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stakeholder organizations within Higher Education – have led to much targeted guidance on dealing with all hazards on a college or university campus.
CAMPUS SAFETY AND SHRINKING BUDGETS
When choosing the mix of security elements needed to protect a campus and to minimize the after effects of campus calamities, the inevitable ultimately rears its ugly head: the budget. Univer- sities need to find a cost-effective total solution for security that ensures that staff, faculty, and students are as safe as feasibly possible.
My company’s campus safety training is being offered to univer- sities across the nation to educate students and faculty in an enter- taining and, therefore, highly retentive way so that when an emer- gency happens, everyone is prepared. Our training meets the ‘gamer generation’s’ learning style with animation and interactive teaching.
State and federal requirements are met and the training helps to lower the liability of the institution by creating a report of ev- ery student and faculty’s successful completion of training which can be done 24/7 from any computer.
It’s our passion to bring campus safety training to each cam- pus in an easy-to-use format for a nominal cost to the university. The student is trained and tested on the correct responses to each emergency such as fire, earthquake, weather, power outage, etc.,
and they are taught to protect themselves from life threats. RJWestmore Campus Training provides cutting-edge technology that is a must for any university concerned with the well-being and safety of their faculty and students. This system requires no changes to an institution’s website and can, in many states, allow local fire departments to access information on the way to an emergency;
thereby allowing them to get to the source of the emergency faster. Engaging a contract security company that specializes in high- er education, trains their staff on the specific challenges and re- porting regulations of campus security, and that has the staffing resources across the required geography is the best choice. Highly experienced companies in this arena understand how their teams can work in conjunction with campus police and area firefighters and know how to create a strategy for the best possible security
solution to prevent and address campus calamities.
Serious natural disasters and man-made catastrophes demon- strate that all the time and resources devoted to disaster resource
planning is essential to an educational institu- tion’s survival. Whether the road to recovery is a quick jaunt or a marathon of a journey, the pay- off is priceless.
Frank Spano, JD, is the director of Education Security Services at Allied Universal.
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