Safety Practices and Policies

Markeia Walton

EDUC 1005

Section 1

Safety Practices and Policies

After carefully reading the chapters about Safety practices and policies, I decided to focus on my discussions with having a preschool classroom. The first week of my blog I want to talk about what could be potentially hazard and safety threats in a preschool environment. My five hazardous and safety situations are: having open sockets in a classroom for students to reach, not having safety gear when riding tricycles. Another hazardous item in a class is having teacher supplies lying around the classroom for example: scissors, stapler, nail pins etc. I also wanted to discuss that broken toys in another safety threat to children.  Last hazardous situation is cleaning solutions low in cabinets for children to reach. A few measures that should be taken to prevent these hazardous threats are good examples to help parents and teachers. With safety helmets, there are many ways to prevent unsafely measures like showing the proper way to wear helmets, talking with parents and students about how important it is to wear safety helmets.

When having hot liquids in a classroom it should be in a safe spot to where children cannot reach. Hot liquids should also have a lid on the cups. It is also safe to have all your hot liquid items in the adult waiting area. As a teacher, I talk with my students about hot items and teacher items that they should not touch in class. It is all about showing classroom modeling. Having teacher supply lying around is not safe. To prevent this situation in class and home try talking with your children about teacher supply and student supply. Not looking for unsafely toys is not good in a preschool classroom. At the end of each week. It is good to have your assistant and yourself (teacher) to look around your classroom for loose nails, broken toys. Therefore, those children will not hurt themselves. Parents should do this at home as well.