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Four phases of school emergency management
Monday, August 28, 2023 by Paul Kazlauskas
According to the United States Department of Education, an all-inclusive school emergency plan is built on the four phases of emergency management and provide direction to the entire school community:
Prevention/Mitigation
Preparedness
Response
Recovery
School emergency plans must document everything that is required to implement and maintain the plan. Plans should be put in writing, communicated to all staff, and practiced regularly through drills and exercises. School staff should ...
9 visitor policy basics to keep your facility secure
Monday, August 21, 2023 by Paul Kazlauskas
Visitors to an office building come in many different forms. A few different types include business guests, potential new hires, delivery personnel, and employee family members. Some visitors are regulars, while others visit just once and are never seen again in the facility. Regardless of what business you’re in, there are certain security issues you need to address with regards to visitors. Here 9 tips and procedures for keeping your facility secure:
1. Decide on an authorization ...
14 School Safety Techniques for a more secure facility
Monday, August 14, 2023 by Paul Kazlauskas
School safety is a complicated issue.
It affects children, teachers, administrators, and parents in a variety of ways, from the quality of learning to the risk of lawsuits. But it is also everyone’s responsibility, and schools should remind stakeholders of their respective roles in promoting school safety and security.
So where should a school start?
Below is a list of ideas that schools in America have implemented successfully to improve their safety and security measures:
1. ...
Understanding the importance of Crisis Management Teams
Monday, August 14, 2023 by Paul Kazlauskas
Our society has witnessed (too many times to count) that incidents of human-created terror or natural disasters can happen anywhere in the world. Schools, healthcare facilities, and businesses of all kinds are vulnerable. There is no longer a mythical place of “it can’t happen here.” For that reason, building security officials need to be well-versed in crisis management.
In a past blog post, I covered tips for what to do before, during, and after a security crisis in ...
Where should you wear your name badge?
Monday, August 14, 2023 by Andrew Jones
Are there a right way and a wrong way to wear a name badge?
Most people wear their visitor badges on their left (near their heart). That’s because most people (about 90 percent of us) are right-handed, so it’s easier to put our visitor badges on our left side.
But is that the correct way to do it?
When, after all, do we wear name badges? Most likely it is when we are among people who don’t know us. So, when we meet them, we want to make it easy for them to learn ...
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