School Safety Essentials for Staff
Health and safety for teachers, paraprofessionals, custodians, office and food service staff and principals, following the invented Riverbend Public Schools in Minnesota: the hazards school staff face, rights and duties under MNOSHA including the right to refuse imminently dangerous work, finding, rating and controlling hazards, slips, trips and falls, lifting and student transfers, HazCom and cleaning products, indoor air, mold, asbestos under AHERA and lead, custodial work, ladders and bloodborne pathogens, workplace violence and behavior intervention plans, harassment, stress, noise, voice strain and fatigue, reporting and recordkeeping, and safety committees, the AWAIR program, return to work and a yearly safety plan.
HSE-360 12 lessons · 4 h 18 min
Offered by HSM University · Safety Training
This is the American version of this course. See the Canadian version.
What you'll learn
- Describe the main groups of hazards school staff face and why schools are an unusual workplace for health and safety.
- Explain the rights and duties of school districts, supervisors and staff under Minnesota's occupational safety and health law, including the right to refuse imminently dangerous work.
- Find hazards through inspections, staff reports and investigations, rate them by likelihood and severity, and choose controls using the hierarchy of controls.
- Prevent slips, trips and falls at entrances, outside, in classrooms, gyms, stages and playgrounds.
- Reduce the risk of musculoskeletal injury from lifting, student transfers, kneeling, carts and computer work.
- Use HazCom labels, safety data sheets and training to work safely with cleaning products, lab chemicals and other hazardous products, and respond to spills and exposures.
- Recognize and report indoor air quality, mold, asbestos, lead and temperature problems in school buildings.
- Work safely with floor machines, electrical equipment and ladders, and handle bodily fluids and found needles using routine practices.
- Assess and plan for workplace violence, including student safety plans, escalation, summoning help and the response after an incident.
- Recognize and respond to workplace harassment, work-related stress, noise, voice strain and fatigue.
- Report incidents to the right people within the legal deadlines and investigate them to find causes rather than blame.
- Explain the role of the safety committee, the AWAIR program and return to work, and build a data-based yearly safety plan for a school.
Course content
12 lessons · 4 h 18 min total · final exam
- 1 Hazards in schools: the staff view 22 min · quiz
- 2 Rights and duties of school staff in Minnesota 22 min · quiz
- 3 Finding and controlling hazards in a school 22 min · quiz
- 4 Slips, trips and falls in schools 21 min · quiz
- 5 Lifting, student transfers and ergonomics 21 min · quiz
- 6 Chemicals and cleaning products 21 min · quiz
- 7 Indoor air, mold and older buildings 22 min · quiz
- 8 Custodial work, ladders and bodily fluids 22 min · quiz
- 9 Workplace violence and student behavior incidents 22 min · quiz
- 10 Harassment, stress, noise, voice and fatigue 21 min · quiz
- 11 Reporting and investigating incidents 21 min · quiz
- 12 Safety committees, AWAIR, return to work and the year ahead 21 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
Health and safety for teachers, paraprofessionals, custodians, office and food service staff and principals, following the invented Riverbend Public Schools in Minnesota: the hazards school staff face, rights and duties under MNOSHA including the right to refuse imminently dangerous work, finding, rating and controlling hazards, slips, trips and falls, lifting and student transfers, HazCom and cleaning products, indoor air, mold, asbestos under AHERA and lead, custodial work, ladders and bloodborne pathogens, workplace violence and behavior intervention plans, harassment, stress, noise, voice strain and fatigue, reporting and recordkeeping, and safety committees, the AWAIR program, return to work and a yearly safety plan.