Emergency/Disaster Drills

 A school staff member at each site is responsible for Emergency Preparedness and organizing fire and lockdown drills and at least one earthquake drill each school year.

 Many PTA Emergency Preparedness Chairs are CERT trainees who can be observers, or the local fire department can provide either their staff or CERT volunteers to observe and give feedback.

 Some schools drill portions of their emergency response, like Search and Rescue, before or after the school day in the fall.

 Situation cards can be given to staff to add variables to drills.

 Inservice days, before, or after school times can be used to drill student release with parent and student volunteers.

 With no notice to staff, a teacher and 2 students can be pulled to drill attendance functionality during fire drills.