1. An overview of School health and safety AT THE DESIGN STAGE
Jonathan Scopes
Samara Training Services
Tel:
Greetings
Thank yous

2. Imagine yourself as client or designer
What decisions are we making, or not making, that affect health and safety during:
construction
operation
maintenance
eventual demolition?
Taking a School as an example …
Construction – time frame allowed enough?
Operation – can deliveries take place while children in school?
Maintenance – can we access the kitchen ductwork easily?
Eventual demolition – have we left any hidden hazards?

3. Perimeter safety Security of entry Vehicle impact Buses, cars
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Security of entry
Vehicle impact
Buses, cars
Guard welfare

4. Perimeter safety Keeping pupils in Keeping others out
Stopping drugs crossing in
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5. Perimeter safety
Boundaries – should school look open or like a prison? Effect on mental health.
Security - getting in and out, is the school uniform enough to allow in children?
Pupil safety – gates, open or closed during normal operation of the school?
Guard house – window, toilet, and kettle/pantry? Guard welfare.

6. Arriving and Leaving Vehicle impact, one way, road crossings
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Vehicle impact, one way, road crossings

7. Arriving and Leaving A B Vehicle impact Staff parking Parents’ cars
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8. Arriving and Leaving – avoiding road traffic accidents
Traffic management and space, one way traffic route, turn right in and turn right out
Buses, parents’ cars, delivery collection of students, parking space while you ‘find your child’
Should car parking for staff be inside or outside the school gate?
Separate gate for deliveries OR no deliveries during peak student flows?
OR administrative controls – timings, etc.

9. Staff rooms and offices – access vs. security
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Parental access to meet staff, cameras

10. Staff rooms and offices – access vs. security
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Work area & meet pupils, hygiene eating area

11. Staff rooms and offices – access vs. security
Reception – an open area or in a closed room?
Head teacher room – through secretary’s room or direct into corridor?
Staff room – glass panel in door or private?
Staff room – rest or work place?
Shared tables or individual cubicles?
Glass toughened or normal?
All furniture – ergonomics issues

12. Managing students between classes
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Emergency exit widths, wheel chair users

13. Managing students between classes
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Heat issues - shade, water points

14. Managing students between classes
Are corridor and stair widths wide enough for two way student movement between classrooms?
Break time play area – indoors or outdoors? Shaded, slippery, sharp edges?
Could a wheelchair user access all the classrooms? Lifts, door widths, corridor widths etc.

15. Toilets Childs’ mental health Water in cubicles?
Managing drugs culture
Cameras
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16. Toilets Hygiene – can wash his hands Colours and wellbeing
Non-slip floors
Cameras?
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17. Toilets Layout – lines of sight from the corridor
Surface finishes – cleanable and non-slip
Drains – floor slopes, location of drains, covers
Storage of chemicals and cleaning equipment in a lockable cupboard or room.
Mop bucket emptying point – or just use a toilet?
Disabled access to toilets

18. Maintenance and cleaning work
Plug points – trips
Storage of chemicals
- burns
Change bulbs
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19. Maintenance and cleaning work
Safe access – falls, sharp edges, space
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Roof access – falls
Keeping children
off

20. Maintenance and cleaning work
In-house workers and contractors – rest room and toilets
Cleaning the windows especially atriums and upstairs rooms – e.g. tilt/turn, outside access?
AC ducts – access hatch location for cleaning
Maintaining the ACs – can you access the roof to replace a motor without hiring a crane?
Water tanks – can they be accessed for cleaning
Access to change all light bulbs?

21. Kitchens and canteens Hygiene requires cleaning access
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22. Kitchens and canteens Hygiene, temperature control, ventilation
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Hygiene, temperature control, ventilation

23. Kitchens and canteens Queue space, cleaner equipment storage
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Queue space, cleaner equipment storage
Hygiene – hand wash,
Food temperature controls and storage

24. Kitchens and canteens Layout for food flow
Hand wash, towel near entrance and where food is prepared
Surface finishes (non-slip) and connections between floor and wall, etc.
Duct work cleaning and access,
Changing light bulbs – are they over hot equipment? Space for ladder?
Drains – suitable location?
Grease traps accessible?

25. Emergency facilities
Choice of furniture – sharp edges, earth quake, ergonomics
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Stair widths
Assembly points

26. Emergency facilities
False alarms – students (break glass type and CCTV coverage), dust, wrong selection.
Getting everyone out – routes and distances.
Fire doors held open, close if alarms sounds?
Security of external fire doors – contact plates, CCTV?
Assembly points – space, shade, water points
First aid room – location and layout
Medical emergency ambulance route
Refuge for disabled people

27. Thank you

28. An overview of School health and safety AT THE DESIGN STAGE
Jonathan Scopes
Samara Training Services
Tel:
Greetings
Thank yous