Schools put pre -emptive plans to face weather fluctuations

Governmental and private schools have confirmed the development of proactive plans to counter possible weather fluctuations today and tomorrow.

She stressed that the safety of students is a top priority for her, and that she is following security and safety standards during the bad weather and rainy atmosphere, by inventory the risks, and following and implementing a number of precautionary measures.

In the event that the state and their families, the students and their families called on the state during the next two days, to avoid the areas where the vision is decreased, or it is difficult to reach the bus.

In detail, the administrators in government and private schools confirmed: Ahmed Al -Albi, Muhammad Samir, Maha Youssef and Fatima Karam, to «Emirates Today» that school follow -up systems are received daily by official weather reports and expectations, noting that if there are changes in weather changes, such as fog and low vision, rain or violent dirt winds, it is prepared in advance to activate emergency plans to ensure safety and safety Students, send notifications to students with the safety measures to be taken.

They added that each school is obligated to employ responsible for communication and coordination with the relevant authorities in cases of bad weather, and to comply with its instructions in the event that the disruption of the working hours is approved, and the possibility of delaying the working hours in difficult weather cases, in coordination with bus operators, communicating with students and their families, and informing them of any case of disruption or delaying the last, noting that the risks that accompany the rain and bad weather It is limited to six cases, including: increasing the risk of slipping, decreasing the range of horizontal visibility, the imbalance in estimating the distances of the bus stops, the disruption of vehicles in the water pools, the fall of signs or equipment from high places, in addition to the electrical risks.

They explained that the preventive measures that are followed to maintain the safety of students and school workers, include ensuring the presence of the nursing body during the rains, the availability of all first aid equipment, communication with parents and informing them of developments, registration of volunteers from teachers and school workers to assist outstanding vehicles or emergency situations, as well as providing a safe place to collect students during severe rains, and extinguish all Unnecessary electrical appliances, connecting to relevant bodies in the event of an emergency.

The precautionary procedures included the bus standing next to the sidewalk at the rise and descent of students, and to ensure the validity of the buses in terms of the quality of the tires, side mirrors, glass scanners and alert signals to stand, and bus supervisors must be careful when students rise and get off, and stay near school buildings when necessary and when the school is expected to be evacuated due to bad weather.

The school transport official at a private school, Ali Jaafar, pointed to the training of school transport drivers, to focus on how to act during weather fluctuations and fog, with the aim of preserving the safety of students, and making sure daily of the availability of safety factors in school bus The air, and with school administration in the event of delaying or disabled during difficult weather cases, in addition to ensuring that drivers and supervisors obtain the necessary training, to dispose of such cases.

It is worth noting that the National Meteorological Center expected rain of various intensity, with lightning and thunder sometimes, and the fall of small cold beads, especially today and tomorrow, as a result of the flow of a wet air mass from the Arabian Sea and the Oman Sea towards the state.

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