Safety Management Plan For Schools

Today, the bigger question in front of us is “Are we doing enough to give our children a safe learning environment or are we still waiting for a wake up call?”. We have gone through the agony of losing young school children in natural and man made disasters inside and outside the school premises, many of which would have been averted by simple prevention, mitigation and preparedness measures.

Blueneilos recognize the very important role of schools in the community.  Through S-MAPS we try to encourage students to take up tasks which make them realize their importance as necessary stakeholders in the process of change. In this regard, it becomes essential to encourage, aware and involve children and teachers in school safety planning process to ensure their own safety from any unforeseen disaster in school environment.  The S-MAPS and DisMAN are prepared with a vision to make our institutions safe from any kind of hazards. S-MAPS and DisMAN are well structured, well documented system ensuring active involvement of  Teachers, Students and other  Members of Schools which are essential in order to develop a culture of safety in our schools.

Objective of S-MAPS is “to make schools a safer place for learning without any compromise on educational goals.” S-MAPS includes the following:

• School profile and geographical location
• Hazard, Risk and Vulnerability Assessment
• Operation Control
• Participation, Consultation and Communication
• Emergency preparedness and response plan
• Evaluation of compliance and audits.

1. Understanding and satisfying the requirements of the SMAPS standard
2. Monitoring the changes in the School Environment
3. Defining and deploying strategies towards making the school Safe
4. Managing all required process and relevant resources effectively and efficiently
5. Demonstrating confidence in its Employees, Parents, Students and Staff leading to increased motivation, commitment and involvement

This assessment tool uses nine maturity levels. Schools should review its performance
against specified criteria to identify current maturity level and determine its strength
and weakness. The nine maturity levels are

1. Infrastructure Safety
2. Play Ground Safety
3. Transportation Safety
4. Personal and Sex-ual Safety
5. Social and Emotional Safety
6. Disaster and Emergency Preparedness
7. Cyber Safety
8. Laboratory Safety
9. Food Safety

The certificate shall be issued to School once all the criteria comply with the scoring requirements. If the assessment score in any of the criteria less than 60 is not considered for certification. Based on the scoring the school may be certified under Silver, Gold, Diamond or Platinum. the validity of the certificate is for 3 years with one surveillance audit mid interval (i,e. after 18 Months)