Health and Safety, Workplace and Emergency Management
Links to Worksafe at Schools, pandemic planning, emergency management and headlice information.
In this section
- Pandemic preparation
- Pandemic planning and implementation information for early childhood centres (ECEs) and schools
- Promoting healthy lifestyles
- This section provides resources to support schools and early childhood services in promoting healthy food and nutrition
- Measles outbreaks information from Ministry of Health
- Information about what to do if measles happens at your school or ECE
- Worksafe at Schools: Creating a Health and Safety Framework for Schools
- Outlines the requirements for the Board of Trustees and Principal to develop a policy on health and safety within the school
- Worksafe at Schools - Emergency Management Plan
- This section provides templates for developing plans for reacting to emergency situations including fire, floods, earthquakes, chemical spills, gas leaks, volcanic eruptions, bomb or arson threats, armed intruders, and missing children
- Headlice and Nits: A Guide for School Communities
- It is only recently that the western world has been relatively free of headlice. No one to date has found a sure-fire way of totally eradicating headlice in a community
- HPV Immunisation Programme
- Planning is well underway for the school-based phase of the HPV (human papillomavirus) immunisation programme
- Worksafe at Schools - Information and Training
- Provides guidance on the types of information and training that need to be considered for staff
- Worksafe at Schools - Injury and Incident Reporting
- Information for recording incidents and injuries
- Worksafe at Schools - Protection of Staff, Students, Visitors and Contractors
- Outlines the roles and responsibilities of contractors and visitors to schools
- Safe Travel for Students with Special Education School Transport Assistance
- Provides advice and guidance for schools, caregivers and other school transport stakeholders on identifying and supporting a student's home to school travel needs
- Worksafe at Schools - Staff Participation in Health and Safety Management
- A process for consulting with staff on health and safety matters and establishing a Health and Safety Committee
- Worksafe at Schools - Toolkit 7a - Hazard Registers
- A list of downloadable Hazard Registers & Control Plans that can be used to identify and control hazards in schools
- Worksafe at Schools - Toolkits
- A list of the various Worksafe at Schools Toolkits