School Safety 4.0: The Future of Integrated School Safety Systems
The speed of technology is changing everything. Information can be connected and reported in ways that allow for fast and clear decision-making. In critical environments, it is even more important to leverage technology to improve classroom security and assist educators with improved safety response and communication. Communication Company’s School Safety 4.0 model leverages and connects the industry’s best technology solutions to create a best-in-class enterprise solution for your school.
Vulnerability Mapping: The best first step is to map vulnerabilities in each building and for the district as a whole to ensure proper steps are taken to prevent, reduce, and mitigate potential threats for each emergency response condition.
Adaptive Response Practices: Mapping best practices and protocols per industry, state, and custom standards (such as PASS, ALICE, and I Love You Guys) simplifies drills and standard operating procedures to increase successful response outcomes.
Cross-Functional Safety Engagement: Cross-functional collaboration between district boards, staff, resource officers, law enforcement, and community members creates a safety team culture that gains trust through transparency and communication for all concerned stakeholders.
4.0 Integrated Emergency Communication Systems: Telecenter U and various integrated tools make immediate notification and communication to all essential safety partners with a touch of a button and across multiple technology platforms and mobile devices – for the district, campus and classroom.
Onsite Building Access Control: Secured entry access for all buildings and classrooms must be appropriately configured to manage threat prevention. Visitor management and armed security officers are additional protocols needed to ensure system notifications are mitigated as soon as possible.
Safety Systems Training: Communication Company's Application Specialist helps your management and staff assess, map, train, and modify systems for successful adoption in a shorter time.
District-wide Enterprise Solutions: Rauland Telecenter U is a secure, scalable application that provides multi-facility support, reduces capital and operational expenses, saves time for safety administrators, and supports the creation and optimization of standardized safety protocols.
ComCare Managed Services: Communication Company offers two levels of managed services to oversee your alarm and system monitoring, maintenance, and annual test and inspect support.
How can I implement the School Safety 4.0 Model into my school?
A member of our K-12 Education team will first conduct an assessment of your school to identify specific safety and security communication issues and whether the current methods of addressing these issues are effective. We’ll also look at key metrics you are hoping to improve, such as average response times, number of notifications and number of incidents. Together, we will set goals for your immediate school safety, security, and communication systems needs. Our team will then review our assessment, your goals, and metrics to design the local or enterprise solutions tailored to your facility.
Our team will work with you quarterly or annually to track your goals and will help assess how your team can improve workflows and leverage the system to achieve results. In addition to your frequent impact metrics scorecard review, we will provide a ComCare service report showing the services we provide to keep your systems functioning and updated.
To learn more about how to integrate our School Safety 4.0 model into your school system, visit our dedicated Education web page or contact a member of our Education team today.
