Meet Curriculum Requirements

The Australian Curriculum for Science (Version 9) requires students to take an increasingly active role in considering safety and assessing risk in investigations as they progress from Year 7 to Year 12: recognising and managing risks from Year 7, developing and following risk assessments from Year 9 and conducting risk assessments in Years 11 and 12. Read more about Australian curriculum requirements.

Students doing IB or extended investigations / depth studies are also required to conduct risk assessments for their own student-designed experiments.

Benefits for Students and Staff

Assessing risks and putting in control measures are important skills that will help students throughout their lives and careers. Working hands on with Student RiskAssess is an excellent way for them to learn.

Student RiskAssess helps teachers to easily manage student experiments and risk assessments plus provide feedback to students. It also aids science technologists to efficiently compile order requests.

Simple to Use

Student RiskAssess is user-friendly and includes online help screens. Students pick it up very quickly, and staff find it easy to use as it is so similar to Staff RiskAssess.

Student RiskAssess has a separate login, so that students do not have access to risk assessments created by teachers and science technologists in Staff RiskAssess.

Tried and Tested

More than 600 schools are now using Student RiskAssess and over 750,000 risk assessments have been performed.

Manage Large Numbers of Pracs with Ease

The "Multiple Prac Management" system in Student RiskAssess allows teachers and science technologists to efficiently review, provide feedback and sign off on large numbers of student pracs in one go. It is a huge time saver when managing large numbers of student pracs.

Classroom & Training Resources

Student RiskAssess includes a fast moving classroom video for introducing students to the system and doing risk assessments, plus a worksheet quiz (with answers for the teacher) and the option to do a Blooket for a more interactive review. There is also a more detailed step-by-step video with its own quiz. You can access the resources here.

Also there is a training video for staff, showing the tools built into the system for managing and reviewing student work.

Student Assessment

Student RiskAssess includes an optional PIN feature on each risk assessment. This allows a student to create a risk assessment that is PIN-protected and can only be viewed by staff and that particular student. This stops copying and allows student evaluation.

Unlimited Access from Classroom or Home

Unlimited numbers of students and staff can access Student RiskAssess at the same time. Student RiskAssess can be used in the classroom on laptops, iPads and smart phones. Students and staff can access Student RiskAssess from home or from any location with an internet connection.