Training for school staff

Safety training for every adult on campus

Child protection comes first. Teachers, ayahs, attendants, drivers and guards should all know what the child protection policy says, which behaviour is never acceptable, and how to report a concern about a child, including awareness of the POCSO Act. Fire safety and evacuation drills should happen each term, with every staff member knowing the assembly point and their class's exit route. POSH sessions cover how to reach the Internal Committee. Drivers and attendants need road safety and child handover training before they take a route.

• Child protection and POCSO awareness: all staff, every year
• Fire safety and evacuation drills: every term
• POSH awareness and how to reach the Internal Committee
• First aid and CPR for PE teachers, the nurse and hostel staff
• Road safety and child handover for transport staff

Teacher development through the year

Boards expect teachers to spend time on professional development every year, so check your board's current expectation and plan to meet it. Spread the hours out: a two-day workshop before the session on syllabus and assessment changes, subject workshops through the year, in-house sessions where one teacher shows a method that works, and classroom technology training when smart boards arrive. Record every session with its hours, so each teacher's total is ready when inspection or affiliation paperwork asks for it.

Certificates, validity and refreshers

Some training expires. A first aid certificate from an external trainer usually carries a validity period, child protection refreshers should be repeated every year, and a driver's road safety session should be repeated whenever routes or rules change. Give each programme a validity in months that matches the trainer's certificate or your policy, so expiry dates are calculated rather than remembered. Two or three months before a new session, list everyone whose safety training will lapse during it, and book refreshers into the induction days.

How to set it up in ZeniaHR

1. In Learning, create programmes such as child protection, fire safety, POSH awareness, first aid and road safety, and mark the safety programmes as mandatory.
2. Set each programme as classroom, online, blended or external, with its hours and a validity in months that matches the certificate.
3. Enrol staff by role, such as all transport staff for road safety and all teachers for the syllabus workshop, and follow statuses from assigned to completed.
4. Mark each person complete after the session, so a certificate number with an expiry date is issued to them.
5. Before each term, open the compliance view per programme to see who is expired or pending, and waive only with a reason on record.

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