Health and safety risk inventory childcare

Before submitting an application for your facility to be registered in the National Childcare and Playgroup Register (LRKP), you must conduct a safety and health risk inventory. You check:

• Which risks the childcare entails;
• What precautionary measures have been taken to avoid endangering the children’s health;
• Whether any further measures are required.

You record the risk inventories in writing. After the start of your childcare organisation, you will conduct the safety and health risk inventory on a yearly basis. You report any accidents and the measures taken in response to those accidents. You must describe accidents and the measures taken pursuant to those accidents.

You are also required to draw up a safety action plan and a health action plan, in which you state what measures you will take at what time and what the impact of these measures will be. You report to your employees. In addition, you have to inform the parents and childminders about the risk inventories and action plans.

Online tools for conducting inventories

Childcare organisations and infant playrooms can use the Risk Monitor (Risicomonitor) tool, which enables you to conduct risk inventories and draft action plans online. The Risk Monitor also includes an accident/incident registration module. The Risk Monitor is only available in Dutch.

Childminding care
For childminding care organisations, the Childminding Safety and Health (Veilige en gezonde gastouderopvang) website offers an online, Dutch-language tool for conducting inventories.