School District Facility Safety and Security Audits

School District Safety and Security Audit Toolkit (Revised October, 2009)

The October 2009 revised School District Facility Safety and Security Audit Toolkit is now available for download. The audit toolkit consists of two parts, an introduction and the audit checklists. Together these constitute the audit toolkit. The toolkit can be downloaded and printed and also the checklists can be entered and stored electronically.

The introduction contains information about how to begin the audit process at your district facilities. It reviews the purpose of the audit and provides direction about how to set up and conduct an audit. The checklists are a series of excel spreadsheets which provide a format for evaluating a facility and providing data about the observations. Read More..

Download   School District Facility Safety and Security Audit Toolkit Introduction (PDF)

This version is locked to preserve the formatting and to provide added functionality for this document. It allows you to enter all of the findings of your audit as well as basic information about your school. If you are not familiar with excel and you don't have a need to change the audit to fit your needs we recommend you use this version.

Download   School District Facility Safety and Security Audit Toolkit Checklists (LOCKED XLS)

This version is unlocked and allows you to add, edit, and delete any of the audit items to fit your needs. We cannot guarantee the formatting or functionality of this excel document once you have changed it, if you have issues with your altered copy please download a new one.

Download   School District Facility Safety and Security Audit Toolkit Checklists (UNLOCKED XLS)

If you have any questions regarding the school safety and security audits please contact us at 1-877-304-2727.

We have also created several additional data collection tools to help with your safety and security audit process. These tools are an optional way that you may collect data about the perceived safety of your school. Please click on a tool below to view:

Surveys

Interviews

Report Templates

We hope that these tools will help to make the audit process straight-forward and less time-consuming. If you have any questions about this toolkit, please send an email to txssc@txstate.edu.

School District Facility Safety and Security Audit Training

TxSSC has designed a two-day training course for district audit team members that will enable them to perform comprehensive safety and security audits. This training will focus on all parts of the School District Facility Safety and Security Audit Toolkit , as well as best practices in emergency management and school safety. Training will include a walk-through exercise at two facilities in a district, one of which will be a high school with a chemistry lab. Training participants will then have the skills, knowledge, and materials necessary to perform school safety and security audits at additional facilities. Most of these trainings will be provided through the Regional Education Service Centers, but may be provided through districts as well.

For upcoming audit trainings, please visit the TxSSC training calendar.
To receive technical assistance, please send an email to txssc@txstate.edu.

District Audit Report (DAR) 2005 to 2008 Cycle

School District Facility Safety and Security Audit Reporting

The Texas Education code requires school districts to report the results of their security audits under 37.108b not only to their school board, but also to the Texas School Safety Center in the manner required by the center:

37.108(c), Education Code, to require a school district to report the results of security audits to the Texas School Safety Center in addition to the districts board of trustees. (Sections 3.02 and 3.04 of SB 11- 80r.)

The Texas School Safety Center has setup an online system to collect certain results of security audits. This system will be activated for inputs during the last quarter of an audit cycle.

We want to assure school districts that the current School District Facility Safety and Security Audit Toolkit contained on our website covers all elements that will be included in the online audit collection system. The district should complete the audit and save the data to be entered when the system is activated. We will announce on our website and via email when the collection system becomes active.