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APPENDIX 1

Administrative Guide

First Aid

1.

In every school there shall be a first-aid box the contents of which shall be periodically checked, and replaced when necessary. In schools where

there are science laboratories and workshops, first-aid boxes shall contain materials for giving immediate treatment to burns, scalds, acid/alkali burns, shock and other injuries. Pupils should not be allowed to perform dangerous practical experiments and all reasonable precautions should be taken to guard

against accidents. Dangerous poisons shall be kept in a locked cupboard.

2.

At least two members of the staff of every school should be trained

in giving first-aid treatment.

Fire Precautions

3.

All schools, as required by the Director of Fire Services, shall be

equipped with fire extinguishers kept in easily accessible places and minor staff

shall be trained in the use of the extinguishers which should be properly

maintained and exchanged annually. Laboratories shall in addition be supplied

with buckets of sand and water.

4.

Fire drills, at which all pupils must leave the school building and

the roll be called, shall be held once a month, or otherwise as advised by the

Director of Fire Services and shall be noted in the school log book.

5

The responsibility for sounding a fire alarm in a school should not

be delegated to one individual. It should be the duty of any person discovering

or suspecting an outbreak of fire to give the alarm.

6.

Where a school has more than one fire alarm bell, arrangements should

be made to ensure that when an alarm is sounded on one it is immediately

relayed to all other alarm bells.

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Fire alarms and drills shall always include clerical, kitchen and

maintenance staff, as well as teachers and pupils.

Correspondence with the Education Department

8.

All correspondence should be addressed to the Director of Education

but may be sub-directed to the particular officer primarily concerned.

9.

Interviews with the Director or other officers of the Education

Department should wherever possible be arranged by appointment.

10.

Members of the staff of an aided secondary school should normally

correspond with the Education Department through the principal of the school.