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CAMPUS SAFETY
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West Kentucky Community
and Technical College
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We welcome you to West Kentucky Community
and Technical College (WKCTC). The college is concerned
with our students' and employees' safety and security on
campus and want your time at the college to be safe and
enjoyable.
We are very fortunate at WKCTC in that we have had few incidences
of crimes on our campus, but crime reduction requires the
continued active support of the entire college community.
By taking certain precautions criminal acts can be eliminated.
We use a variety of approaches at WKCTC for prevention of
incidents, such as: security patrols, local law enforcement
patrols, burglar alarm systems in certain areas, lighting
sensors, and reporting of suspicious occurrences to college
faculty, staff and administrators. We urge you to work with
us to achieve the goal of maintaining a safe and secure
campus.
We encourage prompt and accurate reporting of all criminal
incidents occurring on campus to any college employee in
that area. The college employee will then report the incident
to the Campus Safety Officers/Maintenance and Operations
Supervisors at 534-3064 or 534-3360 and the local police
department will be contacted. The Campus Security Office
can be reached by dialing 554-6300. The College Evening
Coordinator can be reached at 534-3263.
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Security Guard
Officers for WKCTC
The photographs shown are the security
guard officers for West Kentucky Community and Technical
College. These officers patrol the parking lots,
the buildings and grounds of the campus. They may
be contacted by calling the Security Guard Office
at 554-6300.
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Odell Miller
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Paul Baker
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Roosevelt Nunn
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Safety Policies and Crisis
Manual
WKCTC has a Safety Policies and Crisis
Manual available for download
(PDF format) for you to review. This manual will provide
you with information regarding what do to in various emergency
situations, as well as providing names and phone numbers
of campus employees to contact in an emergency situation.
Pandemic Influenza Plan
& Avian Flu Prevention Handbook
The Kentucky Community and Technical College
System (KCTCS), having recognized the potential threat of
a world-wide influenza pandemic, and the potential impact
it could have on all KCTCS colleges, has instructed all
KCTCS locations to develop a plan to respond to the effects
such an outbreak would create. In response to the request
for the need to develop Pandemic Influenza Plans system
wide, the Office of the President for West Kentucky Community
and Technical College (WKCTC) has created the Pandemic Influenza
Planning (PIP) Committee. The PIP Committee was established
to ensure that preparedness and pandemic response planning
occurs. The PIP Committee has been identified as WKCTC’s
authorities responsible for the activation of the Pandemic
Influenza Plan. The College has developed an Avian
Flu Prevention Handbook which provides detail about
the pandemic bird flu and how to prevent it.
To obtain further information regarding pandemic influenza, click on one of the web sites below:
http://www.pandemicflu.gov/
http://www.who.org – click
avian influenza on left side of web page.
http://www.pandemicflu.gov/health
http://www.ready.gov
Bloodborne Pathogens Plan
WKCTC has an OSHA Infection Control Compliance
Program for Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens,
Needlesticks and Other Sharps Injuries available for download
(PDF format) for you to review. This manual was developed
as a means to eliminate or minimize employee and student
exposure to human blood and other potentially infectious
materials during classroom and clinical instruction.
Hepatitis B Disease
WKCTC is required by KRS 164.282 to provide
first-time, full-time students with information about hepatitis
B disease. Information about this disease can be obtained
from http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/hepatitis/b/faqb.htm,
a website maintained by the Centers for Disease Control.
Chemical Hygiene Plan
WKCTC has a Chemical Hygiene Plan that is
available for download
(PDF format) for you to review. The plan also may be reviewed
at the Science Office in Waller Hall. This plan provides
work practices and procedures to help ensure that lab employees
and students are protected from health and safety hazards
associated with the hazardous chemicals with which they
work.
A complete description of the following policy statements
are available in the Vice President of Student Affairs office:
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- Student Code of Conduct
- Notice of Drug Related Conviction
- Crime Prevention Measures
- Drug and Alcohol Education and Training
- Drug and Alcohol Policy
- AIDS Awareness Information
Emergency Exit Plan/Designated
Area (view Campus
Map)
- Allied Health Building - all students, faculty,
and other personnel should walk quickly out the nearest
exit and gather in the parking lot immediately to the
south of the building.
- Carson Hall, Waller Hall, Rosenthal Hall, Gymnasium,
Carriage House - all students, faculty, and other
personnel should walk quickly out the nearest exit and
gather on the grassy quadrangle bounded by the above buildings.
- MLRC, SC/FA, Bookstore, Nemer Building - all
students, faculty, and other personnel should walk quickly
out the nearest exit and gather on the grassy quadrangle
bounded by those buildings.
- Crounse Hall - all students, faculty, and other
personnel should walk quickly out the nearest exit and
gather in the parking lot immediately to the east of the
building.
- Crisp Building - all students, faculty, and other
personnel should walk quickly out the nearest exit and
gather on the grassy area to the north of the building.
- Purchase Training Center - all students, faculty
and other personnel should walk quickly out the nearest
exit and gather to the northside of the building.
- Anderson Technical Building - all students, faculty
and other personnel should walk quickly out the nearest
exit - persons exiting the front of the building, the
west end of the building near Graphics Technology and
the exit near the Cafeteria are to gather at the west
end parking lot; all persons exiting the east end of the
building near Electronics Technology and the T and I wing
are to gather in the east parking lot.
- Workplace Skills Center (Ky. Oaks Mall) - all
students, faculty and other personnel should walk quickly
to the nearest exit and gather in the parking lot away
from the building.
- Weaks Center (Murray) - all students, facutly
and other personnel should walk quickly to the nearest
exit and gather in the parking lot away from the building.
- Housing Authority of Paducah (The Mary Ellen Thompson
Health Education Center) - all students, faculty,
and other personnel should walk quickly to the nearest
exit and gather in the parking lot away from the building.
Make sure you and your
students proceed away and clear of your building. Remain
at your designated area until the designated person for
your building gives the clear signal to re-enter the building.
Crime Awareness and Campus
Security Act of 1990
Incidences of campus crimes must be reported
in compliance with the Crime Awareness and Campus Security
Act of 1990. WKCTC became a consolidated comprehensive college
in December 2003. The following Federal web site lists the
crime statistics for WKCTC: http://ope.ed.gov/security.
The following are current year incidences for WKCTC:
April
2003 - Present*
Clery
Act and Michael Minger Act 2006 Calendar Year Report
Minger
Act Report - 2006
Reported
Crimes - Prior Reporting Periods
Sex Offender Notification
In accordance with the "Campus Sex Crimes
Prevention Act" of 2000, which amends the Jacob Wetterling
Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration
Act, the Jeanne Clery Act and the Family Educational Rights
and Privacy Act of 1974, the Kentucky State Police are providing
a link to the Kentucky State Police Sex Offender Registry.
This act requires institutions of higher education to issue
a statement advising the campus community where law enforcement
information provided by a State concerning registered sex
offenders may be obtained. It also requires sex offenders
already required to register in a State to provide notice
of each institution of higher education in that State at
which the person is employed, carries a vocation, or is
a student. In the Commonwealth of Kentucky convicted sex
offenders who are convicted of statutorily covered crimes
must register with the Kentucky State Police Sex Offender
Registry. The Kentucky State Police are responsible for
maintaining this registry. Please go to the following link
to access the Kentucky State Police website: http://www.kentuckystatepolice.org/sor.htm
In addition, names supplied to the college by the Kentucky
State Police may be obtained by contacting Barry Meadows,
at the Kentucky
State Police. According to the Kentucky State Police,
this website is for public safety and awareness. Pursuant
to KRS 525.070 and 525.080, use of information from
this website to harass a sex offender is a criminal
offense punishable by up to 90 days in the county jail. More
severe penalties apply for more severe crimes committed
against a sex offender.
West Kentucky Community and Technical College
does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex,
marital status, beliefs, age, national origin, sexual orientation,
physical or mental disability in admission to, access to,
treatment in, or employment in its programs and activities.
Inquiries regarding nondiscrimination policies should be
directed to:
Coordinator for Affirmative
Action, Title IX, Section 504
West Kentucky Community and Technical College
P.O. Box 7380
Paducah, Kentucky 42002
Or call 270-534-3458
ADA-compliant
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