Safe Schools Planning Guide for All Hazards

Comprehensive school safety guide for education and security professionals

Jane's Safe Schools Planning Guide for All Hazards is a textbook-sized reference for school planners tasked with designing, implementing and maintaining a safe school plan. Every school should have an effective, locality-specific emergency plan in place; this crucial guide will assist in developing such a plan. Written by four experts with decades of experience in the school safety field, it provides a comprehensive step-by-step approach that addresses all your school safety needs - from mitigation/prevention and preparedness planning, to response and recovery procedures. To aid you in implementing your plan, easy to follow checklists, advice and samples from safe school planning documents currently being employed are also included.

Key contents include:

Safe school standards, roles and responsibilities
Preparedness, mitigation/prevention, response and recovery strategy development
Characteristics of violent youth
Vulnerability and threat assessments for schools
Training, education, evaluation and exercises
Developing contact lists
Disaster planning
Preparing for and managing stress

In these uncertain times, an emergency or disaster can strike any community at any time, causing severe injury, loss of life and, in many cases, a major disruption to government services. It is therefore the responsibility of schools to care for and protect what is arguably our most valuable resource: children. This guide will assist all those within the school and community systems to develop a well thought out effective plan for safe schools.

Editorial Team: Michael Dorn, Sonayia Shepherd, Gregory Thomas and Marleen Wong