Security is the degree of protection against danger, loss, and criminals.
Security has to be compared and contrasted with other related concepts: Safety, continuity, reliability. The key difference between security and reliability is that security must take into account the actions of people attempting to cause destruction.
Security as a form of protection are structures and processes that provide or improve security as a condition. The Institute for Security and Open Methodologies (ISECOM) in the OSSTMM 3 defines security as “a form of protection where a separation is created between the assets and the threat. This includes but is not limited to the elimination of either the asset or the threat. In order to be secure, either the asset is physically removed from the threat or the threat is physically removed from the asset.
School safety services include:
School emergency planning evaluations and consultation service to help school leaders evaluate school emergency and crisis plans, district and building school crisis teams, school safety drills and exercises, school training on emergency and crisis plans, school crisis communications, and related school emergency planning components.
Facilitated school emergency/crisis tabletop exercises for building and district crisis teams, and their community agency partners, in a half or full-day professional development type setting to help schools learn whether their written school emergency / crisis plans might work in a real emergency.
School security assessments provide proactive, practical, and cost-effective recommendations for school safety and crisis preparedness planning, heightened school security for terrorist threats, school gang prevention and intervention, school security and school police staffing, school security and crisis procedures, physical security, special event management, school crime prevention and school crisis training, school-community collaboration, transportation security, linking security with prevention and intervention programs, and more.
Proactive school security and emergency preparedness training helps schools with improving school staff emergency management and emergency response capacity, lockdown and evacuation procedures, crisis media and communications issues, best practices in security and school crime prevention, understanding national trends in school deaths and violence, managing and assessing student threats, school safety assessment processes, heightened security during national terror alerts, and related school safety trends and hot topics.
Training on managing media and school community communications on school safety and crisis issues helps school leaders learn how to effectively communicate school safety and crisis issues with parents, media, and their school community.
School gang training helps school officials and community partners develop sound gang prevention, intervention, and enforcement strategies.
School bus security and emergency training helps school transportation managers and school bus drivers prevent and manage violence and emergencies on school buses.
School terrorism preparedness training helps school officials identify practical, cost-effective, and common sense best practices for “heightened security” and school emergency preparedness during times of national terrorism and security alerts.
Post-crisis school safety consulting support services help school board members, superintendents, and principals address parent and school-community concerns about school security and emergency preparedness issues after a crisis