SAFETY AND DISEASE TRANSMISSION SECTION
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Questions 17 - 25:
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17. What percentage of time is a school nurse located at your school?
18. Does your school have a designated first aid room with a sink and toilet?
19. Where are AEDs (automated external defibrillators) and first aid kits located throughout the school building, buses and grounds?
20. Are students required to wash their hands before meals and at other appropriate times?
21. Does your school have a system for tracking student and staff’s health-related complaints by date, time, location and symptoms as well as accidents and injuries?
22. What is your student immunization rate?
23. Does your school have the following written plans and/or policies:

A. Safety plan for staff, students and visitors?
B. Security plan?
C. Emergency/disaster/terrorism plan?
D. Chemical hygiene, handling and spill plan?
E. Bloodborne pathogen and biological spill plan?
F. Emergency nurse services plan?
G. Playground safety plan?
H. Policies for limiting outdoor activities due to temperature extremes or high levels of ozone or ultraviolet radiation?
I. Policies for managing allergies and asthma including Epi-Pen use and latex allergies?
J. Policy for administering medication/self-medication?
K. Lock-out/tag-out policy?
L. Policy for equipment safety, personal protective equipment and/or ergonomics?
M. Other?

24. How is safety and disease transmission part of each grade’s curriculum?
25. Who conducted this inventory (e.g., Mrs. Frost’s second period Health class with help from Mr. Wright, principal, and Mrs. Baker, cafeteria supervisor)?