Keep the benefit visible
Record why the experience matters alongside the real risks and proportionate controls, rather than treating risk paperwork as a reason to remove worthwhile challenge.
Benefits, risks and controls in context
Forest School risk-benefit assessments, connected to your sessions
Oakline is Forest School risk-benefit assessment software that keeps the assessment with the actual session, so staff and parents see the right information at the right point in the workflow. Providers can attach an optional RBA while creating or editing a session and keep its intended benefits, identified risks and proportionate control measures in context.
Guides and feature details
Continue with the exact workflow
Use the Help Centre for step-by-step guidance or check the feature matrix for current availability and conditions.
Designed around the work
Less reconciliation, more confidence in the day
Oakline keeps the customer journey and the provider workflow connected from the first booking through to session delivery and reporting.
Attach it to the right session
The assessment belongs to one Oakline session, so staff and families can open the context relevant to the programme they are viewing.
Give people a clear reference
Administrators maintain the RBA, staff open a read-only version from the register, and parents can review a parent-friendly version during booking.
One connected workflow
Built for the way outdoor providers actually operate
Create it with the session
Risk-benefit assessment is optional. When creating or editing a session, an administrator can select Add risk-benefit assessment and record the title, activity context, site notes, intended benefits, identified risks, who may be affected, control measures, residual risk, additional notes, preparer and last-reviewed date.
Reuse a template
Save up to five reusable RBA templates and manage them from Settings, or save the current session's RBA as a new template without leaving the session form. Loading a template fills the RBA fields in one step, ready to adjust for that session.
Bring it into field preparation
When an RBA exists, the session register shows an RBA button. Authenticated staff can open a focused, read-only view without receiving unrelated administration controls. Current RBA access requires an internet connection.
Set expectations before booking
A Risk-benefit assessment link appears after the public session description when that bookable session has an RBA. Parents can read the assessment without seeing database identifiers or edit controls.
Keep the operational workflow connected
Oakline keeps bookings, child and family records, staff access, the session register and risk-benefit information connected to the session being delivered, rather than storing the RBA as an unrelated generic form.
Review as practice changes
Use the prepared-by and last-reviewed fields to make ownership visible. Providers remain responsible for reviewing the assessment when the activity, site, participants, equipment, weather context or professional guidance changes.
Included capabilities
Practical tools, kept in context
- Optional per-session RBA
- Up to five reusable RBA templates
- Intended benefits and identified risks
- Control measures and residual risk
- Prepared-by and review details
- Read-only staff register access
- Parent view during booking
Questions, answered
What providers usually ask
Does Oakline support Forest School risk-benefit assessments?
Yes. An administrator can attach one structured RBA to a specific session and maintain it through the session create or edit workflow.
Can I add a risk-benefit assessment to a session?
Yes. The administrator can enable the optional RBA section while creating a session or add and edit it later from that session's settings.
Can staff view the RBA from the register?
Yes. When the session has an RBA, authenticated provider and staff users see an RBA button on the session register and can open a read-only, mobile-friendly view.
Can parents see the risk-benefit assessment before booking?
Yes. When a publicly bookable session has an RBA, Oakline shows a Risk-benefit assessment link after the session description in the booking flow. Additional notes remain staff-only unless an administrator explicitly chooses to share them.
What fields are included in Oakline's RBA?
The current RBA includes a title, activity or context, location or site notes, intended benefits, identified risks, who may be affected, control measures, optional residual risk level, additional notes, prepared by and last reviewed.
Is the RBA optional for each session?
Yes. The provider decides whether to attach an RBA to each session. Oakline does not require every session to have one.
Does Oakline support reusable RBA templates?
Yes. A provider can save up to five reusable RBA templates, manage them from Settings, and load one into any session's RBA in one step, or save a session's current RBA as a new template.
Does Oakline support dynamic risk notes?
Not currently. Oakline stores the session-specific RBA supplied by the provider, but it does not currently provide a separate dynamic risk-notes workflow.
Does the Oakline RBA work offline?
Not currently. Creating, editing and opening the RBA requires connectivity. Providers should keep their own field procedures and contingency arrangements appropriate to the setting.
Does an RBA replace daily, site or dynamic risk assessment?
No. Oakline records the session-specific assessment supplied by the provider. It does not replace competent judgement, a site assessment, daily checks, dynamic assessment, emergency planning, staff briefings or any duty that applies to the provider.
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