School Safety

• Provide vehicle access around buildings to permit night surveillance and access by emergency vehicles and fire equipment.
• Minimize blind spots by using crime prevention landscaping.
• Keep school grounds free of gravel or loose rock surfaces.
• Paint directional signs on curbs or streets.
• Place dumpsters far enough away from buildings so that they do not serve as ladders to upper floors and roofs.
• Put meters, transformers, valves and other mechanical or electrical devices inside buildings or in locked, fenced areas.
• Mount flag poles on the roof and provide nylon-covered wire halyards and locked cover boxes for halyard cleats.
• Limit roof access by securing exposed drains, window frames, stored items, decorative ledges, vehicles and other things onto which a person can climb or grasp.
• Limit walkway cover near second floor windows.
• Install exterior lights with break resistant lenses or mesh covers and light standards made of galvanized steel or concrete to illuminate the exterior of buildings and surrounding grounds.