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Unified School District #1

SCHOOL SAFETY

Revised January 10, 2019

 

Goal – The USD#1 Safety Assessment Committee will strive to ensure a safe and secure learning environment for all district and custody staff, students, volunteers and visitors.

The district recommendations for site administrators to establish and maintain a safe and secure school environment are:

Yearly:

  1. Collaborate with custody staff to provide in-house Behavior Management refresher training to all school staff.
  2. Collaborate with custody staff to conduct a safety walk through tour of all school areas, and work to improve and areas that may be of safety concerns.
  3. Collaborate with key and tool control officer to surplus and/or remove any broken/unused equipment.
  4. Collaborate with custody staff for refresher training on Code of Penal Discipline/Disciplinary process.
  5. Collaborate with MHU to provide in-house updated training for inmate population information.
  6. Collaborate with Security Division to offer current/updated training on Security Risk Groups.
  7. Collaborate with K-9 Unit to offer refresher training.
  8. Collaborate with EAP to offer in house training on updated information/services available to staff.
  9. All USD#1 staff sign off on the USD#1 Technology Usage Policy and handbook.

 

Monthly:

 

School admin will report safety measures, training, issues and accomplishments in the monthly report.

 

Weekly:
  1. Administrators - during weekly walk through in classrooms and shops, conduct safety checks on equipment. Staff – conduct equipment checks.
  2. Report any faulty equipment to administrator and/or custody.

 

 

On-going:
  1. Assign new staff to an in-house USD#1 mentor during the first year of teaching for support.
  2. Utilize the USD#1 Teacher Evaluation and Professional Development Plan for new staff and mentor for training and information. Monitor and assess as needed.
  3. School administrator or designee is a member of the facility Safety Committee.
  4. Collaborate with facility maintenance dept. to conduct repairs as needed.
  5. Utilize agency services in event of crisis/critical incident.(EAP, CIRST, H.R. P3B union, contracts)
  6. Utilize and post the agency Power Card for staff use.
  7. USD#1 teachers and vocational instructors will utilize district and extension curriculum and facility resources to establish and maintain a safe school environment.
  8. Conduct tests of all school phones.
  9. Make sure all staff know the emergency phone number to contact control in the event of an emergency.
  10. Maintain a set of directives at each site.

The link below takes you to  stopbullying.gov.  A website dedicated to Understanding the Roles of Parents and Caregivers in Community-Wide Bullying Prevention Efforts:

https://www.stopbullying.gov/sites/default/files/2017-09/hrsa_guide_parents-and-caregivers_508v2.pdf

 

The following link takes you to the Connecticut State Department of Emergency Services & Public Protection and the Sex Offender Registry:

Department of Public Safety