St Andrew's College
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At St Andrew's College, the board of governors ensures that the school is smokefree and vapefree, as required by the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990 (s 7A) and wider board of governors responsibilities to ensure that the school is a physically and emotionally safe place (Education and Training Act 2020) and that the health and safety of workers and others who may be affected by school operations are not put at risk (Health and Safety at Work Act 2015).
We are guided by the purposes of the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act, including the intention to:
Smokefree and vapefree requirements
Our school buildings and grounds (including school car parks and pick-up and drop-off areas) are smokefree and vapefree, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (with no exceptions). This applies to anyone on school grounds, including students, staff, parents/caregivers, contractors, and people hiring or using the school facilities outside school hours. All school activities off school grounds (e.g. EOTC) are also smokefree and vapefree (including transport between venues). This policy applies to all smoking and vaping products, including e-cigarettes.
We include the school road crossing (and rostered adults) in our smokefree and vapefree zone.
We take all reasonably practicable steps to ensure people know that the entire school grounds are smokefree and vapefree at all times. To ensure our school is smokefree and vapefree, we:
Responding to concerns and incidents
Concerns about breaches of this policy involving students and members of the school community may be made through our Concerns and Complaints Policy. See Raising Concerns and Complaints.
Concerns involving smoking or vaping in the workplace are referred to the people and business manager, who may pass these to the board of governors for investigation. Investigations follow legislative guidelines (Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990, s.15). We refer concerns to a smokefree enforcement officer as appropriate.
Adults smoking or vaping in or around school grounds are reminded that the school is smokefree and vapefree by law and are asked to stop or leave school grounds.
If a student breaches this policy (either by smoking/vaping or supplying tobacco/vapes to other students), the rector (or their delegate) determines the appropriate actions to be followed. We may offer appropriate counselling and education, and contact parents/caregivers. We apply the following policies where appropriate:
Release history: Term 3 2026, Term 1 2023, Term 1 2021
