Establishing A Uniform Visitor Screening Procedure
The building principal should develop and implement specific procedures to screen and monitor visitors and potential campus intruders. As mentioned earlier in this section, signs directing visitors to the office should be placed in strategic, visible locations and should be large enough to attract visitors’ notice. To ensure maximum security, building principals should develop a policy requiring all visitors to sign in at the school office, state their specific business, and visibly display a visitor’s badge. The application of visitor screening policies will be ineffective until the building principal advises all school employees of their responsibilities to greet any unidentified person and direct them to the main office to ensure these persons have legitimate business at the school.
See Exhibit 1-1.15 Visitors Screening Policy Memo
Teachers and staff should be trained to courteously challenge all visitors. “May I help you?” is a kind, non-threatening way to begin. An example of a visitor screening policy has been given in Exhibit 1-1.16.
