fire drills in primary schools

20Tommy · 09-01-2011 4:13pm #1

Must Primary schools run fire drills?
If so how many should be run?

byhookorbycrook · 09-01-2011 9:49pm

We have two/three a year.We do one without the alarm the first time with the infants,one we expect and one we are not expecting. I would presume a school would have a drill as part of their health and safety policy.

E.T. · 10-01-2011 7:40pm

byhookorbycrook, do you know whose responsibility it is to schedule fire drills - principal or BOM?

byhookorbycrook · 10-01-2011 9:29pm

In our school, we have a health and safety officer, as part of her post,she takes it on(very well!)

E.T. · 11-01-2011 7:32pm

Ha! We don't have any posts anymore - postholders retired over the last few years so none left!

byhookorbycrook · 11-01-2011 9:37pm

Just shows how silly the moratorium is. :mad:

upinthesky · 13-01-2011 10:45pm

i was a pre school teacher and we had to do one every month

lottpaul · 15-01-2011 12:10am

Regardless of posts, moratorium etc every staff must have a H&S representative as must every BOM. Re fire drills we have 3 per annum, one with warning for everyone, one with staff warning only, and one with no warning at all.
(Mind you, we're a mid 1970s, single storey building and the local fire officers advice on a recent visit was that if we ever had a real fire we should open the windows and exit that way

but should continue with drills as good social training in the event of fires in other situations etc - was left scratching my head after that one)

fire drills in primary schools

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