SAFETY RESOURCES

Following are safety and security resources that agents and insurers can recommend to their policyholders.

Safety Advantage Network was developed by Indiana Insurance to help schools deal with all safety issues including natural disasters, fires and onsite hazards. The network provides policyholders access to specialists around the country in specific areas including: school violence prevention; sexual abuse prevention; employment screening best practices; and online safety training, among others topics. The network members are:

Safe Havens International is a non-profit school safety center that provides training and resources to make schools safer. Staff analysts help schools internalize school safety expertise through the development of customized crisis plans tailored to a school’s or organization’s needs.

Childhelp’s Good Touch-Bad Touch program is nationally recognized as a premier abuse prevention program. Designed for pre-school and kindergarten through sixth grade students, educators are trained to teach this curriculum, which gives children positive, non-threatening and practical information and skills they need to play a role in the prevention or interruption of sexual abuse and bullying.

Safe Hiring Solutions is an employment screening firm that specializes in pre-employment background checks and employee drug screening, among other services. With more than 70 years of combined law enforcement experience on its management team, Safe Hiring Solutions’ web-based InstaScreen system enables schools and other clients to order and retrieve comprehensive reports 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Summit Trainingweb combines researched safety content with video; graphics; animation; interactions and narration in providing more than 100 online training courses that address safety issues.

SawStop has created a woodshop cabinet saw that stops and retracts the saw blade within five milliseconds of sensing an object with the same electrical signature as a finger. Approximately 60,000 tables saw accidents occur annually, but in SawStop demonstrations, accidental contact with objects similar to a finger yield little more than a slight cut.