Best Practice: How to promote a good physical work environment Keep the work environment healthy and safe by following the rules and guidance provided in Occupational Health and Safety. Overall make the school an attractive place that stimulates work and wellbeing. Ensure classrooms are spacious and match the number of students, are clean and orderly, and have good light and ventilation. Maintain buildings, facilities, appliances, etc. in a good state and carry out repairs and improvements immediately when necessary. Maintain outdoor areas in the school including play and sports grounds. Plant trees and other plants and arrange for green outdoor spaces at the school premises. Remove waste of any kind that you come across immediately. Ensure waste disposal facilities. Provide teachers with a common room to spend their time between classes and space for individual work like correcting pupils’ homework. Provide pupils with separate spaces to work and socialise. Clean the school premises daily and organise regular major clean ups. Engage pupils in this activity. Make the school a non-smoking environment. If necessary, provide an outdoor area for smokers.