School Awareness and Safety Program to initiate a process in the Conducting the school assessment will: promote student safety increase awareness about school safety practices provide insight for new schools to adhere to school safety help the schools to prepare and update nds of the people who are directly or indirectly associated with the functioning of the schools to assess whether fulfillments are made as per the requirement of the National Building Code/ The Bombay Primary Education Act 1947/ Local bylaws What is included in the Assessment of School Building Vulnerability & Preparedness? Architectural Observations: 1. Area of the School 2. Space in each class rooms 2a. Height 2b. Area per person 3. Location of the staircase 3a. Distance of the staircase from the farthest room 4. Staircase details 4a. Width of the staircase 4b. Tread 4c. Riser 4d. No of risers per flight 4e. Minimum headroom in a passage under landing of a staircase 4f. Railing ht 5. Passage/Corridor 5a. Width of corridor 5b. Length of the corridor 6. No of exits B. Structural Observations: 1.Age of the building 2 Construction History (one phase or multiple phase) 3 Soft storey 4 Column Orientation 5 Shape of building 6 Cantilevers 7Are there cracks in structural elements 8 Are major repair works carried out for the strengthening or the damaged part of the building C. Functional/Operational Observations: 1. Does the building have a Building Use Certificate 2. Condition of the Electrical panels/mains 3. Lightning Protection of buildings 4. Fixed fire fighting installation 5. Regular building maintenance works 6. Exit requirements 6a. Type of exit (doorway/corridor/passageway) 6b. Condition of the exit route eg: obstructions if any 7. Is adequate water/toilet facility available at each floor 8. Are staircase functional at all time or some exits are kept locked 9. Distance of Emergency Service from the school 10. Special Provisions for physically handicapped D. External Observation: 1. Any hazardous unit near the vicinity? 2. Means of access 3. Traffic conditions on the road 4. Speed Breakers 5. Caution sign boards 6. Encroachment near the entrance of the building 7. Chances of water logging 8. Drains 9. Access of fire engine 10. Threat against falling of adjoining buildings/ compound walls/ parapet walls/ chimneys/talls structures/ electricity poles etc. 11. Open space 11a. All round open space 12. Main entrance to the plot 13. Distance between two blocks or Separation between accessory and main building 14. Footpath width/Pathway E. Preparedness Observations: 1. Are awareness programmes organized for the students and the staff 2. Are teachers and students aware of the vulnerability or vulnerable areas in the school 3. Are mock-drills performed regularly in the schools 4. Safe place/shelters identified in the school 5. Assignment of duties and responsibilities to the staff 6. Are staff trained for the first-aid 7. Provision for firefighting systems 8. Public address system in working condition
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