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c. Food Allergy Education, Awareness, & Reaction Prevention
I. Types of Education, Awareness, and Reaction Prevention--recipients of such training:
a. Food Allergen Awareness—students enrolled at SVMS, faculty and staff members at SVMS, parents of students enrolled at SVMS, bus drivers for SVMS, classroom or bus substitutes for SVMS (provided by UCPS), café personnel at SVMS.
b. Label Reading--students enrolled at SVMS, faculty and staff members at SVMS, bus drivers for SVMS, classroom or bus substitutes for SVMS (provided by UCPS), and café personnel (provided by Child and Nutrition) at SVMS.
c. Proper Hand Washing-- students enrolled at SVMS, faculty and staff members at SVMS, bus drivers for SVMS, classroom or bus substitutes for SVMS (provided by UCPS), café personnel (provided by Child and Nutrition) at SVMS.
d. Effective Disinfecting of Surfaces-- faculty and staff members at SVMS, bus drivers for SVMS, classroom or bus substitutes for SVMS, café personnel (provided by Child and Nutrition) at SVMS.
e. Recognition of Allergic Reactions— faculty and staff members at SVMS, members of SVMS’s café personnel (provided by the UCPS Child/Nutrition Department), members of SVMS’s custodial staff, bus drivers (provided by UCPS Transportation Department), bus and classroom substitutes (provided by the county) and SVMS’s emergency response team (Code Blue Team)
f. EpiPen Administration and Emergency Response—the student’s teachers, SVMS’s front office-secretary; SVMS’s administration, and SVMS’s emergency response team (Code Blue Team)
c.2. Who Will Provide the Training
a. School and/or UCPS Nurse(s)
c.3. When will the Training Occur
a. Food Allergen Awareness, Label Reading, Proper Hand Washing, Effective Disinfecting of Surfaces, and Recognition of Allergic Reactions Training for all school personnel (Faculty-members, TA’s, custodians, café personnel, and office-support) will occur on Friday, August 18, 2006 for one hour and fifteen minutes.
b. Food Allergen Awareness, Label Reading, Proper Hand Washing, Effective Disinfecting of Surfaces, and Recognition of Allergic Reactions Training updates for applicable certified staff and non-certified staff will occur at monthly staff meetings or as needed. A minimum of two refresher training sessions will happen in the first semester and again in the second semester. The refresher sessions will vary in length (about 25-30 minutes).
c. Food Allergen Awareness, Label Reading, Proper Hand Washing, Effective Disinfecting of Surfaces, and Recognition of Allergic Reactions Training for bus drivers and bus driver substitutes will occur according to the Transportation Department’s schedule. The assigned bus driver and/or transportation specialist of this student will have specific-to-this-child medical plan training (emergency plan) before the first day of school.
d. Food Allergen Awareness, Label Reading, Proper Hand Washing, Effective Disinfecting of Surfaces, and Recognition of Allergic Reactions Training for classroom substitutes will be trained according to UCPS’ Substitute training schedule.
e. Food Allergen Awareness, Label Reading, Proper Hand Washing, Effective Disinfecting of Surfaces, and Recognition of Allergic Reactions Training staff members hired after the initial training in August will be trained by the school nurse when attending district-level orientation.
f. Food Allergen Awareness, Label Reading, Proper Hand Washing training for students will begin the first day of school. Additional awareness and training will be provided as needed.
g. Food Allergen Awareness training for parents of students enrolled at SVMS will occur beginning the first day of school via information packets sent home with students.
c.4. Documentation of Training
a. All training attendees will sign a roster of attendance, including type of training, name, position, and date of training.
d. Staff member presence
I. A member of SVMS faculty or staff who is adequately trained in the
administration of an Epi-pen will be present during all directly, school-sponsored activities.
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