The document provides an overview of health and safety policies and procedures for staff at a school. It covers workers' rights and responsibilities, hazards in the workplace, reporting injuries, emergency procedures including fire drills and lockdowns, working alone, building security including alarm codes, and the roles of the joint health and safety committee. Staff are expected to follow safety protocols, report any incidents or injuries, and receive training on emergency response.

1. Presented by the JHSC
Murray Shunter, Carla DeBiasio, Marcello Piro, Tamara Malloff

2. Table of Contents
1. Workers’ Rights & Responsibilities
2. Hazards in the Workplace
3. Working Alone or in Isolation
4. Alarm Codes & Building Security
5. Personal Protective Equipment
6. First Aid
7. Emergency Procedures
8. Fire Stations
9. Worker’s Rights
10. Reporting Incidents or injuries
11. Joint Health & Safety Committee (JHSC)
12. Health and Safety Information

3. Worker’s Rights & Responsibilities
The Worker’s Compensation Act provides four basic rights
1. The right to know
2. The right to participate
3. The right to refuse unsafe work
4. The right to no discrimination
“Health and Safety is Everyone’s Responsibility”

5. Hazards in the Workplace
The following are covered under Worksafe BC:
1. Coaching, Band, Field Trips
2. Schoolwide activities that take place during the day
The following are not covered under Worksafe BC:
1. Intramurals with non-PE staff
2. Activities that take place at lunch or afterschool that are not part of the
items covered above
Be Proactive:
• When on a curricular field trip, ensure you have a checklist of the
students, including those with medical issues (eg./ epipen)
• Ensure you have adequate supervision and a cellphone on hand
• Permission forms are not required for curricular trips during the day,
unless it’s an organization that is sponsoring the activity
• Extra-curricular field trips require a permission form (can have a blanket
permission form with dates)
• Ensure you have your current Driver’s Abstract and submit to Office
before driving students

7. Reporting an Injury
If an injury to yourself takes place either at the workplace, or off-site during the
course of your normal duties, then do the following:
1. Report to the first aid attendant (Marie-Michele Gagnon or Rick Boutilier)
2. Report to your site administrator as soon as possible to complete a claim
3. Report to the Health and Safety Rep (Murray Shunter)
4. Complete a WCB 6A Form to report to your employer
5. See your doctor
6. Call WorksafeBC Teleclaim 1-888-WORKERS
Be Proactive:
• Ensure you take safety measures when working in areas where physical
(slips, falls, machinery/equipment) or chemical (cleaning, fluids) hazards
may exist
• Know the right lifting techniques and avoid ergonomic hazards
• When in doubt, call or ask for help beforehand
Student Injuries:
• Report to Office—depending on severity, a phone call home is made
• If a trip to emergency is warranted, Tina will print a BCESIS medical
printout
• Injuries need to be reported to SPS through Tina as soon as possible

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Do any of your students have a Safety Plan?
Do any of your students have a Behaviour Plan?
Know and follow the protocols in your students’ Plans.
Have a proactive, progressive discipline plan and set of classroom
routines/expectations posted, visible, and taught/communicated to
students
When a student is acting out or is posing a threat in class, have
everyone in class quietly and quickly exit the class. Call your
Administrator immediately, and complete a Violent Threat Report.
Do not escalate any oppositionally defiant behaviour through
shouting, yelling, or verbal threats.
Report any violent incidents to your Administration.
Be proactive and attend MANDT training if you are part of the
Student Services Team (counsellors, Case Managers, LATs, EAs)

10. OH&S Regulation, Section 3.12
The Right to Refusal of Unsafe Work
“A person must not carry out or cause to be carried out
any work process or operate or cause to be operated
any tool, appliance, or equipment if that person has
reasonable cause to believe that to do so would create
and undue hazard to the health and
safety of any person”

12. Alarm Codes and Building Security
1. There are four alarm stations in our building.
2. Make sure you have been trained in how to set the alarm by Administration or
by our Custodian.
3. A four digit personal passcode should be provided to you
4. Ensure you sign in when coming in after hours into the building
5. Before leaving, put on an announcement on the Office PA, and wait for a
couple of minutes before arming the system.
6. If you accidentally set off the alarm, call the Nelson Fire Dept and provide your
name and personal code
7. On PROD days, and any time when you are on your own, the building exits
must be secured.
8. All visitors are required to report to the Office—parents may wait until break to
see their child, unless it’s an emergency, and a staff member accompanies
them to the class

14. Working Alone
Assistance that is readily available
A worker is considered to be working alone or in isolation when he or she does
not have assistance that is readily available in case of emergency, injury, or ill
health. In order to determine whether or not assistance is readily available, the
following conditions should be considered:
1. Presence of others: Are other people in the vicinity?
2. Awareness: Will other persons capable of providing assistance be aware of the
worker's need?
3. Willingness: Is it reasonable to expect those other persons will provide
assistance?
4. Timeliness: Will assistance be provided within a reasonable period of time?
If you are working alone, you must:

16. Emergency Procedures
Fire Drills
• There are Fire Drill Handbooks hanging in every room—grab yours on the way out
• The school is required to conduct one scheduled and one unscheduled fire drill
• Make sure you understand and follow the fire drill protocols and train your
students to do the same
Evacuations
• Evacuations are similar to Fire Drill exits
• In the case of danger, students will be evacuated to South Nelson School
Lock Downs
• Lock down training is provided annually for staff and students
• A practice lock down takes place once during the year with the support of the
NCP
• No cell phones or school contact via phone is permitted during a lock down
• A special announcement will be made over the PA for lock downs
*In the event of a school wide emergency during off hours, the Staff Phone Tree will
take effect.