ACCIDENT REPORTS

Students

Accident reports must be filled out promptly any time a student is hurt. Accident reports are available from Diane Cuello. Please fill out in black or blue pen only (not pencil) and return to Diane.

Staff

All building staff accidents must be reported to MedCore at 1-800-775-5866. Report your accident to an administrator when the injury occurs. An Accident Report packet must be filled out within 24 hours for every personal injury, occupational discomfort, or District property loss related to the injury. Pick up the packet of forms from Diane and return completed forms to her. If your injury requires a visit to the doctor, you must call Gayla Davis (Ad Bldg) 942-2417, as soon as possible to request a self-insurer claim form number.

BUILDING SECURITY

Security of our buildings is becoming more and more of a problem. Students have been allowed to enter the classroom buildings after doors have been locked by the custodians. Consequently, it is a continued problem to custodians who must keep checking outside doors after students leave and fail to close doors securely. The custodians have limited time to get the buildings ready for the next day. If that time is spent chasing students out of the halls and checking outside doors every few minutes, they don't have time to clean your rooms properly.

Please help us control this situation by:

1. Helping to clear halls of lingering students who have no business in the building. Custodians will

lock outside doors to High School halls at 3:00 p.m.

2. Not letting students into buildings after 3:00 p.m. unless you also see that they are out when you leave.

3. Not giving your keys to ANY student to enter a building. Athletes must get their equipment out of the hall lockers before they turn out for practice.

4. Custodians will unlock outside doors to classroom hallways at 6:30 a.m.

5. Pushing or pulling on all doors as you enter or depart to make sure they are closed.

Please do not allow students to come in before 6:30 a.m. unless you intend to supervise them yourself. In order to avoid premature entrance by students to buildings, please make sure the door is locked tightly behind you after you enter.

Thank you for your help and cooperation in this matter.

EMERGENCIES

Always assume there will be regular classes at the regularly scheduled time. Do not respond to any rumor to the contrary.

Each teacher is responsible to open the classroom and supervise the students for whom he or she is ordinarily responsible during that class period. In emergencies students are easier to manage in groups of 30 than in larger groups, so keep students in the classroom for the period of time they ordinarily meet with you. Any change from the regular schedule or routine will be announced in person by a principal over the intercom or in a written memo.

Our phones and intercom systems are connected to the electrical system; when there is no electricity, the intercom and phone are not in operation.

If cold or darkness forces you and your students out of your classroom, the best place to take them is to the cafeteria.

EVACUATION DRILL AND EMERGENCY EXIT PROCEDURES

By law we are required to participate in a designated number of complete-campus evacuations of buildings each school year. Teachers are responsible for their own students during an evacuation drill, so please become familiar with the following procedures:

General Instructions: When an emergency alarm is sounded ALL personnel, students and adults, should clear the building and locate themselves in the areas designated on the following Emergency Exit Route Map. Note that all rooms and clusters with outside exits leave through the outside doors.

All rooms or clusters having outside doors should exit through them.

Every teacher is responsible for his or her group of students. The last teacher to leave the cluster or room should be sure all doors are closed.

Unless otherwise advised, students should not make any stops before moving to their assigned emergency waiting area. Students should leave the building quickly and quietly.

No individuals, except those authorized through various specific assignments should be in any courtyard area. All groups should form at least 100 feet from any building. There should be no one in parking lots and no one in fire lanes between the two gyms, between the gym and cafeteria or between the 100 building and the auditorium. No one should remain in the teacher conference/workrooms during an evacuation.

All personnel should be familiar with the procedure to follow in the cafeteria, library, auditorium and gyms.

Do not re-enter the buildings under any circumstances until the all-clear is signaled.

If the emergency exit is for a legitimate emergency, you will be notified. Evacuation drills will be pre-announced in the faculty section of the daily bulletin. For example, “ED p.2.” means there will be an evacuation drill during period 2. If the emergency exit alarm is false, the all-clear will be signaled indicating you may return to the classrooms.

There are only three emergency waiting areas that are 100 feet from buildings and not causing student traffic to cross fire lanes or parking lots:

1. Grassy area west of the auditorium.

2. Grassy area north of the Falcon and Eyrie Gyms.

3. Grassy area east of the 300 and 400 wings.

Please locate the exit route for your classroom(s), the library, auditorium, gyms, and cafeteria on the map.

ILL AND/OR INJURED STUDENT PROCEDURE

Ill and/or injured students should never be allowed to go home without checking out through the Attendance Office. Parents must be contacted by the office before a student is sent home.

Please follow this procedure:

1. If a student becomes too ill to remain in class, send him/her to the office. If the student is injured and/or seriously incapacitated, call the office for assistance. Stay with the student until help arrives. If a teacher leaves a classroom, please make sure another teacher is supervising the class during the regular teacher's absence.

2. The Attendance Office will evaluate the student's condition and decide if the student should be treated and sent back to class, sent home, or remain in the Nurse’s Office for a short period and then return to class.

3. If the student is to be sent home, the parent (or the parent's designee) will be contacted before allowing the student to leave campus. The school cannot accept the responsibility for allowing a student to leave campus without first notifying the parent. Make students aware of this rule. The student should make sure the Attendance Office has accurate home phone numbers as well as business phone numbers of both parents and numbers of close neighbors and/or relatives who might be contacted in case of an emergency.

4. When a teacher allows a student to come to the sickroom, please issue a hall pass to him/her and check with the Attendance Office later to see if the student reported to the office. The student will be given an admit slip for the time spent in the health room. Teachers should request an admit slip from student upon return to class if he/she did not appear on the excused absence list. Excused absence list will indicate the period(s) that the student was excused from class.