"No hat, no play" in Australia primary schools

From Collibar March 2012

In Australia, schools and daycares have a strict “no hat, no play” policy, meaning children cannot go outside to play unless they’ve slapped on a hat (a wide brim or legionnaire hat).

Update May 2014: Hats not needed in winter

Only IF winter AND UV <3, AND Southern portion of Australia

See also Vitamin D Life

• No – 10 minutes per day of sun-UVB is NOT enough
• Overview UV and vitamin D
• Melanoma is 44 percent LESS LIKELY if get sun on the job – Nov 2013 should not be a problem when the kids get out in the sun regularly.
• Only 1000 IU of vitamin D in 10 minutes at 36 degrees, nude, summer, noon – April 2013
• Australian dermatologists had lower vitamin D levels than elderly in hospitals – 2009
• Solar Radiation and Human Health: 35 page chapter in a book – Feb 2013
• All items in Noontime Sun 302 items
• Seems that many places have more intense UVB than Australia Tibet and Chile, for examples