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Safe School Plan ContinuedResponse to Safety Needs AssessmentThe survey data presented in the ERCM Survey, much of which is represented in the table above,has specific implications for enhancing our School’s safety and the safety perceptions held bystaff, parents and students. Our School has taken the following actions.In addition to conducting fire and earthquake drills, our School will conduct the following drills:Lock Down, Evacuation.Our School has ensured first aid supplies are easily available to all classrooms.Our School has the goal of training at least 2/3 of our total staff in First Aid/CPR.Our School will increase the opportunities given to students to participate in safety planning bypermitting students to attend meetings on school safety, asking students to report ideas to helpthem be and feel safer and develop activities to obtain perceptions and ideas from students as itrelates to school safety.Our School will train staff to be prepared for emergency situations through distribution of ourSafety Plan and the ideas contained herein, increasing opportunities to individually andcollectively review our safety plans.Designate individuals and teams to help prevent, mitigate, respond and recover from a crisis oremergency.Provide a completed copy of the “Emergency Information” section of this plan to each schoolemployee.Comply with our District’s media relations policy. Unless the District assigns a person, theprincipal or designee will assign our School’s primary media contact to whom all media inquirieswill be routed and to whom communication will occur during a disturbance or crisis situation.Prepare for and use an Incident Command System, as described in this plan, to respond to a crisisor emergency.Establish a Safety Procedure to respond to the emergency situations of most concern to staff,parents and students to include: Drive by Shooting, Lock Down, Evacuation, Unarmed Intruderon Campus.Increase our effectiveness in communicating safety principles and procedures to parents byincreasing parent contact, communication to parents on school and classroom rules and makingparents aware of Bakersfield City School District’s School Discipline Rules and Procedures.Standardize methods for visitor registration, using a visitor identification method, confrontingunarmed visitors without identification, and maintaining a fenced or monitored perimeter aroundthe school while in session.43