Empower Your Faculty and Inspire Student Confidence with Integrated Safety Solutions
Schools should be a place where students feel free to grow, learn, and explore. That’s only possible if they feel comfortable and safe enough to do so. You can inspire that confidence through your staff—with teachers who encourage interaction, feedback, and even pushback. But it’s not just emotional security that matters in a school.
Having a physically secure environment is equally important, but you need to accomplish it in a way that still makes the space welcoming. At Westco Security Systems, we have decades of experience navigating school safety concerns. Our school security installations incorporate surveillance and access control to create an almost invisible safety net for your campus.
Eliminate Threats Quickly With Advanced Access Control
Limiting who enters your campus should be the first step of any security system. And you can’t do that properly anymore with traditional keys. Instead, approved staff should have mobile credentials and encrypted fobs. Not only are these less likely to be lost, but they also provide your school with extensive security logs of who was in the building and when. Video intercoms make it easy for your office staff to vet visitors and grant them entry without leaving their desks.
An added benefit of these systems is the ability to place all locks under unified control. This lets you have a “set it and forget it” schedule that automatically locks and unlocks doors based on your school schedule and any after-school activities. Meanwhile, a lockdown command, either at the end of the day or during an emergency, lets you immediately secure all doors.
Proactively Monitor What Is Happening on Your Campus
Having constant visibility into campus activities is important for overall safety. But simply recording incidents isn’t enough. Avoid having security staff sift through hours of footage by using smart analytics that automatically flag unusual activity (like a door propped open) and notify your staff to investigate. Cameras can also flag loud noises or vaping.
Beyond identifying external threats and enabling quick response, analytics also makes it easier to find specific footage. If there is an incident between students, it’s easy to find supporting evidence based on the time of day or what they were wearing. You’ll have objective information to help settle disputes. This search function also lets you find supporting footage you may have to provide to authorities after an incident.
Communicate Efficiently During an Emergency
The key to an effective school security strategy is combining all your systems (fire, security, intercoms, surveillance) into a single platform to enable a unified response. Take a fire, for example. When the fire sensor goes off, all doors unlock, and your intercom system gives direct instructions on where to go. In another scenario, a panic button could share precise location data to responders while instituting a school-wide lockdown behind the scenes.
Our team is committed to protecting the students and faculty who make our community great. We can do a walk-through of your facility and build a long-term security roadmap for your campus. If you’re interested, call us or fill out our contact form.
