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	Scope on Safety: What Is Your First Aid Policy? By: Ken Roy
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Type of Resource:	Journal Article
Average Rating:	based on 3 reviews
Publication Title:	Science Scope
Publication Date:	1/1/2004
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Grade Level:	Middle School

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Would you know what to do if one of your students had an accident with a chemical that resulted in contact with the skin? What would you do if a student spilled boiling water on his or her hands? These are the types of potential challenges science teachers face every time they walk into a laboratory with students. Prepare yourself for the worst case scenario by developing a first-aid policy for your science classroom as outlined by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration Regulations (OSHA).

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Science Discipline: (mouse over for full classification)	Safety and security
Intended User Role:	Curriculum Supervisor, Middle-Level Educator, Teacher
Educational Issues:	Classroom management, Curriculum, Professional development, Science safety, Teacher preparation, Teaching strategies

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Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
- Personal health
  - Safety and security are basic needs of humans.
  - Safety involves freedom from danger, risk, or injury.
  - Student understandings include following safety rules for home and school, preventing abuse and neglect, avoiding injury, knowing whom to ask for help, and when and how to say no.
  - The potential for accidents and the existence of hazards imposes the need for injury prevention. (5-8)
  - Injury prevention has personal and social dimensions.

Process Standards for Professional Development
- Learning
  - Build on the teacher's current science understanding, ability, and attitudes. (NSES)

Teaching Standards
- Teachers provide students with the time, space, and resources needed to learn science.
  - Ensure a safe working environment.

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	What Is Your District's Policy on First Aid?
	Adah (San Antonio, TX) on June 22, 2012
	This article is an important read for a teacher who is responsible for addressing some common safety problems. For the fortunate middle school teacher where a nurse is always on hand this article would be a good review to present to the nurse. In my experience through the years, we were first given a first aid kit and then it was taken away and we (the teachers) handled bandages’ only. This information is important but often a district has its own rules about teachers responding to minor accidents. Some of the rules described in the article would be necessary for a professional lab environment and in my opinion not a classroom. Of course one can say this to a judge who is responding to a parent’s claim of teacher negligence. This is a sensitive issue to say the least.

	Classroom Safety: Are You LIable?
	Patricia McGinnis (Pottstown, PA) on December 4, 2010
	Did you know that if a science teacher provides first aid that they could be held liable if the student sustains physical or psychological damage? This article provides a thorough discussion from a liability standpoint the chain of events that should occur if an injury happens in the classroom.

	Classroom Safety: Are You LIable?
	Patricia McGinnis (Pottstown, PA) on December 4, 2010
	Did you know that if a science teacher provides first aid that they could be held liable if the student sustains physical or psychological damage? This article provides a thorough discussion from a liability standpoint the chain of events that should occur if an injury happens in the classroom.

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