Adoption Date: June 10, 2013 / Revision Date(s): / Page 1 of 1
SCHOOL SAFETY
EMERGENCY PLANS AND FIRE DRILLS
Safety of it students is a primary concern of the board of education. The board is aware of the growing concerns about safety that exist throughout the education system and the school community as a whole. Therefore, in compliance with state law, the board of education herein authorizes each school site to establish a Safe School Committee on or before October 1, 1996, and each year thereafter.
Each committee is to be composed of at least six members, with an equal number of teachers, parents, and students.
The committees shall study and make recommendations to the school principal regarding unsafe conditions, strategies for avoiding harm, victimization, crime prevention, school violence, and other issues which prohibit maintenance of a safe school.
In compliance with state law, the board will also designate a safety coordinator for the district. The safety coordinator is given the responsibility to meet with a committee made up of the principal of each of the school sites and the safety committee chairman for each school site in order to review the suggestions made. The safety coordinator will then be responsible for reporting the findings and making recommendations to the superintendent and the board.
The principal and faculty members of each school building will develop and implement fire and emergency procedures for the orderly evacuation of all buildings upon the sounding of a distinctive audible signal designated as the fire alarm. Directions indicating where students are to go and the rout to be taken should be posted in each classroom. These procedures will be developed to ensure the complete safety of children and other school personnel.
Fire and emergency drills will be practiced at least two times each semester of the school year. The first fire drill shall be conducted within the first 15 days of each semester. The second fire drill must occur after the first 30 days of each semester. All students and teachers shall participate.
Each drill shall be documented in writing at each school site. The records for each fire drill shall be presented for at least three (3) years and made available to the State Fire Marshal or his designee upon request.
An emergency procedure and an evacuation plan will be written for the school district and displayed in each room. These procedures will be discussed at the beginning of each school year.