PREPARATION
Faculty and staff will review emergency procedures annually before school opening.
Advisory teacher will teach emergency procedures to advisory students during the first week of school.
Advisory teacher will keep an emergency packet near the classroom exit containing:
A current list of advisory students and a pen or pencil for taking attendance
Note paper for recording names of absent students
Secretary will keep emergency packet with name and contact information for every student, and pens.
Advisors and secretary are responsible for bringing out emergency packet during evacuations.
EMERGENCY DRILLS
Utah International will hold at least four emergency drills per year. Including two fire drills, one within the first 10 days of school, one earthquake drill, and one violent intruder or lockdown drill.
EVACUATION PROCESS
Adults instruct students and are the last out of the area. Close window (if possible) and door behind you. Use the designated exit if possible, and assist students to the gathering area. Check restrooms and other small areas for students on your way out.
Gathering area (if safe and available) is the lawn southeast of the school’s main entrance. Advisory teacher will select a spot that can be seen from the main entrance, show students the location, and teach them to gather there after evacuating.
Students check in with their advisory teacher and stand or sit on the lawn near them.
Secretary brings out emergency packet and the day’s absence list if available.
Advisory teacher (or substitute) takes attendance, writes names of missing students, sends a student to the secretary or admin team member with these names.
Office staff and secretary check absence list and assure that all students in the building are accounted for.
Office staff or secretary will give the all-clear for reentry.
Students and adults re-enter building and return to class.
DESIGNATED EXITS
Exits are designated to reduce bottlenecks and make it easier to gather everyone in the same place.
If your room’s designated exit is blocked or there is an imminent threat, go to another exit even if it takes you to the backyard area or separates your students from the rest of the population.
The main exits are east, west, and south of the building. Gym can be exited out of the north doors.
FIRE AND FIRE DRILL
In case of an actual fire, inform the office to pull the red fire alarm handle, and then evacuate.
When the fire alarm rings OR there is a PA instruction to evacuate, evacuate the nearest exit.
EARTHQUAKE AND EARTHQUAKE DRILL
For an earthquake drill, there will be a PA announcement to “Cover and Hold” for an earthquake, followed by a long bell tone to signify the length of the “shaking.”
Students and adults should crouch under tables, ensuring that their heads and necks are covered.
When the “shaking” stops, evacuate the building as for a fire drill.
In a real earthquake, warn evacuating students to walk slowly and carefully and watch for broken glass and other hazards.
VIOLENT INTRUDER/ LOCKDOWN DRILL
The PA announcement for a drill or, if possible, for a real intruder will be “teachers, please lock down” For a threat in the neighborhood, the PA announcement will be “We are in a soft lockdown. Please do not leave the building.”
For a soft lockdown, teachers should instruct students to remain inside the building. Office and counseling staff should ensure that all exterior doors are locked. Instruction should continue. During the lunch break, office staff should get a helper to inform staff on lunch duty in person. Students outside should be brought into the building, and the doors secured.
For a hard lockdown, teachers should round up any students in the halls and lock and close their classroom doors as quickly as possible. Students should remain quiet and move out of the line of sight of the window.
Teacher should close the window and door shades if possible.
If someone in the room is injured or has information about the intruder, the teacher or one designated student should make a cell phone call to 911.
In the gym, move students to the kitchen area and close and lock kitchen doors and windows.
Remain in lockdown position until you receive an “all clear” announcement from the PA or from the door by an administrator or police officer. If you don’t recognize the voice, ask for ID to be slid under the door.
BUILDING UNUSABLE
In case of an emergency in which we can’t safely reoccupy the building, we will take students to the southwest lawn.
BAD WEATHER
Utah International will open for school regardless of bad weather, unless an announcement is made on KSL radio and KSL.com, and on the school’s website and Facebook and Instagram pages. If Granite schools are closed or having an online-only day, there is a high likelihood that Utah International will close or have a late start. Parents should use their best judgment if the weather in their area is dangerous; students will be excused from school if they aren’t able to get to school safely. Students will not be sent home early due to bad weather, but parents may check students out early for this reason. After-school programs may be canceled due to bad weather. A full day of cancellation for bad weather will probably have to be made up at the end of the school year. A late-start day will not have to be made up.
INJURY OR MEDICAL EMERGENCY
Call 911 from a teacher or student’s cell phone in case of life-threatening emergency. This includes suspected spinal cord injury, heavy bleeding, person not breathing. School address is 3761 South 1100 East, Millcreek, Utah 84106. Teachers should use cell phones, white call buttons, or student runners to alert the office if someone is seriously injured or ill, whether or not 911 is called. Render first aid and if possible, move all students except one or two helpers to a neighboring classroom or the cafeteria until the issue is resolved. A student who needs hospital care should be transported by a parent, by ambulance if serious of life-threatening, or in rare cases and with administrator and parent permission, by a staff member. The nearest hospital is HCA St. Marks at 3900 South 1300 East. There is a public health clinic at 3690 South Main.
CRIME AND CRIME PREVENTION
For a crime in progress, call 911.
To report a crime after the fact, call Unified 801-840-4000.
To report vandalism, theft, alarm malfunction, or other building problem, call Granite District Police at 801 481-7122.
To prevent crime:
- Close your classroom or office windows when you leave for the day.
- Lock your door when your classroom is empty; lock your computer and personal valuables in a cabinet when your classroom can’t be locked.
- Secure exterior doors, set alarm, and call Granite District Police when you are the last one out of the building.
- Enforce student use of lockers to secure their own valuables.
