What is a school safety 'prevention plan'?

What is a school safety 'prevention plan'?

A prevention and mitigation plan is the first of four phases that need to be in place for a proper written plan. It is the written plan that outlines the strategies, the procedures, the policies, the practices of the school or district, to prevent and to keep things from happening to people and to the place. To prevent any type of crisis that we can prevent, and the mitigation strategies. Mitigation, in simple terms, means to minimize the negative impacts of those events that we cannot prevent, such as a tornado striking a building, or those that occur in spite of our best efforts. When that child went into a Pennsylvania elementary school with five rifles and shotguns and two hand guns, the prevention efforts didn't work, but the mitigation efforts kept that child from killing anyone when they implemented a lockdown procedure. They minimized the negative impact of that terrible event. It was still a bad event, but it was a lot less of a negative event than it would have been had they not had mitigation efforts in place. So it's a written outline, if you will, of those things we do to prevent and mitigate crisis situations in a school.