Risk Management Department

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Risk Management Department

• Safety Committees
• September, 2005

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Safety Committees

• Why worry about safety?
• What is a Safety Committee?
• What does a Safety
• Committee do?
• Reporting accidents and losses

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Safety Committees

• Safety responsibilities
• Board of Education
• District Administration
• Risk Management
• Site Administrators
• Employees
• Students
• Community

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Safety Committees

• Why worry about safety?
• Costs
• Injuries
• Disruption

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Safety Committees

• Why worry about safety?
• Losses cost millions of dollars!
• For example, last year
• Employee injuries 1.9M!
• Liability/Property losses 1.9M!
• Total 3.8Million!

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Safety Committees

• Why worry about safety?
• Disruption to education and our work!

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Safety Committees

• What is a Safety Committee?
• Procedural Directive School Safety requires
  schools to have safety committees
• Safety Committee focuses on reducing losses
• Can also be existing committee

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Safety Committees

• What does a Safety Committee do?
• Helps the administrator by
• Assisting in identifying hazards
• Meeting regularly to review accidents and
  losses

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Safety Committees

• What does a Safety Committee do?
• Making recommendations to correct hazards
  and prevent future losses
• Facilitating an effective safety culture

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Safety Committees

• Identifying Hazards
• Periodic inspections
• Look for hazards and unsafe conditions
• What might cause an accident?
• What might be a security risk?

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Safety Committees

• Review Loss Data
• What has caused an accident/loss?
• How could it have been prevented?
• Identify trends and patterns

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Safety Committees

• Recommendations
• Correcting hazards
• Changing work practices
• Recommending rules
• Suggestions for training

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Safety Committees

• Safety Culture
• An environment where everyone
• Takes responsibility for personal
• safety and safety of others!
• Follows all safety rules!
• Makes suggestions to improve safety!
• Promptly reports accidents, losses and unsafe
  conditions!

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Safety Committees

• Reporting accidents and losses
• Employee Injuries
• Student Injuries
• Property Loss/Damage
• Vehicle Accidents

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Safety Committees

• Reporting accidents and losses
• Employee injuries
• State law requires notice to principal/manager
  within 15 days
• Notice of Accident must be
• completed and submitted to supervisor

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Safety Committees

• Reporting accidents and losses
• Student injuries
• Accident form to be completed following
• Medication error - Copy also goes to Nursing
  Services
• Emergency call - 911 - life threatening situation
• Further medical care recommended
• Sustains head injury (e.g., blows to the head,
  whip lash, injuries around eye socket, or any
  other questionable injury to the head which in
  the opinion of the Nurse/Health Assistant
  warrants documentation)
• Faulty equipment or unsafe condition existed

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Safety Committees

• Reporting accidents and losses
• Property Losses
• Police report
• MO
• Capital Outlay
• Risk Management
• Vehicle Accidents (District owned-vehicles)
• APS Vehicle Accident Report

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Safety Committees

• Reporting accidents and losses
• Forms and instructions on Risk
• Management Departments
• website
• http//www.aps.edu/aps/riskmgmt/index.html

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Safety Committees

• Who should be on our Safety Committee?
• Management
• Employees
• Teachers, secretaries, custodial, etc.
• Parents
• Students

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Safety Committees

• Questions?
• Survey
• Contact us Risk Management
• 342-7209