On arrival, all visitors to a school (other than staff and students) should report to the administration building. Schools should require visitors to 'sign in and out' of the school and issue them official visitor identification. Identification should be worn at all times. Any person on school grounds without visitor identification should be referred to administration.
All schools will, at some time, engage contractors to carry out work at their sites. Contractors include people engaged to perform work who are not directly employed by the school e.g. QBuild. In many instances work processes will be carried out near classrooms, playgrounds or other areas occupied by students or staff while the school is in operation.
It is important that good lines of communication between the school and the contractor are established before work commences to ensure that health and safety issues associated with the work are managed.
Typical issues that schools will need to discuss with contractors prior to work starting include:
Principals and Managers have overall responsibility for their school or workplace. If Principals and Managers are concerned with work activities being undertaken these should be raised immediately with the contractor. In some cases schools may even need to ask contractors to cease work while advice is sought from the school Workplace Health and Safety Officer, Regional Facilities Manager and Regional Health and Safety Consultant.
All school staff need to be fully informed of any special arrangements and kept informed of changes that may impact on the routine school operations. Supervision of students who may be nearest to the work site is of particular importance.
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