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Hazardous
Weather
Awareness Week
February 16 - February 22
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The primary function of the District’s Safety Department
is to conduct the Annual Comprehensive Fire, Casualty and
Sanitation Inspection Report for every site either owned
or leased by the School Board. Another responsibility is
to maintain and coordinate the District’s Emergency
Preparedness Program. A component of the Emergency Preparedness
Program pertains to the hazardous weather conditions that
we experience here in South Florida.
This issue of The 411 coincides with Florida’s Hazardous
Weather Awareness Week, which is observed each February.
The week is coordinated by the Florida Department of Community
Affairs, Division of Emergency Management. A weather-related
event is scheduled for each day of this week in an effort
to raise public awareness. Lightning, hurricanes, tornados,
marine hazards, temperature extremes and wild fires are
the focus of these events.
A statewide school tornado drill is scheduled at 9 a.m.
on the Wednesday of Hazardous Weather Awareness Week. Tornado
drill procedures can be found in the Emergency Preparedness
Book that is supplied to each school and available on our
Web site. Please take the time to locate and review this
material to be familiar with the procedures. As Florida
Hazardous Weather Awareness Week 2003 approaches, additional
information will be sent out to all schools.
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Money Saved,
Mold Prevented With High-Tech Maintenance System |
Preventative measures, efficiency and cost effectiveness
are integral to every world-class maintenance organization
and the School Board of Broward County is no different.
That’s why the District recently employed the EMS
Andover System, which allows maintenance personnel to access
the HVAC and refrigeration system as well as view the kilowatts
used in association with these and other electrically powered
equipment in each of the District’s schools. That,
in turn, will enable the District to conserve energy through
monitoring energy usage, ensure the most cost effective
and best practices and be proactive in its approach to maintenance.
Maintenance staff members are already busy monitoring the
HVAC system levels, including supply and return chilled
water temperatures, on/off times, room temperature, humidity
levels, power output and history logs. One of the by-products
of monitoring the HVAC system in this prescribed manner
is the reduction of humidity, which is a leading cause of
mold and mildew in our schools.
The success of the program is reliant upon working in tandem
with school-based staff; future plans for the program will
involve specialized training in the use and related benefits
of the EMS Andover System. In the long run, the implementation
of this system and the maintenance programs that evolve
from it will result in saved energy dollars that can instead
be used toward our real goal: education.
For additional information about this effort, please call
Sylvester Davis at 954-928-0204.
TRIVIA ANSWERS:
1) Silver Lakes Elementary
2) Silver Lakes Middle
3) Silver Palms Elementary
4) Silver Ridge Elementary
5) Silver Shores Elementary
6) Silver Trail Middle |
