audit and improvement tools
These resources help translate safety intentions, directions and duties into practical action, supporting safety policy and system implementation.
Safety Training Centre
Provide school-specific, peer-reviewed online safety training programs, videos and factsheets:
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Informed by schools, statutory requirements and trainee feedback
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For school staff and leaders, and for students in some learning contexts
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On demand, online, to suit staff schedules and workloads
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Spanning safety inductions, specific risks, and safety governance
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Verifying online training completions
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Rated by trainees on average above 4 out of 5 for quality, clarity, usefulness and learning experience.
Staff learning through this training helps build school safety capabilities across roles and responsibility levels.
Safety Update Centre
Help school and safety leaders stay informed, prepared and aware of current education safety issues and requirements, with notifications of:
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Relevant school safety news and alerts
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Legal cases involving school safety breaches, and school risk-based case sets highlighting lessons to be learned
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Emerging issues and risks likely to impact school safety
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Regulatory changes likely to impact the school's safety governance
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School safety e-News bulletins direct to inbox
These services support school leaders’ due diligence and informed, proactive safety decision-making.
The SafetyHub and its services are provided to members' nominated safety and leadership team personnel, and can be extended collectively to school staff as members may choose. More personalised services are provided to independent schools' designated ESN contact personnel at school level, and to school systems' designated ESN contact personnel at system administration level.
Supporting implementation across key safety management aspects
Why schools value ESN membership
Designed for schools
Drawing on school and specialist experience provides practical support that is geared to school realities.
Member-informed and focused
SafetyHub tools, packages, programs and services evolve in response to school needs, emerging risks and issues
Practical and readily applicable
Using fit-for-purpose action tools and resources reduces staff effort and error when safety actions are needed.
Mindful of leaders and staff
Helps leaders stay informed, supports staff safety capability, and gives frontline staff access to practical help and guidance.
Responsive ESN service
Ability to harness ESN effort for school benefit adds valuable capacity to school safety teams at minimal cost
Enhancement for existing systems
Including practical action resources from ESN in existing school safety systems helps system implementation and effectiveness