Safety Initiatives
Rush-Henrietta Safety Initiatives
Here are some of the many ways we have worked to help ensure safe schools:
1. Rush-Henrietta uses locked doors monitored via cameras from the inside and requires that visitors be buzzed in to gain entry. Employees have fobs to enter their buildings.
2. Rush-Henrietta was among the first local school districts to implement a visitor management system at all schools. Visitors must produce personal ID and are given a badge to wear before proceeding.
3. Surveillance cameras have been installed inside and outside of all schools. These systems are continually evaluated for effectiveness and coverage.
4. Each year, Rush-Henrietta revises and implements its state-approved district and building safety plans. It also establishes a plan of work for building emergency response teams to practice emergency procedures monthly, and to review and update their building emergency response plans.
5. The District Health & Safety Committee, Building Emergency Response Team, and District Emergency Response teams meet regularly.
6. Emergency response procedures are available in each room – classroom or office – throughout the district. In the event of an emergency, these flip charts outline the procedure to follow depending on the emergency situation.
7. Rush-Henrietta has led the way among local districts in holding Safety Week drills each year. To help ensure everyone remembers what to do during an emergency, Safety Week is now held twice annually, in the fall and spring. Students and staff members practice drills that involve lockdowns, evacuations, and more.
8. Rush-Henrietta works in collaboration with local law enforcement and other emergency responders to help assure preparedness.
9. If a student’s behavior causes sufficient level of concern, the district promptly performs a threat assessment following established protocols.
10. Youth assistants are stationed in the hallways to help monitor behavior and keep everyone safe.
11. We continue to partner with the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office so it can train, gaining invaluable knowledge about the layout of our schools that we pray will never be needed. We have partnered on these drills for many years
12. The Rush-Henrietta Safe Schools Help Line is allows tips to be acted upon in a timely fashion.
Safe Schools Helpline
Call: 800-4-1-VOICE ext. 359
Text: TIPS to 614-426-0240
www.safeschoolhelpline.com