Safety Guidelines for Education Outdoors

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Excursion support - communication

Your communication strategy should enable you to: receive weather forecasts and warnings, communicate with the school, and engage support in the case of an incident or emergency.

  • Choose communication equipment based on current communication technology.
  • Develop a communication strategy for the group during the program that also enable communication with outside parties including the school and emergency services.
  • Be aware of the limitations of your communication strategy.

Communication during an emergency

In the event of an emergency, an accident or an injury to a student or staff member, the principal should immediately telephone the Department's 24-hour Emergency and Security Management Branch on (03) 9589 6266.

Mobile phones

For information about policy development regarding mobile phones use, see:  Victorian Government Schools Reference Guide - section 4.15.1.