School Safety Strategies

Schools are not traditional emergency response organizations, but when a school-based emergency occurs, school personnel must respond immediately. Therefore, schools, along with their partners, must develop comprehensive EOPs, just in case. More importantly, schools must create prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery practices as part of the school community’s customary habits.

In order to assist schools and their community partners in their planning efforts, several Federal agencies jointly produced the Guide for Developing High- Quality School Emergency Operations Plans (School Guide)