Develop Personel Roles and Policies:

Steps

Step 1: Construct a committee of stakeholders to create and implement the safety plan. Include school administrators, teachers, counselors, law enforcement personnel, health officials, hazardous waste personnel, fire prevention personnel, parents and students.
Create a core committee to begin to develop a plan of action. Suggestions for the composition of this committee include:

a. School Administrators
b. Teacher/SIT representatives
c. Counselors
d. PTA representatives
e. School staff representatives, i.e. secretaries, custodial personnel, food service workers, transportation staff
f. School Nurse
g. Law enforcement official or SRO
h. Fire prevention personnel
i. Hazardous waste personnel
j. DNR personnel
k. Local Heath officer

Step 2: Develop a chain of command for leadership during a crisis situation. See web site.

Step 3: When developing a plan to evacuate the building or to move students to another setting within the school building remember to prepare for the inclusion of physically challenged individuals. Wheel chair bound individuals, those with visual and hearing impairments and those who cannot read must have a “buddy” to assist them See Phyllis for web sites.

Step 4: Develop a plan to in-service school-based faculty and staff on the implementation of the safety plan.

When planning for an in-service to communicate the safety plan to the faculty and staff set a serious tone for the program. The tone should inspire confidence, not fear, in the suitability of the plan.

Attendance at the in-service must be mandatory and a plan for annual updating and the inclusion of new personnel must be developed.

Step 5: Develop a method to communicate the plan to students, parents and surrounding community.

In determining how to most effectively communicate the safety plan to students, keep in mind that small group instruction may be the best. The gravity of this plan mandates that instruction take place in optimum learning environments.

PTA meetings, town meetings or community center meetings are excellent vehicles to communicate with parents. Local newspapers, church and community bulletins, outside signs and local radio stations are also ways of communicating the existence of a plan.