- Northwestern High School
- Safety and Security Measures
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- Student / Staff Identification badges
- To be worn daily by all
-Raptor visitor management system- Student / Class meetings
- Conducted at the beginning of each year
- Student safety and security expectations communicated
- Emergency contact numbers
- Student Handbook
- School’s Hotline to SRO – 981-1210
- Staff in-service of campus procedures
- New staff in-service on emergency procedures
- Monthly Staff meetings where concerns and reminder of drills/procedures is communicated
- Staff emergency bags
- Contains staff expectations and emergency procedures for each classroom space
- Performance of Emergency Drills
- Monthly fire evacuation, annual earthquake, tornado, lockdown
- Administrative evaluation conducted after every drill and safety event
- Staff observation/monitoring
- AM/PM paid staff observation in areas student congregate
- Hallway monitoring of students by teachers and staff
- In-between class changes
- Signed hallway passes
- Lunch monitors
- Daily sweeps of instruction areas by instructor assigned to that area
- Class, desk, gym, locker room, etc.
- Restroom
- Nearest student restroom walk-through during planning periods
- School Security Cameras
- Monitoring of over 30 cameras positioned around the campus
- In the process of getting additional ones in areas to monitor individuals entering and exiting areas prone to inappropriate unmonitored activity
- Radio Communication
- Over twenty radio units that can respond to any assistance calls
- Electronic communication to staff, parents and students.
- Blackboard phone links
- Website
- School Resource Officer
- One assigned to our campus
- Have access to all other resource officers
- Weekly briefing of criminal events involving our student population
- Assigned to cover events involving our school
- Assessment of campus/school safety and security procedures
- Rock Hill Police Department – Drug Dog Sweep of Campus
- School Registered and Certified Nurse and Athletic Trainer
- Provide daily health care to student and staff
- Handles injury reports.
- Non-instructional hours school security
- Assignment of SRO coverage for student events involving public appearances on and off campus
- Use of rental security agencies to assist in monitoring of visitors to campus
- Building lock downs
- Cleaning staff security sweep of buildings
- Reporting of security concerns and findings
- Custodial locking and alarming of building
- Custodial un-locking and disarming of alarms to begin instructional day
- Annual review (formal) of campus security plan.
- High Visibility of Instructional and Administrative staff throughout the day
- Eyes open and observe all