We enable schools to quickly lock-down during an “active shooter” emergency
K-12 Classroom Door Locks
School administrators and first responders everywhere and faced with the daunting challenge of how best to protect children while they are at school and in the classroom. In an “active shooter” or a hostile event emergency, the real first responders are the teachers and administrators themselves. Let us then empower them to be able to take measures to quickly secure-in-place and not just be sitting ducks in a time of crisis.
Law enforcement and other first responders can do a more effective job if they don’t have to spend hours sweeping an entire building searching every room and closet looking for the bad guy when they arrive on an “active shooter” scene.
A more common-sense approach is to enable students, teachers and administrators to quickly secure-in-place while relying on smart detection devices to automatically send information to law enforcement via text, email and video of an intruder’s location within a building. This ensures a quicker and safer entry into the facilities once they arrive and possibly reduce the loss of lives.
TufDoor.com has sensible and affordable solutions to help reduce the senseless loss of lives in our schools and workplaces. The problem for many however, is that muddling through a myriad of ineffective security products being sold by thousands of companies have proven to be a daunting task for school security directors everywhere.
TufDoor.com uses 100% compliant school lock-down hardware that meets Department of Homeland Security’s #1 recommendation to quickly lock-down classrooms.
In addition, we can design a solution that will quickly lock-down perimeter doors in colleges and universities as well as lecture halls and conference rooms in an emergency. All this can be achieved without violating fire codes and free-egress laws of each jurisdiction.
School administrators who take it upon themselves to have slide bolts and other blocking devices installed on the inside of classrooms in efforts to protect children in an “active shooter” or a hostile event emergency, are unwittingly placing them in even greater danger.
If a bad guy happens to get inside one of these classrooms equipped with a slide bolt on the inside of the door, then all of a sudden he has hostages. There is no easy way for law enforcement to get to him.
Blocking devices are violations of the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) of 1990 as well as the National Fire Prevention Association (NFPA) safety standards everywhere.
The idea behind the use of 100% compliant school lock-down hardware is to be able to quickly lock-down classrooms so that students and teachers alike can secure-in-place while still enabling first responders quick and easy access with the school’s master key once a threat has been mitigated.
The rule to remember is… LOCK! DON’T BLOCK!
