COVID-19 School Support
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School Reopening SupportThe frontline for all communities, for all families, is the one that protects its children. Teachers and school administrators across the nation have met the challenge of continuing to provide important instruction while measures to ensure the welfare of a nation took precedence above all else. We learned the meaning of social distancing, PPE, and quarantining. Looking ahead to next school year, our learning institutions must define a “new normal.” Just weeks ahead of a September return to the classroom, educational leaders are preparing to open schools in a manner that ensures for their communities a safe and healthful environment for all students and staff.
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In this fast-evolving COVID-19 environment, educators will be hard pressed by boards of education, collective bargaining units, parents, and government agencies to have plans, processes, and protocols that allow children to safely return to school in a timely manner.
EAS understands the need for information to inform decision-making, systems to guide procedure, and transparent communication to engage the support of the community. Our team consists of a retired NYS School Administrator with 25 years of school and district leadership experience as principal and superintendent of schools with expertise in facilities, operations, personnel, budgeting, and board of education and community engagement. It includes a highly credentialed environmental health and safety professional who over 25 years has analyzed, developed, implemented, and managed environmental controls that have ensured public safety and the welfare of thousands in the workplace. And lastly, the team is rounded out by an organizational development consultant who has spent more than 20 years working with various sectors, including financial services, global food and packaged goods, higher education and government, specializing in change management issues. Blending expert-derived scientific data with a nuanced understanding of school operations, our team can assist you in ensuring that you are prepared for what will undoubtedly be one of the most challenging school years in generations.
EAS understands the need for information to inform decision-making, systems to guide procedure, and transparent communication to engage the support of the community. Our team consists of a retired NYS School Administrator with 25 years of school and district leadership experience as principal and superintendent of schools with expertise in facilities, operations, personnel, budgeting, and board of education and community engagement. It includes a highly credentialed environmental health and safety professional who over 25 years has analyzed, developed, implemented, and managed environmental controls that have ensured public safety and the welfare of thousands in the workplace. And lastly, the team is rounded out by an organizational development consultant who has spent more than 20 years working with various sectors, including financial services, global food and packaged goods, higher education and government, specializing in change management issues. Blending expert-derived scientific data with a nuanced understanding of school operations, our team can assist you in ensuring that you are prepared for what will undoubtedly be one of the most challenging school years in generations.
Written Policies |
As a school administrator, it's understandable if you feel that you are just emerging from one trial, that is the sudden and unexpected shut down of in classroom instruction and migration to distance learning strategies and you already need to mobilize and prepare for the fast approaching fall reopening. While changes in the current COVID-19 health data may necessitate changes and course corrections, all schools must be prepared for a fall reopening. Since the format and approach will likely be significantly different from what you have experienced previously, the need to continue or possibly, begin the planning process requires immediate action.
EAS can assist your team in addressing the myriad issues that you are currently facing. Written programs, while a proven means of refining ideas and organizing potentially complex steps and tasks, can be time consuming and difficult to formulate and write. EAS can assist you in developing required and recommended programs and policies including:
Regardless of where you are in the process, whether you are finalizing your plans and procedures or just starting to get your arms around the issues, EAS' blended expertise can assist you in getting back to what you know and excel in: developing our children and youngsters. |
Tracking Services |
Written policies generate data that need to be documented, tracked and managed in order to end up with useful information. We can assist you in developing automation tools to make this aspect of your program both comprehensive and streamlined. We can provide online tools:
All data tools can be developed as "smart" tools with conditional logic to minimize manual processing and trigger next steps. All data can also be exported in common file formats into existing school IT systems. These tools can also be used to generate reports to document your compliance with federal standards and state requirements. |
Training and Field Support |
EAS provides a range of training, from school specific sessions that are tailored to specific school needs to open enrollment training that provides individuals with training that is applicable across a range of employers.
This training includes 2 hr and 4 hr sessions, addressing the needs of workers ranging from COVID awareness training for teachers and school staff to hazard specific training for personnel involved in cleaning and disinfection activities. Our training can be developed as both live instructor led classes as well as on demand webinar based sessions to accommodate the needs of differents schools and personnel. EAS also provides field support, including field inspections and risk assessments as well as pre and post COVID-19 positive clean up assessments, that include real-time testing technology which provides immediate information on non-virus specific cleanup efficacy as well as coronavirus specific swab samples which can identify the presence or absence of the virus that causes COVID-19 within 12 hours of sample collection. In addition to assessing the effectiveness of clean up efforts, these technologies can be used to establish prudent preventive cleaning schedules. We can also work with your facilities management personnel to support them in providing the best possible environment to your students and staff. |
Complimentary
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If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to us at info@eassafety.com or by phone at 800-699-5986. Also, take us up on our complimentary 30 minute consultation. Please email us to set up a convenient time.
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