Teachers, please take some time over the holidays to learn how to keep you and your students safe from COVID.

The COVID Safety For Schools Course features Australia's leading experts, and is free.

It could be the most important PD activity you ever do.

covidsafetyforschools.org

More evidence that clean air is effective in reducing the risk of COVID spreading in schools. Improving ventilation and using air filtration make schools safer for students and staff.
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Schools have a legal obligation to provide a safe workplace.

That means understanding the health risks from COVID, how it spreads and how to prevent it spreading.

It also means taking all reasonable steps to protect the health and safety of staff, students and others.

These issues are of course linked. x.com/CovidSafetyEd/…

Indeed

🇳🇿New Zealand: Teachers and healthcare workers most vulnerable to Long COVID, a new study shows.

Study: phcc.org.nz/briefing/long-…

rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

Schools are a major source of covid spread in the community.

Covid has killed >24,000 Australians and left >half a million with long covid.

Therefore schools have a moral obligation to do everything they can to prevent covid spreading & minimise downstream death & disability.

'Thousands of Students Will Face Long COVID. Schools Need to Plan Now'

This article is from June 2022.

Schools: what's your plan? You were warned nearly 2 years ago.

PS - It's millions ... not thousands.
> 6 million and growing.

#LongCovidAwarenessDay

edweek.org/leadership/tho…

🌐 Governmts
Must take responsibility
#ProtectTheChildren
@who Jeremy Farrar Hans Kluge
Dr Maria Neira Gabby Stern

'Schools should be safe places of learning not places where students are at risk of health hazards '

Invest & Value education

NEU HEALTH & SAFETY thx for advocating

Something needs to be done to stop kids getting C0VID over and over and over again.

Policy makers for educational settings have a duty of care and must #MakeSchoolsSafe

Jason Clare MP Tony Buti Di Farmer Ben Carroll Prue Car MP Yvette Berry Member for Ginninderra🍓