Annex (B)

Notice Boards

Preventive measures applied in the educational institutes provide for the display of instructions in prominent places which are mandatory to all concerned parties.

Such instructions are of the following kinds:

¡        General instructions.

¡        Special instructions.

¡        Instructions to specialists.

¡        Instructions to students.

A-    General Instructions

        General instructions are those instructions which must be known to every body (professors, teachers, administrators, laborers and maintenance technicians), therefore, they must be displayed in a visible prominent place especially nearby the entrances, rest halls and restaurants.

        General instructions comprise the following:

(a)    Prevention

        Usually, fire results from negligence or recklessness. Therefore, you can, by paying some attention, avoid fire risks and hazards if you observe the following instructions:

-   Adhere to the duties assigned to you.

-   Do not smoke if it is forbidden to do so.

-   Do not attempt to adjust the cooling and lighting systems or the electrical wiring in the school or the institute.

-   Know the location of the nearest fire fighting equipment store to your place of work.

-   Get acquainted with the exits and corridors leading to the nearest fire equipment store.

-   Never let the evacuation corridors and routes be congested with useless obstacles.

-   Do not forget that housekeeping and cleanliness are two essential factors for prevention.

-   promptly draw the management’s attention to any incident you might encounter or any fault in the equipment you might observe .

(b)    Fire Fighting

        If the fire can be controlled, deal with it correctly in accordance with the standard norms upon its irruption while observing the following directions:

-   keep calm and do not panic.

-   remember that your calm attitude might help the students to avoid chaos and panic.

-   follow up the classrooms regularly.

If you were the first person to discover the fire:

-   advise immediately Mr. (X) (your superior or the person in charge) of the place of fire.

-   ensure that all doors adjacent to the fire are closed.

-   Fight the fire by all available means.

If you were not the first person to discover the fire:

-   act according to the instructions displayed in your office.

B-    Special Instructions (to professors and teachers)

        These instructions are given to the persons living together in the same building or in a certain place (classroom, dorms, kitchen, garage, ... etc.).

        Special instructions shall be displayed inside the building or nearby the entrance door determining for the residents the instructions they have to follow for avoiding the causes of fire and the actions to be taken in case of fire in their section or any other section in the educational institute.

First: upon arrival to the classroom

-    make sure that the emergency door is unlocked.

-    verify if the emergency light is in place in order to be used in case of power failure.

-    immediately advise the educational institute of any abnormal remarks (smell of smoke, electrical sparks, ... etc.).

Second: in case of fire irruption in the classroom

-    ask your students to keep clam and not to panic.

-    immediately notify the director of the educational institute.

-    try to fight the fire using the nearest available fire fighting means.

-    if flame spread, act as indicated in the following para.

Third: upon hearing the alarm

(the sound of the alarm should be specified - siren or ringing the school bell in a certain manner ... etc.)

-    stop the lesson immediately.

-    immediately evacuate the students from the classroom leaving their belonging behind.

-    remind your students that they have to head calmly to the assembly point specified for the classroom and they must take the corridor or the staircase specified for them.

-    do not leave the classroom unless the last student had left and unless you have closed all windows.

-    close the door but do not lock it.

-    catch up with your students and if necessary instruct them to keep calm and quit and prevent any disruption among them.

-    join the assembly point and make sure that all our students are present.

        Remarks

        Similar instructions shall be set for the rooms and the dorm supervisors.

        As regards the professors working in laboratories or workshops, these instructions must be supplemented by accurate and specific directions addressing how to stop gas leakage, switch off circuit breakers, stop engines and motors etc.

C)    Instructions to professionals

        These instructions have a specific and clear objective. They apply either on the special services elements (fire fighting teams, telephone centers, the guard (watchman) ... etc. or to the specialist laborers (electricians, ... etc.).

(a)    Instructions to the watchman of an educational institute hosting boarding students

        First: the mission

        The watchman undertakes the duties of a special fireman. Therefore, he must know the locations of fire fighting equipment available in the school and their capacities and must also know how to use them (water outlets, water buckets - manual extinguishers, alarm systems, telephones ... etc.).

        Second: the instructions

        Instructions can be summarized as follows:

-   to ensure the validity and operability of fire fighting equipment available in the educational institute and requesting maintenance or replacement of faulty or damaged equipment.

-   to make an inspection tour after students had left the school for not less than 15 minutes every day to verify:

r        that there is no invisible fire in the school buildings.

r        that gas meters are switched off.

r        that doors especially those of laboratories, corridors, basements ... etc. are closed.

(b)    Instructions to be displayed adjacent to the telephone exchange.

-   call the Civil Defense on telephone number 997 and inform them of the name and address of the institute and if possible report the kind and place of fire and if the institute buildings were connected to several streets indicate to which door the rescue should head.

-   call the police on telephone number 999 repeating the same information you have already mentioned to the Civil Defense.

-   call the director of the educational institute (on telephone number .......).

-   leave the telephone line free throughout the fire fighting operations for ensuring the possibility of effecting the necessary communications.

D-    Instructions to the Students

        (to be displayed in classrooms)

        In the presence or absence of your teacher and upon hearing the alarm, act as follows:

(1)    keep calm.

(2)    leave all your belongings where they are.

(3)    leave the classroom immediately and head towards the outside without confusion and follow the route specified thereto (determination of the route to be followed).

(4)    if you were compelled to use the locked emergency door try to open it by using the key deposited in the box with glass elevation hanging on the wall nearby the door.

(5)    join the assembly point in ....... (determination of the assembly point specified for each classroom by the administration staff within the educational institute far away from danger or it is preferred to determine the students assembly point in the adjacent street).