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In an effort to meet the requirements of the New Jersey’s Anti‐Bullying Bill of Rights and improve and maintain student safety, Freehold Borough School District is launching an online risk management, incident reporting and prevention platform called TIPS. The TIPS platform equips all students, parents, faculty, staff and others to safely and anonymously or non‐anonymously report concerning behaviors and suspicious incidents. An award‐winning suite of web‐based risk management tools developed by the privately held organization Awareity, TIPS empowers individuals to anonymously report suspicious activities and incidents involving bullying, cyberbullying, weapons, drug/alcohol use, school vandalism, threats of violence, suicide risk, sexual harassment, abuse, truancy and numerousRead More →

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In order to ensure compliance with the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association’s (OSSAA) policies and rules, Tulsa Public Schools (TPS) has implemented the TIPS platform from Awareity. TIPS allows all TPS coaches and athletic department personnel to have on‐demand access to required compliance tests, athletic/student handbooks, consent forms, and more. With TIPS, the TPS Athletic Director Gil Cloud and staff can ensure all coaches have read and understand their individual roles and responsibilities for determining student scholastic eligibility, residence eligibility, student conduct, participation, recruiting, physical exams, etc. TIPS requires all coaches to login to a secure platform, review the OSSAA compliance manual, complete a testRead More →

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Bilingual Reporting System Will Address & Track Bullying Incidents The state’s largest school district is offering a new tool to report (hotline and online), track and address bullying or other potentially harmful incidents. The Oklahoma City Public School District (OKCPS) is launching 587‐STOP, a bilingual incident reporting system available to OKCPS students, parents and staff. The reporting method is developed through Awareity’s TIPS (Threat Assessment, Incident Management and Prevention Services) system which was purchased with a state grant. “OKCPS must provide a safe environment in order for our students to reach their academic goals and be successful. This new system provides another tool in reporting,Read More →

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Awareity, the leading provider of risk management and prevention solutions for education, announced it has received an Honorable Mention Reader’s Choice Award from eSchool Media, publishers of eSchoolNews.com, eCampusNews.com and eClassroomNews.com. Based on votes from nearly 1,400 readers, the Awareity’s incident reporting and risk management solution, TIPS, was named one of the best ed‐tech products of the year. “We are honored to have been recognized by the readers of eSchool Media as TIPS is a new and innovative platform that early adopter school leaders are calling a game changer for their school and community,” said Rick Shaw, CEO and President of Awareity. “Students want bullyingRead More →

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  We know from a lot of research and lessons learned that the right information comes in many different forms and the right people includes many different individuals who can be located in many different places who need the right information at many  different times so they can all do the right things.  The next critical effort in the process of doing the right things involves the right documentation. The right documentation is required and/or critically needed for: Compliance with Federal Laws Compliance with State Laws Compliance with Organizational Policies & Standards Legal Due Diligence in potential lawsuits Ongoing Risk Management and Risk Assessment EffortsRead More →

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  We know from research and lessons learned that in order for organizations and individuals to prevent incidents and do the right things, organizations and all appropriate people must be equipped with the right tools to get the right information to the right people in the right places at the right times with the right documentation so individuals can do the right things. Part 1 of Doing the Right Things shared why organizations of all types are failing to prevent preventable incidents of all types. Part 2 of Doing the Right Things provided an overview and a partial list of the right information, which canRead More →

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  We know from research and lessons learned that in order for organizations and individuals to prevent incidents and do the right things, organizations and all appropriate people must be equipped with the right tools to get the right information to the right people in the right places at the right times with the right documentation so individuals can do the right things. Part 1 of Doing the Right Things shared why organizations of all types are failing to prevent preventable incidents of all types. Part 2 of Doing the Right Things provided an overview and a partial list of the right information, which canRead More →

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  Part 1 of Doing the Right Things shared why organizations of all types are failing to prevent preventable incidents of all types. We know from research and lessons learned  that it is critical to equip organizations and individuals to prevent incidents and do the right things which means equipping organizations and people with the right tools to get the right information to the right people in the right places at the right times so individuals can do the right things. The Right Information What is the right information?  The right information consists of many different types of information and the right information can comeRead More →

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Thomas Nelson Community College (TNCC) has launched a new online incident reporting platform called Threat Assessment, Incident Management and Prevention Services (TIPS) that allows students, faculty, staff and others on campus to confidentially report potentially harmful incidents. An award‐winning suite of web‐based tools developed by the privately held organization Awareity, the platform empowers individuals to anonymously report suspicious activities involving assault, weapons, illegal drug/alcohol use, harassment or intimidation, vandalism, threats of violence, suicide risk, sexual harassment, abuse and other incidents. “TIPS is helping TNCC become more aware of threats and incidents on campus; campus police are ever vigilant, but if we don’t know about at‐riskRead More →

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  We have studied hundreds and hundreds of failures, fines, lawsuits, tragedies and numerous other incidents that have occurred across multiple sectors and around the world.  In our studies, we have discovered some extraordinary details that nearly every failure, fine, lawsuit, tragedy, incident had in common: Most incidents and consequences were preventable Nearly every preventable failure, fine, lawsuit, tragedy, incident, etc. that was not prevented was due to gaps or disconnect in one or more of the following obligations:   Organizations and individuals did not do the right things and were not able to prevent expensive and embarrassing incidents because they: Lacked the Right Tools…Read More →