In recent years the COF has made significant progress in enhancing the emergency preparedness programs across all six of our institutions. This has been as a result of great teamwork amongst each campus’ Public Safety Department, key leadership, emergency preparedness committees, and many other dedicated people from across the COF. Unfortunately we continue to witness events that negatively impact the city of Boston, our nation, and the entire world.
Two significant projects and initiatives have been a part of building the COF emergency preparedness program; the first has been implementing new COF Emergency Response Guides across all campuses and the other is rolling out new Active Threat Training to the COF community. More than 900 Emergency Response guides have been placed in classrooms, auditoriums, and lobby areas within the past year. All of the COF institutions have also begun to implement a new Active Threat Training Video to their communities. This video has been shared campus-wide at several institutions and other institutions have held open forum training sessions for students, faculty, and staff.
The COF emergency preparedness programs will continue the commitment to plan, educate, train, share resources, and communicate information that is important in helping us respond to any emergencies we encounter. This is the best way to mitigate the impact of critical events and keep our community from harm’s way.