Health and Safety Information

In 2009, Chester Zoo was awarded the Learning Outside the Classroom Quality Badge which enables us to be instantly recognised and trusted by schools and Local Education Authorities as providing high quality learning experiences in a safe environment.

One of the ‘quality indicators’ we had to meet to receive the award was ‘managing risk effectively’.  We know that all schools have to carry out a Risk Assessment before taking pupils on a trip and to make things easier for you we have put together comprehensive Health and Safety information which will assist you in completing this so you can be reassured that Chester Zoo is a safe learning environment.

Click here to download the Health and Safety Information.

To assist in maintaining a safe and comfortable environment for all our visitors we do request that all pupils and students are adequately supervised and for this purpose we admit a quota of supervising adults free of charge (see Prices and Payments  for ratios).

Of course, as well as our visitors we have the welfare of our animal collection to look after too!  All our animals are on carefully prepared and balanced diets and we would ask you to remind your students not to feed them as it could lead to the animals becoming ill.

Please ensure also that students are supervised when visiting the Fruit Bat Forest (free flying bats), as unaccompanied students are not allowed into the exhibit.