Risk Management

Tsunamis

Catastrophic tsunamis are rare, but we may have a tendency to get complacent and think that one will never happen while we’re at the beach. However, every coastline in the world is vulnerable to a tsunami. Although a tsunami cannot be prevented, you can diminish adverse impacts through community preparedness, timely warnings and effective response.

California’s Tsunami Preparedness Week is held in March. Cal OES, the California Geological Survey (CGS), and the NWS conduct a conference call with emergency managers from counties along the coast to test several aspects of the tsunami response, including the ability of the National Tsunami Warning Center (NTWC) to send and coast emergency organizations to receive specific tsunami alert messages.

During the conference call, representatives from the NTWC, Cal OES and CGS also test their ability to accurately calculate and verify information contained in draft Tsunami Evacuation Playbooks are used by local emergency to determine if an evacuation is necessary and how big of an area.

The test also allows emergency managers from coastal communities to confirm their ability to receive playbook-related information, test their ability to make decisions regarding evacuation, and as well as to test their abilities to communicate information to port and harbor officials, as well as to test their reverse notification and other warning systems reaching people in coastal hazard areas.

Other activities scheduled in coastal counties throughout the state during Tsunami Preparedness Week include tsunami evacuation walk drills, community meetings, workshops, presentations, outreach events, BBQ’s, festivals, 5k runs, and a host of other events.

Tsunami Fact Sheet

The Ocean View School District is a trained member of the Huntington Beach Safe Schools Coalition, which is comprised of local public school districts and schools, private schools and the Huntington Beach Police Department. The Safe Schools Coalition was created to respond to a critical school incident that requires a school evacuation to an offsite location, such as an armed intruder. In the event any of our schools experience a critical incident and must evacuate students offsite, staff from our neighboring schools and school districts, along with police and city employees (members of the Safe Schools Coalition), will activate an evacuation plan, so parents/guardians/authorized persons and their children can be reunified as quickly as possible.

Parent/Guardian/Authorized Person* Information: School Evacuation Procedures

The Huntington Beach Police Department (HBPD) has developed a comprehensive school evacuation plan, which will be used in the event of a critical school incident that requires an evacuation. Police, school and city personnel have been trained and are prepared to implement the plan, which is designed to protect and keep our students safe. In order to maintain student safety during the evacuation process, our schools will rely on parent/guardian/authorized person cooperation.

The following instructions are provided, so parents/guardians/authorized persons will have an overview of the plan and understand the procedures for reuniting with a child after a school evacuation.

Overview:

• In the event of a critical school incident that requires a school evacuation, designated locations have already been established to determine where students will be evacuated and where parents/guardians/authorized persons will come to pick up their children. 
• Our students will be evacuated to the Huntington Beach Central Library (7811 Talbert Ave, Huntington Beach, CA 92647), and our parents/guardians/authorized persons will pick up their children at the adjacent Huntington Beach Sports Complex (18100 Goldenwest St, Huntington Beach, CA 92647). 

Procedure:

• Notification of the school evacuation will be announced through school and District communication systems and through other media sources.
• Parent/Guardian/Authorized Persons: Do NOT GO TO THE SCHOOL as this will decrease safety, slowdown the evacuation process, and result in delays in family reunification.
• Parents/Guardians/Authorized Persons should go to the Huntington Beach Sports Complex and look for a yellow school bus, which will be parked in the northwest corner of the sports complex parking lot. The bus will be used as a landmark to identify the Parent/Guardian/Authorized Persons Check-In Area, which is where you will fill out a check-in form for each child they want to pick up.
• After parents/guardians/authorized persons fill out a check-in form, they will be asked to wait in the Student Release Area, which is located at the Turf Soccer Fields at the sports complex. BRING YOUR ID WITH YOU.

When children are ready to be released, they will be escorted by school personnel from the library to the Student Release Area, where children will be released to the parent/guardian/authorized person. We greatly appreciate your cooperation during a critical school incident and offsite evacuation. We believe this will ensure everyone's safety and the quick reunification of families and children. Our District is dedicated to keeping all students and staff safe, and this is one more way we are prepared to do just that.

*An authorized person is someone who is authorized by a parent/guardian to pick up a student on the student's emergency card on file with the school.

Re:  Student Injuries and Insurance - 2022-2023 School Year

Dear Parent/Legal Guardian:

The safety of our students is of critical importance to all of us and we want to protect them from injury. Even so, accidents do happen (at school and elsewhere) and required medical care can be expensive. Please know that your school does not assume responsibility for such costs but does offer you access to several student accident insurance plans for voluntary purchase. Details can be found in the attached brochure/ enrollment form.

Options are available to cover your child 24/7, anywhere in the world or you can limit coverage to school-related injuries only. The plans do not restrict your choice of doctors or hospitals. However, you will also have access to an extensive network of providers with discounted fees. Seeking care through contracted providers may further reduce your out-of-pocket costs, particularly if your child needs surgery or hospitalization.

Also offered is the pay-as-you-go Student Accident & Sickness Plan which covers sickness as well as injury, in and out of school. The Dental Accident plan can be of particular value with younger students as final treatment to injured teeth often needs to be deferred until after they mature.

Common emergency benefits – Regardless of the benefit level selected, all of the accident medical plans and the Student Accident & Sickness Plan will cover eligible charges for Ambulance, Emergency Room and Emergency Room Physician at 100% of Usual, Customary and Reasonable charges (UCR) up to plan limits.

Enhanced benefits for qualified concussions – If an insured student suffers a concussion while participating in any covered activity and is consequently removed from play from his/her interscholastic sport per the school’s formal concussion protocols, then any deductible or inside limit features of the plan are waived and eligible charges for the evaluation and treatment of the concussion are paid at 100% of UCR subject to remaining policy terms and conditions.

COVID-19 – After schools were physically closed in March of 2020, the administrator of this program - Myers-Stevens & Toohey (MST) worked with the underwriting insurance company to make several adjustments to the insurance program. In brief, they included: 1) qualified extension of coverage to distance learning at home; 2) qualified coverage for COVID-19 testing costs; 3) the addition of Telemedicine as a covered service; 4) qualified extension of coverage for school activities pushed beyond the last day of instruction; 5) related extension of coverage to graduated students participating in such postponed activities and 6) modified claims forms and procedures. Details can be found on the MST website www.myers-stevens.com. At this time, these adjustments continue to apply to the 2021-2022 School Year insurance program. .As matters concerning COVID continue to evolve, updates will be posted on the MST website

You are strongly encouraged to carefully review the information provided. If your child already has health coverage, the student insurance plans offered can also be used to expand choice of providers and help cover the high deductibles and 30% to 40% cost sharing obligations imposed by many health plans today.

To enroll, please visit www.myers-stevens.com; instructions for enrollment are available on the website.  While your child is eligible to enroll at any time, one-time-pay rates for the accident medical plans and Dental Accident Plan are the same regardless of enrollment date. As such, you are encouraged to consider enrollment now in order to include coverage for this summer and the full 2022-2023 School Year. Once processing is completed, an ID card verifying coverage will be mailed home to you.

If you have any questions concerning the coverages available, COVID 19 adjustments or need help with enrollment, please call Myers-Stevens & Toohey at (800) 827-4695. Bilingual representatives are available for parents who need assistance in Spanish.

OCEAN VIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT

714-847-2551, ext. 1412

Keeping our students and staff safe is our number one priority.  Below are safety systems Ocean View School District has in place:

• Activate (Emergency Mass Notification System) - Our OVSD Board of Trustees approved the implementation of the Activate EMNS during the 2018-2019 school year. It allows school and District administrators to quickly send pre-recorded emergency messages from cell phones, desk phones, or computers during an emergency scenario.
  
  With Activate, our students and staff will be made immediately aware of an emergency scenario (e.g. lockdown, shelter in place, evacuation, etc.) and messages will be announced through intercoms, paging systems, phones, and computers, both at the school and District Office levels, for a comprehensive, quick response.
  
  Activate should not be confused with Aeries Communications, which is our text, email and voice messaging system. Communications provides a way to communicate with our parents, guardians and staff in an emergency.
   
• Raptor (visitor/volunteer management system) - Raptor is a visitor/volunteer management system, which enhances school security through database screening and printing of photo identification badges for all visitors/volunteers in our schools. ID badges must be worn at all times on our campuses. Additionally, Raptor allows our District to maintain a database of all visitors and volunteers.
  
  Instant Screening Process:  The Raptor System ensures that all visitors and volunteers to a school campus are instantly screened against the registered sex offender databases in all 50 states.
  
  Custom Databases:  Raptor can check visitors against a school's custom database to ensure safety alerts are managed for school staff.
  
  Efficient Reporting:  The system can also create quick and easy reports for schools, or the entire school district, which can help with tracking volunteer hours.
  
  Trusted Protection:  The Raptor System is used in our neighboring districts and in Orange County and beyond. It is trusted by more K-12 schools to protect students, teachers and support staff than every other system combined.