For indoor shooting, use a properly installed safety net. For outdoor activity, mark and control the shooting area. Keep everyone behind the firing line. Instruct students in safety procedures, shooting techniques, care and use of equipment and how to properly remove an arrow from a target butt. Never point a loaded bow at anyone.
Load bows on the shooting line only.
Position all students not involved in shooting well behind the firing line and away from the archers on the line. Teach skills in proper progression. Provide constant visual supervision. Schools are encouraged to consider alternative program options to replace high-risk activities. Teachers who wish to instruct a high-risk activity like baseball require written permission from the board of education.