Our newest safety video addresses the major hazards typically found in the classroom. This is a great video for teachers to view at the beginning of each school year. It also identifies some of the common issues that teachers typically don’t think about when working in their classrooms. Watch the Sample Clip Classroom Safety …
Emergencies can cause you to become discombobulated resulting in cloudy thinking and poor decision making. Good decision making is largely a function of having great information to guide you to an answer. The only way to get great information is to ask great questions. When an emergency strikes, being prepared means having a list of …
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Ever since the deadly attacks at Columbine, schools have focused their emergency preparedness attention to active shooters. Those events changed the way we deal with active shooters – read how. With the Sandy Hook incident, just about every school in the United States is gearing up and training their staff and students in the active …
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Ever wonder why your safety and risk management policies don’t get the results you were looking for? Why your IIPP just sits on a shelf? Why your emergency plan doesn’t seem to work when you test it? The answer is surprisingly simple and it can usually be corrected in one sentence. It’s Not The Best …
Events like Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, and Columbine have educators thinking about how to stop these events from occurring in the future. One such solution that should be incorporated into every school district’s emergency plan is Threat Assessments. But doing it by the book may just be a violation of students civil rights. Assess Everything …
When it comes to oranges, visions of sweet tasting summer fruit come to mind. And for most of us that is all we should think about. But, not all oranges are created equally and some are poisonous to small children. Poisonous Plants & Animals on School Campuses The Osage Orange trees are great for creating …
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Be Green Be Sustainable With the push to be green and sustainable, many schools are turning to gardening to teach valuable skills to students. Growing giant tomatoes means that you have to pull in some reinforcements. Good sunlight, water, fertilizers and the dreaded pesticides. But something much more dangerous hides in the school garden soil. Something that …
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Let’s face it, the events at Sandy Hook are tragic at best and a reminder that the human spirit can unleash horrific brutality among its own kind. In light of this event many of our schools are asking what to do to safeguard its students. The first thing that comes to their mind is something …
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Injuries on inflatable bouncers has increased 15 fold from 1995 to 2010 according to a study published in the journal Pediatrics. To read the abstract or get the full article, click http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/130/6/1076.abstract Inflatables have always been a source of injuries, but the number of injuries has risen from 702 a year to more than 11,000. Those …
When H1N1 hit the scene, many people rushed to the store to buy large quantities of hand sanitizer. Some districts spent thousands of dollars to provide all students with personal hand sanitizer packets. Companies rushed to outfit schools with bulk dispensers at every turn. What happened next was amazing. Schools shocked to find out that …
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