About Safety Salute
Church Safety
Church Safety focuses on ways to prevent incidents and accidents by maintaining the overall physical safety of the property. Safety in your place of worship is about the health and welfare of everyone on your worship property. We can assist you with safety planning.
Safety concerns you may need to address include:
- Health emergencies: Ensuring staff and volunteers are trained in basic emergency response. Does your church have a first aid kit?
- Child Safety: Running background checks, using secure check-in/out systems, and creating safe, clean children’s areas.
- Fire Safety & Exit pathways: Keeping all exits clearly marked, well-lit, and unobstructed according to fire codes. Testing smoke detectors, ensuring fire extinguishers are operable, and performing other monthly facility checks that are necessary to identify risks and hazards.
- OSHA Compliance: Churches are not exempt—this includes maintaining safety data sheets, ensuring PPE use, and creating safe working conditions for your paid staff and volunteers.
Church Security
Church Security focuses on protecting your church from intentional harm. This could include threats like property destruction from natural disasters or vandalism, hate crimes, cyber threats and other acts of violence. A trained safety and security team whether volunteers or paid can help deter threats and give your congregation peace of mind.
At Safety Salute, we can help you plan protocols and respond effectively to incidents.
- Create a written safety and security manual.
- Develop emergency plans. Create response plans for threats like active shooters, vandalism, or natural disasters, and hold regular drills.
- Train safety/security team.
Protection must be intentional
To effectively protect your church, a comprehensive safety and security plan is a must. This plan should include a risk assessment, creating a dedicated security team, emergency response protocols, and clear communication strategies.
Safety Salute can assist with both your security and safety needs. Our decades of military experience and safety expertise will bring real value to your place of worship. Together, we can help you create or expand the safety and security of your place of worship.
2 Corinthians 3:17
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