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 Blanket Accident and Sickness Insurance - 2025-26 School Year

Dear Parents/Guardians/School Staff:

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.  The District is once again working with Myers-Stevens & Toohey, an insurance company established in 1970, providing student insurance. 

For the 2025-26 school year, Ocean View School District will purchase the Blanket Student Accident and Sickness Insurance offered by Myers-Stevens & Toohey for ALL students.  The Scope of Coverage is as follows:

·         While on school premises during the hours and on days when the school’s regular classes are in session, including one hour immediately before and one hour immediately after regular classes, and while continuously on the school premises.

·         While participating in school-sponsored and supervised activities, including all interscholastic athletics and school-sponsored and approved community services.

·         While participating in school-sponsored and supervised field trips within the U.S., regardless of duration, provided that they remain under the general control of school staff and/or school-designated adult chaperones.

·         While traveling directly and without interruption to and from home and school to attend regularly scheduled classes, school, and off-campus locations to participate in school-sponsored and supervised activities, or in school vehicles anytime.

Parents can now opt to purchase supplemental/additional voluntary plans that would include full-time 24/7 accident only, 24/7 student accident and sickness, and/or dental accident only. If your child already has health coverage, these student insurance plans offered can be used to expand your choice of providers and help cover the high deductibles and 30% to 40% cost-sharing obligations imposed by many health plans today.

To find the claim forms or for more information on the coverages available, visit the District website at www.ovsd.org/departments/risk-management.

To enroll in additional coverages for your student(s), please visit www.myers-stevens.com. Instructions are available on their website.

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.