Our Advisory Board members are pioneers in the field of school assessments, conducting numerous site audits from large urban school districts with several hundred schools to rural areas with only a handful of schools. The purpose of an assessment is to provide school administrators with a better understanding of their preparedness to deal with a serious security incident. The assessment also proves an insight as to how safe students and staff feel in their school.

The tragedies of the past several years has rekindled an interest by schools to have an outside agency come in and assess their needs and to make responsible recommendations. There are several "self assessment" tools available on the market. However, LearnSafe® is of the belief that it is difficult to conduct a self-assessment and obtain an accurate picture of your assets, threats, vulnerabilities, potential losses and solutions for safeguarding your assets.

The security assessment provides an independent review of security policies, procedures, personnel, security hardware, electronic systems, emergency/crisis readiness, training, emergency communications systems, and of the many program facets required to keep students and staff safe. The key to effective security is an approach which balances all the elements.

The security assessment will also ensure that the district is in compliance with federal and any state mandates related to school security.

During an assessment, both short and long-term security goals will be identified to ensure that the existing security program and the recommendations made support district growth and other factors that may impact the program both now, and in the future.

Having a solid safe school plan with clearly defined policies and procedures will help school and district personnel mitigate the risk of in-crisis procedural breakdowns and may also assist in defense against any potential litigation that may arise from an incident on a school site.