
General information safety
The school is a registered work site, which means industrial legislation applies to many aspects of the school, such as the following:
- Open footwear (thongs/sandals) is not permitted to be worn at any time. 
- Extra protection is required in some classrooms e.g. science, manual arts, art, and home economics. Departmental and industrial safety regulations require students not complying, be excluded from these lessons. 
- Any potentially dangerous material / objects are not permitted to be brought onto school campuses e.g. knives, matches, lighters, cigarettes, aerosol cans or drugs. 
Dress code
Students are required to wear the P&C endorsed school uniform correctly.
All approved USHS uniforms are only available at the P&C Uniform Shop, which is located across from Student Services. See the Uniform Shop Page for more information. 
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Please see the Student Handbook link to the right for further details.
- Students are expected to come to school with a clean and tidy appearance: 
- Hair is to be washed, combed/brushed.
- Clothes are to be clean.
- Hair colour it is to be natural tones i.e. not multi-coloured, not unnatural hair colours (i.e. pink, blue, green, purple etc.). 
- Hair styles are to be neat and tidy e.g. no shaved styles, no mohawks, no words shaved into the scalp, etc. 
- Make-up is not to be worn. 
- Clear nail polish is permitted. 
- Jewellery is permitted to be worn only if it complies with the following requirements:
- Small sleepers (no bigger than a five cent piece) or small studs (non protruding items only).
- One small pendant no bigger than a 20 cent piece on a thin chain (due to workplace health and safety requirements this should be worn inside students collar/school shirt and may have to be removed to enable participation in certain activities).
- A signet ring.
- Medical alert bracelets and necklaces.
- Other piercings that are not ordinarily covered by the school uniform (i.e. facial piercings) must be covered by tape/band-aid or removed during the school day.