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    This document provides guidance for schools on safety and preparedness for the 2022 Brigada Eskwela in the Philippines. It outlines recommended activities to contribute to safer school facilities such as repairing infrastructure, ensuring evacuation routes are clear, and securing hazardous materials. Schools should also establish emergency contact lists, first aid supplies, and learner identification cards. Additionally, schools are advised to educate students on risk reduction and resilience through identifying storage areas for vital records and equipment.

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    This document provides guidance for schools on safety and preparedness for the 2022 Brigada Eskwela in the Philippines. It outlines recommended activities to contribute to safer school facilities such as repairing infrastructure, ensuring evacuation routes are clear, and securing hazardous materials. Schools should also establish emergency contact lists, first aid supplies, and learner identification cards. Additionally, schools are advised to educate students on risk reduction and resilience through identifying storage areas for vital records and equipment.

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    BRIGADA ESKWELA SCHOOL SAFETY AND PREPAREDNESS GUIDE

    In view of the implementation of the 2022 Brigada Eskwela, this School Safety and Preparedness
    Guide is issued to provide guidance to schools and education partners in ensuring the safety
    and preparedness of our learners and personnel before, during, and after emergencies.
    Enumerated below is a list of recommended activities that may contribute to a safer school.
    School Heads need to identify which of those listed below are most appropriate and important
    for their schools. The School Head may also identify other measures that may add up to this list.

    I. SAFE LEARNING FACILITIES

    1. Facilitate the assessment of school building structure and electrical wiring and make
    necessary repairs and/or upgrades to prevent unnecessary incidents.
    2. Repair minor classroom damages such as broken windows, doors, blackboard, roofs and
    other furniture, etc.
    3. Install appropriate and available fire suppression, including fire extinguishers, water
    source and relevant indigenous materials.
    4. Ensure that corridors and pathways are unobstructed and that all sharp, protruding
    objects which may cause harm to learners are removed.
    5. Clean and clear drainage to prevent clogging. Cover drainage canals and provide
    necessary warnings.
    6. Cordon off and post safety signage for on-going construction, unfinished, damaged and
    condemned buildings.
    7. Secure cabinets and drawers and ensure that heavy objects are below head level.
    8. Post safety measures to be observed in laboratories, and workshops, and other facilities
    requiring the same.
    9. Prepare an evacuation/exit plan and post directional signage on every floor of the
    building.
    10. Identify evacuation areas and classrooms that may be used as temporary shelters during
    disasters and emergencies.
    11. Prune trees to avoid entanglement from electrical wirings and avoid potential harm to
    life and property.

    II. SCHOOL DISASTER MANAGEMENT

    1. Post a directory of emergency contact numbers of relevant government agencies and


    officers in various high traffic areas of the school.
    2. Establish and maintain early warning mechanisms in the school.
    3. Equip school with first aid kits, flashlights, megaphones, and other supplies necessary in
    cases of emergency. Ensure that these items are highly accessible and can be easily
    located.
    4. Identify alternative sources and/or maintain supply of drinking water within the school.
    5. Ensure that learners, teachers, and personnel have identification cards with relevant
    information.
    6. Create database of learners with the contact details of their immediate family
    members/relatives/guardians.
    7. Secure and safely store vital school records.
    8. Coordinate with barangay officials on pedestrian safety of learners.
    9. Document accidents experienced by learners and personnel within the school to improve
    prevention and mitigation measures.

    III. RISK REDUCTION AND RESILIENCE EDUCATION

    1. Identify a storage area for safekeeping of vital schools records, textbooks, teaching
    manuals, computers, and other school equipment.

    References:

    International Finance Corporation (no date) Disaster and Emergency Preparedness Guidance for Schools, (IFC
    World Bank).

    Department of Education (2015 DRRM in Basic Education Framework PowerPoint p rese ntation)

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