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Oregon · Through 2025 Edition

ORS 339.405: Comprehensive safety program; rules.

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  1. 09 - Education and Culture
  2. 30. Education and Culture
  3. Chapter 339 — School Attendance; Admission; Discipline; Safety

(1) As used in this section:

      (a) “Evacuate” means a procedure used when students and staff need to move from one location to another.

      (b) “Hold” means a procedure used to keep students and staff in classrooms while a disruption or minor emergency is resolved.

      (c) “Lockdown” means a procedure used when a threat or hazard is inside the building.

      (d) “Secure” means a procedure used when a threat or hazard is outside the building.

      (e) “Shelter in place” is a procedure used to respond to and take protective actions based on a threat or hazard that may include an earthquake, tsunami or other natural or environmental hazard.

      (2) Each school district must maintain a comprehensive safety program for all students and staff. The program must include procedures for:

      (a) Responding to emergency situations that address an immediate threat to safety, including an evacuation, a hold, a lockdown, a secure and a shelter in place;

      (b) Providing communicable disease management;

      (c) Responding to medical emergencies; and

      (d) Providing instruction as described in ORS 339.408.

      (3) The State Board of Education may adopt rules related to a program required under this section.

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