Health and Safety Plans

School authorities and schools demonstrate due diligence by developing health and safety plans to meet legislative requirements. To ensure that there is an effective health and safety plan in place requires the cooperation and support of all those responsible for the learning environment, implementation of programs of study, and delivery of instruction, including the education community, government departments, and agencies that have responsibility for various aspects of health and safety.

Elements of a health and safety plan include

• establishing clearly defined policies, practices, and procedures
• monitoring to ensure that safe policies, practices, and procedures are being followed
• communicating information on issues related to health and safety
• auditing/inspecting the learning environment
• training in issues related to health and safety
• implementing the eight elements of a health and safety management system

For more information about the eight elements of a health and safety management system, visit Alberta Labour: Health and Safety Management Systems.

The establishment of effective CTS health and safety plans requires that attention from personal, professional, and economic perspectives is given to

• facilities, tools, equipment, and materials
• instructional planning
• classroom management
• appropriate training needs of both CTS teachers and students
• due diligence

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