Custodian/maintenance

**Administrave Procedure P - MA - 605**
**Personnel**

**Custodians/Custodial Assistants - Job Descripon**

**Background**:
**Procedures**:
**1. General Dues**
a. All custodians are responsible to the Director of Facilies and during school periods shall be under the general direcon of the Custodian Foreman. b. The work schedule shall be arranged with the Building & Grounds Supervisor in consultaon with the Principal. c. Custodians and Custodial Assistants shall be in aendance at the building during such hours as may be necessary to complete their dues and mes that have been set down by the Building & Grounds Supervisor. d. No employee shall employ a substute to perform his/her work. No Custodian shall place a substute person in charge of his/her school at any me.

**2. Care of School Property**
a. The custodians shall devote the enre me they are on duty to the care of the building in their charge; take every reasonable precauon for the protecon and preservaon of the building and school property; prevent any unauthorized person interfering with any part of the building or removing therefrom any property of the school division except with the permission of the principal of the school or an official of the board.

**3. Appearance**
a. Employees shall at all mes present a neat appearance.

**4. Damage to Building & Property**
a. Custodian shall report to the Building & Grounds Supervisor and Principal any damage to building, property or equipment. b. Minor Repairs i. Custodians shall make minor repairs to building and equipment.

**5. Authority for Repair Work**
a. All repairs to plumbing, heang and venlang equipment which the custodians are unable to perform, must be reported to the Building & Grounds Supervisor covering the necessary work to be performed.

**6. Safety**
a. Part of the reason for cleanliness and maintenance is the prevenon of fire, and the safety and health of all those using the facilies within the Hanover School Division.

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**7. General Policies**
a. A custodian must be absent from his dues, he must obtain permission from the

Building & Grounds Supervisor, or in his absence, from the Custodian Foreman, and must inform the principal of his absence. b. Custodians must realize that their employment by the division must take precedence over any other occupaon in which they are engaged, and if they are unable to cope with both, they must drop one. c. Should a custodian have a complaint against any teacher or student, he should make the complaint to the principal. He should not take any disciplinary acon. d. The custodian shall not contract any bills without authorizaon from purchasing authories. e. It is the custodian's duty to unlock outside doors for authorized evening acvity. f. Keys shall not be loaned out or duplicated. A strict account of his/her keys is expected of the custodian.

**8. Daily Cleaning**
a. Washrooms: i. Clean toilet and urinals. ii. Clean hand basins thoroughly. iii. Keep floors clean. iv. Wipe lower parts of washroom walls as necessary. v. Check dispensers. b. Classrooms: i. Sweep, dust-mop and spot-mop the floors. ii. Empty the wastebaskets. iii. Dust the chalkboard ledges. iv. Clean chalkboard brushes, unless the teacher and his class have a schedule for cleaning them. v. Dust furniture, ledges, window sills and other obvious areas. c. Halls, Foyers, Vesbules and Mechanical Rooms: i. Sweep and dust-mop floors in halls, foyers and vesbules. ii. When necessary, wet-mop floors in vesbules and foyers immediately aer school goes into session in the mornings and aernoons. iii. Dust-mop floors in all these areas and clean up generally to comply with fire regulaons. iv. Cleanliness in the mechanical and storage room should be comparable to cleanliness throughout the school. v. Clean the water fountains. d. Administraon Areas: i. Sweep and dust-mop floors. ii. Dust furniture and other obvious areas. e. General i. The custodian shall check doors, windows and lights upon compleon of his day's work.

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ii. To open the building in the morning and check that all exit doors open and that all panic hardware is working properly. f. Weekly Cleaning i. Dust the enre school thoroughly with special aenon being paid to areas such as higher ledges, shelves, behind radiators and moveable bookshelves, corners, etc. ii. Thoroughly dust the mechanical room including all mechanical equipment, ducts, etc. g. Periodic Cleaning i. When necessary clean: Windows, glass in doors, parons, spots on floors and walls which remain aer daily cleaning. Furnace and air handling unit filters are replaced when necessary. h. Summer Cleaning i. During the summer holidays, the enre school is to receive a thorough "house cleaning" with special aenon being paid to walls, ceilings and student desks. i. Floor Care i. Floors are to receive special aenon. In order to preserve floors, they must be kept well waxed or covered