PUNE: The support staff in
schools
, including
peons
and '
maushis
', have become all the more important as they are being trained and equipped well to meet essential safety and cleanliness measures in and around the campus.
From knowing the safe temperature norms, sanitizing themselves, using personal protection kits and face shields to undergoing the
RT-PCR tests
, their routines have changed as they now have the additional work of sanitizing premises at regular intervals.
School representatives said the support staff and
housekeeping staff
were an integral part of the school. They have always been a silent pillar and have been working with the ethos that ‘cleanliness is godliness’.
The housekeeping staff in many schools have been increased as there will be more work involving
cleaning
and disinfecting classrooms in two shifts.
After-school hours and weekends would be utilised for deep cleaning and sanitisation of the entire campus. President of Victorious Kidss Educares, Robbin Ghosh, said, “Rigorous training has been provided to teaching and non-teaching staff on how to be alert and cautious and how to help children maintain social distancing and hygiene. Housekeeping staff will ensure daily cleaning and disinfecting of surfaces and objects that are touched often, such as desks, countertops, doorknobs, computer keyboards, hands-on learning items, taps, phones and toys.”
Director of City Pride school, Ashwini Kulkarni, said they have been doing sanitisation, thermal scanning already for the
teachers
who were coming to school with the help of trained support staff.
Also the 'tais' and driver 'kakas' are also trained for sanitisation work at school. At Vidya Pratishthan's Magarpatta City Public School, all the non-teaching staff are undergoing RT – PCR tests.
Principal, Chandrika Banerjee said, “Safe entry and exit of non-teaching staff has been planned. Housekeeping staff have to come early to clean and
sanitize
the school as per the schedules given.”
At Stepping Stone School, the management felt that the health and well-being of support staff was crucial for the school to function properly. Principal Ritu Mendiratta said, “That’s the reason we have made sure that we get their testing and health check-ups done on a regular basis. They have also been instructed clearly to intimate if they have a common cough, or rise in temperature.”
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