Responsibilities
At The School of Modern Skills, Safety is a line management responsibility. Teachers are responsible for safety in their own areas and for the implementation of relevant safety procedures. The School Health and Safety Manager monitors the safety generally and the operation of safety procedures to make sure all these procedures are followed by all the staff.
Principal Responsibility
The school Principal reviews and approve the health and safety policy along with other operations of safety procedures and have them implemented to all the staff and students.
The responsibility of the principal includes,
- To understand and comply with the laws, expectations and responsibilities placed on schools by the civil authorities in Dubai and the UAE
- To guide and advise on all health and safety matters.
- To ensure that the appropriate safety education and training are coordinated and carried out using both in-house and external resources.
- To undertake regular and appropriate revision and auditing of the school safety procedures and methods of operation, to ensure that they are kept up to date.
- To ensure that adequate fire protection and prevention measures are provided.
Health and Safety Manager Responsibility:
- The Manager of the school HSE & operations is responsible for ensuring that risk assessments are carried out and reviewed on a regular basis, as part of a safety audit.
- Audits and Health & Safety tours will be carried out as per the risk assessment review cycle and more frequently if there have been any significant changes to the building, machinery, equipment, work practices or personnel.
- The assessment team will consist of a number of staff, at least one person being 'competent' to make assessments concerning the activities or processes involved.
The purpose of the assessment is to:
- Identify hazards;
- Assess the nature and seriousness of the hazard and subsequent risks;
- Avoid risks by elimination;
- Control any remaining risks:
- Selection of control measures;
- Maintenance and use of controls;
- Monitoring and surveillance;
- Supervision, information, instruction & training.
The security on the campus has been improved with highly professional, skilled & SIRA certified security guards. The visitors must sign on the entry register and obtain a visitor badge/ lanyard to access the premises. All the security guards are compliant with the legal requirements having SIRA certification. Each security guard has been assigned at certain gates to control the access and entries.
To ensure the safety of the premises and infrastructure, the night security guard has been assigned to patrol at different times during the night to visit the sensitive areas to ensure the safety of the campus.
