School Safety/Emergency Operations Plan January 2015
Introduction Purpose of the Plan
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IntroductionPurpose of the PlanThe purpose of the Canton Harbor High School Emergency Operations Plan (School EOP) is to provide information on how to respond to emergency incidents by outlining the responsibilities and duties of Canton Harbor High School and its employees. Customization of this plan to meet Canton Harbor High School’s needs and circumstances is important. Developing, maintaining, and exercising the plan empowers employees to act quickly and knowledgably. The plan educates staff, faculty, students, and other key stakeholders on their roles and responsibilities before, during, and after an incident. This plan provides parents and other members of the community with assurances that Canton Harbor High School has established guidelines and procedures to respond to incidents/hazards in an effective way. Developing, maintaining, and exercising the School EOP increases legal protection. Schools without established incident management procedures may be found liable for their absence. While no set of policies rules out the potential for legal problems, establishing procedures and guidelines on the best professional practices provides a margin of protection against liability. Scope of the PlanThe School EOP provides guidelines and procedures for dealing with existing and potential school incidents. The basic plan and the functional and hazard-specific annexes outline an organized, systematic method to mitigate, prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from incidents. The plan discusses the expectations of staff; roles and responsibilities; direction and control systems; internal and external communications; training and sustainability; authority and references as defined by local, state, and federal government mandates; common and specialized procedures; and specific hazard vulnerabilities and responses/recovery. Coordination with Emergency First RespondersVarious agencies and services are involved in responding to school incidents, including emergency responders from law enforcement, safety, fire, emergency agencies, as well as mental health and other community organizations. An important component of the School EOP is advanced planning with various federal, state, and/or local agencies and community service providers to aid in timely communication and response to an incident. Advance planning may or may not include written agreements to help coordinate services between the agencies and school. If mutual aid agreements are created, a copy should be maintained with other important documents related to this emergency management plan. Advanced planning should specify the type of communication and services provided by one agency to another. Situation Overview/Hazard Analysis SummarySchool PopulationGeneral PopulationCurrent enrollment at Canton Harbor High School is approximately 85 high-school students located on the second and third floors of the JR Coleman Center. These students are supported by a committed staff and faculty consisting of: 6 Teachers and specialists 1 Administrators 3 Office/support staff 1 Maintenance and custodial staff (Tim Dunne, JR Coleman Center, 1st Floor) A master schedule of where classes, student groups, and staff are located during the day is provided to each classroom and is available in both hard copies and electronic in the main office. Functional Needs PopulationCanton Harbor High School is committed to the safe evacuation and transport of students and staff with functional needs. The functional needs population includes, but is not limited to, students/staff with: Limited English proficiency, Cognitive or emotional disabilities, Mobility/physical disabilities (permanent and temporary), and Medically fragile health (including asthma and severe allergies). The school’s current enrollment of students with functional needs is approximately 4 or 5% of the current population; however, this number will fluctuate. Students and/or staff may require additional assistance if they are temporarily on crutches, wearing casts, etc. Classrooms containing students and staff that require additional assistance during an incident will be noted by an asterisk next to the room number during the applicable class period(s) on the master schedule. The list of students and staff names with functional needs along with their schedules is available via hard copy and/or electronic in the main office. A list of staff members that have been trained and assigned to assist the functional needs population during drills, exercises, and incidents is also available via hard copy and/or electronic in the main office. Building InformationCanton Harbor High School is located on a 0.75 acre lot and includes 1 building, constructed out of red brick with two parking lots along Regal Ave NE in the back. All classes take place in Canton Harbor High School, located on the 2nd and 3rd floors of the JR Coleman Center. A map and/or floor plans of the buildings annotated with evacuation routes, shelter locations, fire alarm pull stations, fire hydrants, fire extinguishers, first aid kits, hazardous materials storage, and utility shutoffs is included at the beginning of this plan. All staff members are required to know these locations as well as how to operate the utility shutoffs. Hazard Analysis SummaryCanton Harbor High School is exposed to many hazards which have the potential for disrupting the school community, causing casualties, and damaging or destroying public or private property. Understanding that the Stark County Emergency Management Agency maintains an Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) to address hazards and incidents, the Canton Harbor High School EOP has been developed to fit into the larger Stark County EOP in the event of a large-scale incident. Table 1 on the following page briefly discusses high-priority hazards that Canton Harbor High School has identified through a hazards assessment of each school building and its surrounding area, conducted either by school officials or in conjunction with officials of the Stark County Emergency Management Agency and the County’s Emergency Operations Plan, local law enforcement, fire, and other community safety partners. For example, a school may be located near railroads where numerous hazardous materials are transported. A derailment could force an evacuation and implementation of other emergency procedures. The high-priority hazards table should be customized to include content specific to your school community. Table 1. High-Priority Hazards
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