24 precautionary measures to ensure safety in the environment of educational institutions

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The guide obligates students to attend exams in educational institutions.

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The precautionary measures to prevent the spread of the Corona virus, approved by the competent authorities, oblige the departments of educational facilities to develop an “operational plan for the readiness of the facility for a safe return”, with the formation of a working group called the “Health and Safety Committee”, to follow up on the application of the precautionary requirements and procedures recommended by the authorities. competent.

This came in the guide to protocols and procedures for operating educational facilities (public and private schools and higher education institutions) at the state level, during the “Corona” pandemic, which stressed the implementation of 24 precautionary measures to ensure safety in the environment of educational facilities, and limit the spread of the “Corona” virus, among them. Nine procedures in student and employee dormitories attached to educational facilities.

The guide stressed the need to develop a vision for all academic subjects, and determine how to teach them if the hybrid learning method is used, with an emphasis on the mandatory attendance of students for exams in educational institutions, calling for the commitment of all traveling students to apply all requirements specified by the competent authorities, including isolation. Self-employment and international examinations, as well as the need to follow up attendance records and establish clear procedures for monitoring absent students to determine the reasons for absence on the same day, and to take isolation procedures and trace contacts.

Among these measures, ensuring that there is sufficient ventilation when using cleaning and sterilization products to prevent the leakage of toxic fumes, ensuring that air conditioning systems work properly, and installing plastic barriers in areas where it is difficult to maintain a distance of one meter between every two people, In addition to preventing the use of air dryers, because of the possibility of air circulation and the possibility of transmitting diseases.

The procedures manual stressed the provision of sterilizers at the entrances to educational facilities, and places for sterilizing hands must contain a “sterilizing gel” with an alcohol content of between 70% and 80%, and to ensure that classrooms, laboratories and learning resources are continuously sterilized, and sterilization dates and personnel responsible for it are set within a schedule. Announced, in addition to training educational cadres and security and safety officers in educational facilities to supervise sterilization operations.

The guide, which witnessed comprehensive modifications to achieve the environment and safety system in educational facilities, to restart them at the beginning of the next academic year (2021/2022), and finally published by the Ministry of Education, on its website, added that the redistribution of students in housing In accordance with the standards of social distancing and safe distances, not allowing mixing and gathering of students, limiting movement between floors, and committing to providing sterilizers, means of hand washing, masks and gloves in the necessary places for the use of students and workers.

The guide also stressed the need to manage attendance records, visitor records, apply thermal scanning at the entrances to the educational facility, and monitor disease symptoms that may appear on students or workers for early detection of infected or suspected cases to limit the spread of infection, with a clear mechanism for washing and cleaning covers The beds are safe, with a separate isolation path to wash and clean the bedding and clothes of people placed in quarantine.

Student movement management plan

The Emirates Foundation for School Education confirmed that it has adopted an integrated operational plan to manage the movement of students in government schools at the state level, taking into account their safety and at the same time allowing them to enjoy the facilities of their schools, calling on everyone from students' parents, teachers, school administrators and community members to unite for a safe beginning of the year. scholastic.

The Foundation indicated that the education system implemented in the new school year 2021-2022 will be "present" in schools, pointing out that the distance education system in the new academic year will remain an option available to the student's guardian if he wishes to do so.

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