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The College is concerned about the safety of its students and employees and has instituted a College Safety Policy and an Injury and Illness Prevention Program. Students play an important role in ensuring that their classroom facilities are safe. Students should:

• Review fire, medical and earthquake emergency procedures posted in each classroom and be prepared to respond accordingly
• Review emergency egress routes and know the location of fire extinguishers
• Watch for any hazardous conditions and report them immediately to the faculty

Campuses

In general, the College's campuses are situated in highly populated urban areas. As such, they are subject to the same security problems as other businesses in the area. To help prevent crime, students should:

• Lock their cars
• Never leave valuable items in their parked cars
• Return to their cars in the company of other students when they leave the classroom at night.
• Take items of value with them when they leave a classroom, unless they are certain that the classroom will be locked or monitored while they are away
• Report anything that appears to be out of the ordinary (e.g., a stranger lingering in the area) immediately to the faculty or staff

Students should never single-handedly try to stop a criminal in the act. Students should call for help or report the act by calling "911." When the emergency operator answers, students should give the operator their direct dial number, name and specific location, including building and room number.

If students are involved in or aware of any event that requires the attention of College administration, they should complete an "Incident Report," available at each campus, and follow the instructions.

Pursuant to the Campus Security Act of 1990, the College publishes the Annual Report on Campus Security that discloses information about campus safety policies, procedures and crime statistics. This report is available upon request to all current students and prospective students at each campus.

Code of Safety

Students are required to take a safety test covering general safety regulations and procedures.

• Students must comply with all safety procedures and standards prescribed by their instructors in each phase of the academic program
• Any unsafe equipment or facility must be reported immediately to an instructor or the Safety Officer.
• Any gear requiring repair or maintenance must be removed from service, red tagged, and submitted, through the instructor, to the maintenance department with a written explanation of the problem.
• Shoes must be worn at all times on campus.  No thongs, sandals, or open-toed footwear are allowed.  Steel-toed work boots must be worn at all times on the Welding Pier and Rigging Yard.  Hard sole booties, shoes, or boots are required during all underwater training.
• Gloves must be worn on all work projects in the Rigging Yard, topside on the platforms, and on all underwater projects in the tanks or open water.
• All students are required to wear safety hats in designated areas.
• Smoking is prohibited in all classrooms, computer labs, buildings, dive stations, student work areas, and other areas as posted.
• Eating and drinking are prohibited in classrooms and on the dive stations.
• Any accident, incident, or injury, however minor, must be reported immediately to an instructor, the Safety Officer, or an administrator.  If health complications arise after leaving school for the day, these must also be reported.  Emergency phone numbers are printed on the back cover of this catalog.
• A student enrolled in a diving class who has a cold or head/chest congestion, ear or eye infection, or who has recently taken any medication, must notify the instructor before the class day begins.
• No one with an open sore or cut is allowed to dive in open water without approval of the instructor.
• No hair styles, mustaches, or beards, which might interfere with the safe operation of surface supplied diving equipment, face mask, oral-nasal mask, oxygen resuscitator, or which might otherwise constitute an industrial safety hazard as defined by the Safety Officers, an instructor, or ormal industrial safety practices are allowed.  Hairstyles that might constitute a safety hazard will be tightly confined in a rubber bathing cap or a water polo cap at all times during chamber operations, dive stations, or when working around machinery.  Facial hair will be kept short and neatly trimmed.  Specialty programs may require more stringent policies.
• No jewelry of any kind will be worn during chamber operations, on dive stations, or while working around machinery.
• The best medical advice available is to refrain from flying for 24 hours after pressurization (diving and /or chamber operations) and for 48 hours if the dive required decompression.
• Students are not allowed to bring pets of any type on campus.
• The College is not responsible for any injury or accident that occurs when in direct violation of College policies and standards.