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De AOb made several guidelines on the subject of ventilation that can help you further:
- Read the article: 'No excuses, work on clean air in schools'
- Useful app from Boink with tips about ventilation.
A well-ventilated workplace is important for the health and proper functioning of you and your students. Is that the case in your classroom? Check what you can do in 6 steps.
The CO2 concentration is a good yardstick to find out whether there is sufficient ventilation.
Install CO2 meters in the classrooms and other busy areas within the building. Is the CO2 concentration above 800 ppm? Additional measures may need to be taken, such as replacing air filters.
Is there insufficient ventilation? Then the classroom does not meet the standards of the Working Conditions and the RIVM.
The management is obliged to ensure adequate ventilation. If your school or department cannot solve this itself, it must be reported as an urgent problem to a facility service or to the board. If there are (continue to be) doubts among colleagues about whether the ventilation is in order, an investigation by an independent third party can provide clarity. The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science has made a subsidy available for improving the indoor climate in schools.
The mr or works council can also raise ventilation problems and make agreements about this with the school management. For occupational health and safety measures, which concern health and safety, mr and works council have the right of consent. They can also insist on investigation by experts. Furthermore, these councils can obtain external advice themselves, for example from the Kenniscentrum Ruimte-OK, the GGD or the trade union.
If your employer fails to take measures, you can report this to the Labor Inspectorate. You can make that report online. AObpolicy officer Marcel Koning: “An employer must comply with the Working Conditions Act! He or she may be sitting far away in an administrative office, but no one is allowed to work in an unhealthy and harmful indoor climate.” And, he adds: that too high a CO2 concentration is bad for health and learning performance has been known for fifteen years. “Corona has demonstrably increased the urgency to tackle this. So sit on top of that, as parents and staff in the mr. This is the moment.”
You can also make a report together with the AOb. Then send one mail. The inspectorate must always take action when a trade union, mr or or is reported.
In rooms where the applicable standards for adequate ventilation in severe
degree are exceeded, you do not teach. Pull together as colleagues to realize a healthy workplace. Also inform parents and students, it is also about their health.
Finally, you have the right to work under Article 29 of the Working Conditions Act
interrupt if the room in which you teach is not sufficient. If in doubt, please contact us first. Download the sample letter below and read the explanation (note: word file) to submit your work.
De AOb made several guidelines on the subject of ventilation that can help you further: