Downtown Texas Safety Assessment

6. As an administrator, building supervision and student/staff safety has to always be at the forefront in planning for the school day. Not doing so, can lead to the unthinkable like this situation, a school

Improvement in security will also contribute to a safe environment. High schools should implement the use of metal detectors as well as random searches. Although, it may be tedious to remove all metal and coins from your pockets, it will ensure safety. This security measure can be specific to each school. An example being to make the checks random throughout the week or only require it for students to have a late arrival. Random searches can also be specified such as only searching lockers or classrooms. Motion sensored cameras can also be a very effective with safety. In many school’s cameras are only in the hallways and lunchroom, but what happens when violence occurs in a classroom? All evidence will be based off hearsay. This is not an effective way of assessing the incident considering there are 3 sides to every story. Adding motion cameras to classrooms will make evidence accurate. Not only will student-student altercations be recorded, but teacher-student altercations will be recorded. Security guards themselves should also be improved. Security guards should be posted in hallways upon children arrival, during passing periods, and upon school dismissal. Security guards should also be fit enough for the job. “The results indicated that utilization of multiple security measures reduced the likelihood of exposure to property

There is a need that each school, its administrators and teachers should know the law of torts. In order to create a "culture of safety" principals should manage the risk of negligence to the faculty and students. As Burgett and Schwartz state, “being a teacher, administrator, board member, school employee, parent, or even a student is tricky business these days” (p.9). Therefore, each decision or actions’ steps should be made based upon ethical and legal principles. The particular high school puts an emphasis on health and safety issues. The school, the buildings, and the classroom are certainly the most critical areas of an educational institution where safety and health take place but also behavior and attitude reflect the importance of the serious business of learning. Therefore, the following three legal issues: unsupervised students, hallways, and field trips demand some improvements, accommodations or extra care to maintain the safety and healthy environment for students and employees.

Other possible hazards are doors and exit points. Doors should have a spring device to close on themselves once they’re open to minimise anyone leaving without being notices, secure stair-gates should be fitted at both ends to minimise falls, and the main entrance should have a secure lock/ buzzer system to minimise unlawful entry or exit.

The University of California, Riverside, is known for its high crime rate. We constantly get notices and emergency warnings about robberies and kidnappings. As students, we walk in fear at night. Whether we live on campus or near campus, the chances of being mugged or sexually assaulted is always a possibility. When a person is afraid, his or her movements are limited. Thus, the existence of a police department on campus can help expand those limitations as it provides protection.

Traffic in downtown Austin, Texas is becoming a sever issue and is continuing to become slower and more congested every day. Austin ranks 4th on a list of U.S. cities with the least efficient roadways, and with its remarkable growth rate, the issue can only get worse. After reading numerous articles based on opinions and statements from local city planners and engineers, the best way to see an improvement in the traffic issue is to increase the amount of public transportation in the Austin area. The increase of public transportation would provide fast travel time and would help reduce the amount of money, commuters and locals use on gas by a substantial amount per year. Though many may argue the that we have enough public transportation already, reducing the number of personal vehicles on the road would decrease the amount of bumper to bumper traffic experienced on a daily basis, as well as increase the options for those commuting to the city every day. there are many possible solutions, such as widening the highways or even building them underground, these solutions however are not the most economically correct and productive way to relieve traffic downtown.

Task 5: demonstrate how to identify potential hazards to health, safety and security of children or young people, families and other visitors and colleges.

It is important when planning and setting up learning activities that indoor and outdoor environments are hazard free and that staff and pupils will be able to work safely. The following factors must be taken into account when planning healthy and safe indoor and outdoor environments and services;

The presentation will cover several areas dealing with the university’s ability to prepare for an emergency or catastrophic event. The areas covered include:

The purpose of this risk assessment report is to bring awareness to the residents of the Santiago Park Neighborhood Community and City Officials incase incident of attack and or natural disaster. This risk assessment is focusing on the possible intendent on the neighborhood and or the neighborhoods road network. This report will show how if an attack and or natural disaster does occur where key failure to the community might occur and might cause problematic incidents for first responders to help or have access to the community.

Thank you, Ms. Leona Graham (mayor), for the opportunity to provide an assessment report for Hazard City. This report will provide an assessment on structural damage of an Intensity IX earthquake, and emergency housing needs. It will also identify actions homeowners can use to help prevent future structural damages, and give more information on possible effects of an Intensity IX earthquake. The assessment report will identify danger of a failing dam, and provide further understanding of the elements which will include an emergency plan. The table that follows is an assessment of the number of people needing emergency housing due to an Intensity IX earthquake.

Facilities – we check the facilities every day for any hazards or dangers such as wet floors/hall way and any hazards that could cause accidents such as tripping over objects or slipping on wet floors. We must make sure all exits are clear and accessible in case of a fire alarm or emergencies. We check the indoor/outdoor environment

“Security isn’t so much a problem in the school, but this is another precaution that we can take,” says Pat Gallagher, an American physicist and the eighteenth chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh. The run/fight and lockdown drills would not work in some situations, when gunmen come into the school or try to break in. Woodlynde needs a security guard to protect the children and teachers while they try to run away from school or hide inside the rooms. This is why Woodlynde needs security guards and not just the safety drills inside Woodlynde’s protection routine.

For example, the keys the university residence halls use are all stamped “Property of University of Illinois-Do Not Duplicate" so that there is no duplicate keys; the keys are all coded with core numbers instead of room numbers so that even if students lost their keys criminals cannot match the keys with a particular room. All residence halls entrance requires card access so that non-university faculty and students cannot enter the residence halls and all users of campus buildings are instructed not to prop open the doors for other people. In addition, residence halls are focus areas University police officers are assigned to; there are patrols held by both police officers and student patrol teams during late night hours, and they are responsible for reporting repairing or maintenance of lighting and other potential safety problems. Also, crime prevention specialists make recommendations and assessments about security systems designed for new campus facilities. After introduction to the campus facilities and systems help to prevent crimes, the article lists eight different programs that University employs to reduce the opportunities for crimes. For example, university police officers are all assigned for different focus areas; emergency phones offer a direct line to the university police department are located throughout campus, easy to identify and Safewalks are provided for students who have to walk alone at night. Despite for

Additionally the category closet and storage along with parking area and entrances were considered to be safe in all criteria’s. The assessment summary resulted in sixty safe and eighteen unsafe criteria. The safety score was .79.