Emergencies Can Happen At Any Time.docx

Emergency preparedness in school Emergencies can happen at any time, and when they happen at school, everyone should be prepared to handle them safely and effectively. Administrators, teachers, staff and students can work together to promote and maintain school-wide safety and minimize the effects of emergencies. This guide covers different ways everyone in the school community can prepare for emergency situations to stay safe. Some emergency situations can be predicted, giving school enough warning to take safety precautions, but others can happen unexpectedly or go through rapid changes that sudden put a school in danger. The first step school should take in preparing for emergency situations is to understand the different between the emergency and non-emergency situations. The emergency situations that have higher possibility to occur in school are heart attack, broken bones, suicide, etc. While non-emergency situations such as sore throat, flu, headache, etc also have the same possibility to happen but absolutely these situations need a different treatment with emergency situations. The next step is getting the school members prepared. Students, teachers, administrators can prepare themselves for emergencies at school in a number of ways such as conducting regular seminar or workshop on how to deal with emergency situations, and making some posters that contain some steps to respond the emergency situations appropriately. The last step is by preparing an emergency kit such as litter, first-aid kit, and list of hospital’s phone number. Schools are generally prepared to help students but it’s still a good idea to bring students to the hospital in the emergency situations. In conclusion, schools should prepare to deal with emergency situations by knowing the type of emergencies, planning the quick respond and collaborating with the hospital. For that reason, school needs to give their attention on emergency situations that may appear in anytime. This essay is copied from www.accreditedschoolsonline.org