This checklist is designed for maintenance personnel, the energy manager or teachers to save energy during holidays. Someone should be appointed to do it before each holiday.

Add and delete items that are specific to your school and fill in the location where the switch off occurs. Use this procedure in combination with labelling at the point where the switch off occurs.

SUMMER Break

Completed (tick)

Turn off the following

Location

What happens if you don’t do it?

		Air conditioner shut off at circuit board 2 Computer and office equipment at the wall 3 Fridges emptied, doors left ajar 4 Everything on the “before going home” checklist				8 Most electricity using devices have a “standby load”, even when switched off. This includes anything with a remote control (eg air conditioners), computers, office equipment, even gas heaters. The standby load on some copiers can be as high as 100 watts (producing 1.2 tonnes of greenhouse pollution a year). Only turning off at the wall can eliminate this load.

TERM 1 & 2 Break

Completed (tick)

Turn off the following

Location

What happens if you don’t do it?

		Air conditioner shut off at circuit board 2 Computer and office equipment at the wall 3 Fridges emptied, doors left ajar 4 Everything on the “before going home” checklist

WARNING

Care should be taken when switching off at the circuit board. Schools should be aware that the school’s security system is connected and powered from the main switchboard. Shutting down the main switchboard may disable the security system.

Schools should also be aware that the security system sub-panels in other buildings or areas on site are connected to the local switchboard for that building. Shutting down these switchboards may disable the section of the alarm system covering that building.

We advise having your circuit board and sub boards labelled, and that the security system circuit breakers be clearly identified.

If schools wish to shut mains or submains off over the vacation period they should contact Emergency & Security Management on 03 9589 6266 and seek advice.

² Your circuit boards may or may not be well labelled. Consider getting an electrician to come in and label the circuit board for you if you can’t figure out where the air conditioner circuit breakers are.

³ Computers and office equipment should be first switched off normally using the power switch on the machine before switching off on the wall. Check the operation manual of printers and copiers beforehand or phone the manufacturer, in some laser machines there can be problems with toner leakage.

⁴ You may need to ask staff to empty the fridges in their staff rooms a day or two beforehand.

⁵ Computers and office equipment should be first switched off normally using the power switch on the machine before switching off on the wall. Check the operation manual of printers and copiers beforehand or phone the manufacturer, in some laser machines there can be problems with toner leakage.

⁶ You may need to ask staff to empty the fridges in their staff rooms a day or two beforehand.

Electricity is dangerous - observe all necessary safety precautions.

TERM 2 & 3 Break

Completed (tick)

Turn off the following

Location

What happens if you don’t do it?

		Computer and office equipment at the wall 5 Fridges emptied, doors left ajar 6 Everything on the “before going home” checklist

TERM 3 & 4 Break

Completed (tick)

Turn off the following

Location

What happens if you don’t do it?

		Pilot lights on gas heaters Gas heaters at the wall. Central heating systems Computer and office equipment at the wall 7 Fridges emptied, doors left ajar 8 Central heating systems Everything on the “before going home” checklist		See Instructions on each heater		Pilot lights from gas heaters will make enough greenhouse gases to fill 97 fridges over a year.

⁷Computers and office equipment should be first switched off normally using the power switch on the machine before switching off on the wall. Check the operation manual of printers and copiers beforehand or phone the manufacturer, in some laser machines there can be problems with toner leakage.

You may need to ask staff to empty the fridges in their staff rooms a day or two beforehand.

Electricity is dangerous - observe all necessary safety precautions.