Education Employers 9. The education employer can act as a placement organiser, usually through educational establishments such as schools and colleges, or can contract with a third party to organise placements for students on its behalf. Organisers arrange placements on behalf of education employers. An organiser might be a school or college, a local education authority or an independent placing agency e.g. an Education Business Partnership, a Careers Service or organisations such as the Trident Trust.
Providers are companies or other organisations which offer work experience placements.
Key players' duties under health and safety law 12. The key players have roles and responsibilities in ensuring, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety of students on work experience, including those students who find their own work experience placements. Under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, organisations involved in arranging placements have duties to manage the process so as not to put the health and safety of the students at risk. What they need to do will depend on the risks associated with the work experience, and the extent to which they can exercise control over those risks.