Insights from Experts
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Please find the recording and presentation from the first of 4 tabletop exercises being hosted by the School Collaborative to help schools prepare for a variety of emergency they may face. This session was focused on a Threat to School Transportation. Participants worked through a variety of scenarios as if they were addressing a real emergency. In doing so, they address the 7 core components of emergency preparedness: Assessment Mitigation Preparation Response Recovery Alerting Communication Here are the slides for this session. Emergency Preparedness Table Top 1 .pdf You can also access the recording here. Pleas…
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Webinar Recording - Restarting School Trips - Insights to Challenges that Schools can Expect
by Kevin Lloyd- 0 replies
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School trips are invaluable for the students’ education allowing them to broaden their horizons and learn in new environments. With borders reopening and international travel steadily returning many schools are now looking to restart travel. While travel is becoming easier again there are still many factors to consider when taking pupils abroad to ensure you’ve mitigated any foreseeable risks. Experts from Together School and World Travel Protection discussed challenges that schools will be facing when they return to travel, including:- Risk assessment for trips- Legal standards you need to follow- Management of incidents when abroad- Communications - strategies and …
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Here’s what we know about Omicron
by Kevin Lloyd- 0 replies
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Planning on Traveling? Our partners at World Travel Protection have collected some expert insight on Omicron. As COVID continues to impact international travel, World Travel Protection’s Regional Medical Directors Dr Neil Slabbert (Asia Pacific) and Dr Joel Lockwood (Americas) have answered common questions on the new Omicron variant and how it could impact your decision to travel. It is an evolving situation and there will be more news on the transmissibility/severity over the coming days. This document is based on what was known at the time of writing. WTP - Omicron Variant Fact Sheet.pdf
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Travel is a part of regular operations at International Schools - whether that’s staff travelling from their home country to the school, or students going on international trips and this brings inherent risks. It is a legal requirement with significant implications that risks associated with travel are mitigated. Now the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has created a framework to guide organisations on managing travel risks, which was released in September. While travel risk management has been a key part of an organisation's legal, compliance and duty of care responsibilities for some time, this is the first globally recognised standard. Meeti…
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Building a Campus Resiliency Team
by Mike Johnson- 0 replies
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Best practices within the school community includes the utilization of a Campus Resiliency Team (CRT) or sometimes referred to as a Crisis Management Team or Emergency Action Committee, etc. This group, regardless of its title, not only convenes in response to potential or actual crisis or emergency situations, but also meets on a regular basis to plan and discuss overall safety, security and emergency preparedness policies and strategy that will lead to a more resilient organization. This wider group of stakeholders serves as a “force multiplier” for the direct hire employees charged with managing these programs on a daily basis and assists the campus directors in determ…
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Mike Johnson of Clearpath Alerts and Richard Gaskell CEO of International Education Solutions discuss safety and security solutions that can be useful during the pandemic on a recent episode of TALK-IES.
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Recommendations for Access Control
by Greg Varner- 1 reply
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Recommendations for Access Control during the COVID-19 Pandemic were outlined by Mike Johnson, CEO of Clearpath Alerts and Kevin Lloyd, Director of Together School addressing three primary areas for Access Control: Strategy and Policies, Arrivals and Dismissals, Movement on Campus. As schools reopen, access control has become one of the most important factors enabling schools to reopen, stay open and protect the health and safety of students and staff. Access controls should be implemented based on policies and together facilitate approved access to a school or parts of the school. The importance of an effective Access Control Policy for COVID-19 is that it su…
