Emergency Survival at School

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Children spend most of their day in school and are just as likely to experience an emergency at school as at home. Emergency survival planning is essential in the classroom to be sure that students are safe in case of an emergency.

The first step in school emergency survival is acquiring a school emergency plan. This plan should include how to recognize an emergency situation, how to contact emergency response personnel, all possible exits, orderly exiting process, meeting location outside and head- count procedure after exiting. The emergency plan should also include emergency contacts for each student.

Once the emergency plan is completed, be sure that all students and staff understand the plan. They should understand the complete process contained in the school emergency plan.

The plan should also be reviewed often with each class so that the information is fresh and any new students receive the training immediately.

Remember that students (children) become frightened easily and are not as capable of taking care of themselves as adults in a survival situation. Teachers and other education staff should know their role in the school emergency plan as they are the leaders in an emergency.

Another key part of emergency survival planning for the classroom is a classroom emergency survival kit. These kits can be purchased online and can support up to 30 to 50 people. Such school emergency survival kits include emergency food and water, survival tools, hygiene and sanitation supplies and first aid.
Each classroom should have enough emergency kits to take care of the capacity of the room, not the current number of students in the class.

Review the school survival kits often to make sure nothing has spoiled or been broken. Replace any survival supplies that are no longer useable. Keep the survival kits in a safe location out of the reach or access of the students.

Emergency survival for the classroom is possible when the proper time, training and emergency gear. Students deserve a safe place to study and parents need to know that their children are in good hands while in the classroom.

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Emergency Survival in College

College campuses are quickly becoming a common place for emergency survival situations to occur. With so many people in one place, colleges are susceptible to terrorist attacks, domestic violence and disease.

Having been a college student myself, I have seen many things on campus that I didn't know I would see. Emergency survival preparedness is necessary for any place in which you spend a lot of time. So how do you get prepared for survival situations at college?

First, make a college emergency plan. Get to know your college campus well. Know where all the facilities are regardless of their purpose. Know where you can go for help. As you walk around campus, make note of where phones are if you don't have a cell-phone. Also try not to walk to class alone late in the day or at night. This advice goes for guys as well. I have been mugged before, and even though I am a guy, the mugger had complete control of the situation as he was the one with a gun.

Get a survival kit. College survival kits can be kept in your car, dorm or apartment. Store your survival kit items in a survival backpack. Situations may arise in which you cannot go back to your apartment or to a friend's house. You might have to leave campus and drive all the way home. For this reason I recommend you put the survival kit in your car. Keep a spare change of clothes and an extra blanket in the car as well.

Be prepared for emergency survival situations while going to college. You never know when a crisis will strike at your school. Being prepared will enable you to have thepeace of mind you will need to focus on your school work and be successful.

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Help Your College Student Plan for Emergency Survival at School

How do we prepare our children for survival situations and help them plan for emergency survival while they are living away from home and attending college?

Cell phones, credit cards, cash stash, pepper spray are all common items that are given to our children when they leave home for college. The peace of mind we get from knowing our college students have these items to use and are educated in survival preparedness can be comforting.

These items, cell phones, credit cards and cash, can provide security as long as the systems support these items are still in tact. However, natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes, tornados and hurricanes can render these services useless. The only securities you can count on in such situations are items which add to emergency survival and can be kept close at hand.

An emergency survival kit is an easy, inexpensive and thoughtful item to give your college students. Kits can be kept in easily accessible places, closets, cars or under beds. Car kits can come in handy when your child has long distances to drive between home and school, ensuring their safety if they were to become stranded. Students can rely on emergency survival kits when their cell phones, cars or credit cards cannot function usefully.

A complete emergency survival kit includes food and water, lights, communication, shelter, tools, hygiene, sanitation, first aid, entertainment and other miscellaneous items.

One fully-equipped emergency survival kit is built into a student-size backpack with space to add your own personal items and weighs on average 14 pounds. More simple kits can weigh around 5 pounds, less than what a student’s backpack can weigh.

Survival kits can be purchased online or self-assembled. The cost of building a survival preparedness kit can be inexpensive, but it will not contain the same quantity, variety or quality of items as those provided in preassembled emergency survival kits sold online for a similar price.