TheP.P.M.S.(School Emergency Plan)is an operational crisis management document specific to each school. In the event of a major disaster, it is designed to ensure the safety of students and staff and to enable the school to implement official guidelines while awaiting the arrival of emergency responders. It must be easily accessible to teachers in the classrooms.

This is a plan designed to address a crisis situation resulting from a major accident. There are three categories of major risks:

– Natural hazards: storms, earthquakes, landslides, floods, wildfires, avalanches…
– Technological hazards: industrial risks, transport of hazardous materials, dam or levee failures, toxic fumes, contamination of the drinking water supply…
– Specific emergency situations:intrusion by unauthorized persons, terrorist attacks…

The school principal (with the assistance of the district ACMO), as part of the teachers’ council, or the head of the E.P.L.E. (with the assistance of the school-level ACMO and the administrator) develops this plan, but everyone must collaborate on the development of the P.P.M.S. in a participatory and collegial manner (administrative staff, teachers, healthcare personnel, local government officials, etc.).

Yes, it can be downloaded from the Health and Safety website of the Nice Academy.

The specific plan should address the following questions:

1. When should the alert be triggered?
2. How do I trigger the alert?
3. What guidelines should be followed immediately?
4. Where and how can we ensure the safety of students and staff?
5. How should we handle external communications?
6. What documents and resources are essential?

Once this plan has been developed, it must be continuously monitored to verify its effectiveness through regular simulation exercises (at least once a year).

Each year, it is presented to the school board or submitted to the school’s board of directors and the health and safety committee, if one exists.

During simulation exercises, use the observation sheets available on the website listed in point 2. The simulation exercises must focus on sheltering in place and evacuation procedures that differ from those specified for fires within the facility.

Through regular updates based on feedback from simulation exercises

Through communication with local emergency services and the municipality where the facility is located

The Specific Safety Plan must be provided to:

1. on the one hand, to the mayor of the municipality;
2. on the other hand, to the school district inspector, the director of the departmental education services, and the school district superintendent through official channels.

For middle schools, high schools, and special education schools, this information will also be shared with the local government authority responsible for the school to ensure effective coordination among the relevant services and consistency with the safety measures implemented by that authority.

Schools:The P.P.M.S. is presented at the school board meeting.

E.P.L.E.: The health and safety committee, where one exists, is involved in drafting this plan before it is reviewed by the standing committee and submitted to the board of directors for deliberation.

None

This document has been mandatory since the issuance of Circular No. 2002-119 on May 29, 2002.

The specific safety plan is available to all users of the facility (staff, parents, and students).

No

For each school or institution, the School Emergency Response Plan is the best way to effectively address the severity of a major incident while awaiting the arrival of emergency responders.

The other required documents are as follows:

The D.U.E.R. (Single Risk Assessment Document), intended to identify all risks inherent to a workplace, in accordance with Article R4121-1 of the Labor Code.
“The employer shall record and update in a single document the results of the assessment of risks to the health and safety of workers that it conducts pursuant to Article L. 4121-3.
This assessment shall include an inventory of the risks identified in each unit of the company or establishment.”

1. The Health and Safety Logbook (which is easily accessible to staff, students, and visitors) is intended to record all observations and suggestions regarding risk prevention and the improvement of working conditions.
2. The serious and imminent danger log is used exclusively by staff to report a serious and imminent danger and to exercise their right to refuse to work. It is maintained by the school principal or a person designated by the principal.
3. The safety log must document all events directly or indirectly related to safety. Consequently, all documents pertaining to health and safety are attached to it (maintenance contracts, periodic inspections and checks, etc.). It is maintained by the administrator at the local public educational establishment (EPLE) or by the school principal at the school.