5 Top Tips for Preparing and Managing Incidents on Campus

Campuses, whether they be a College, University or International School, are often likened to small cities in terms of geographical spread, population and the wide range of facilities in operation. Managing this diverse environment whilst ensuring business continuity and student safety brings with it, many challenges. Incidents can and do occur all year round whether it be a broken window, slip, trip or fall or something more serious like a fire, bomb scare or even a student incident. Talking to many Universities and International Schools we often ask: How prepared are you to handle the incidents that occur? Are the systems in place to help or hinder reaching a resolution? How do the systems you have in place ensure they support your student safety programs?  More often than …

Top 10 Incident Control Challenges for Education Establishments

At ICR we have worked with a variety of education establishments and hear on a daily basis the challenges they are faced with when it comes to handling and recording incidents on a campus. See below the Top 10 challenges that come up time and time again. Incident Control Inefficiencies – Traditional paper based Incident Management solutions are naturally restrictive, the documentation can be rigid and inflexible. Admin and resource inefficiencies are commonplace with issues regarding version control, duplications of work, unclear workflows, the Incident Control Team (ICT) being reactive as opposed to proactive, as well as issues regarding incident handling out of core business hours. Deploying Plans across a Distributed Environment – Deploying up to date plans across the group …