School Emergency & Crisis Response Plan Template
ISBE/OSFM All Hazard Preparedness Guide for Illinois Schools
Public Act 094-0600 (105 ILCS 128) School Safety Drill Act, was signed into law August 16, 2005. Its purpose is to have public and private schools review their school safety plans with first responders and to conduct specific school safety drills. Below are links to the PA 094-0600 School Safety Drill Act, Joint Rules adopted by the Office of the State Fire Marshal and the Illinois State Board of Education, suggested forms for documenting minimum compliance with the Act and Rules, a School Emergency and Crisis Response Plan Template, and additional multi-hazard training documents.
- PA 094-0600 School Safety Drill Act.
I. Establishes the minimum requirements and standards for
schools to follow when conducting school safety drills
and reviewing school emergency and crisis response plans
and to encourage schools and first responders to work together
for the safety of children. Communities and schools may
exceed these requirements and standards.
- Title
29 Part 1500 Joint Rules of the Office of the State
Fire Marshal and the Illinois State Board of Education:
School Emergency and Crisis Response Plans. Establishes
the requirements for the annual review and updating of
the protocols and procedures in each school’s emergency
and crisis response plan that is required by Section
25 of the School Safety Drill Act [105 ILCS 128/25],
including the review of each school’s compliance
with the school safety drill requirements established
in Section 15 of the Act [105 ILCS 128/15].
- Minimum Compliance. Forms
and documents for assuring minimum compliance with the
Act and Joint Rules.
- Annual Review Report. Suggested
form to document compliance with the requirement of the
school board or designee to submit a one-page report
upon the conclusion of each school’s annual review
to each party that participates in the review and to
the appropriate regional superintendent of schools. Private
schools are required to submit the same to the Office
of the State Fire Marshal. [105 ILCS 128/25 and 105 ILCS
128/30].
- Minimum
Component Checklist for Annual Review. Suggested checklist
to use prior to and during the School Emergency and Crisis
Response Plan Review to guide and document the participants’ review
of the minimum components that are required to be reviewed
by the Joint Rules.
- Drill Scheduling
Requirements. A one-page review
of dates and first responder participation details.
- School Drill
Documentation. Suggested form for documenting
the completion of minimum drills.
- Annual Review Report. Suggested
form to document compliance with the requirement of the
school board or designee to submit a one-page report
upon the conclusion of each school’s annual review
to each party that participates in the review and to
the appropriate regional superintendent of schools. Private
schools are required to submit the same to the Office
of the State Fire Marshal. [105 ILCS 128/25 and 105 ILCS
128/30].
- School Emergency
and Crisis Response Plan Template. A template for assisting schools in developing or revising
School Emergency and Crisis Response Plans.
- Introduction – page
7. Contains the Distribution List, Purpose and Definitions
for terms within
the Plan.
- Situation and Assumption – page 10. Provides
a description of the situations that may be faced by
the school and assumptions regarding the school’s
ability to mitigate emergencies generally.
- Concept of
Operations – page 15. Describes
the objectives of incident management and the incident
command system and general principals of emergency
management.
- Organization
and Assignment of Responsibilities – page
23. Describes the roles and responsibilities of the various
elements and positions within the school’s administration
and incident management system.
- Direction and
Control – page
29. Describes the roles and responsibilities and chain
of command
to be used during an emergency.
- Readiness Levels – page
30. Describes the circumstances that dictate the
levels of readiness and the appropriate
awareness that is expected of the school staff
and students.
- Administration and
Support – page 32. Provides
guidance for completing the various records and
report that may result from mitigation of an emergency.
- Plan
Development and Maintenance – page 34. Provides
guidance for the distribution and review of the
plan document including a listing of updates
to
the
plan.
- References – page 35. Provides
the sources for the information contained in the plan
and a resource for further information.
- Appendices – page
36. Listing of the particular details regarding the
school, staff, students,
facilities, contracts, resource and other data that will
be needed
in an emergency.
- Planned Responses/Teacher
Action Guides – SECURE
MATERIALS – page 55. Specific step
by step guidance for each individual situation
in a format that is intended
to be removed, taken with the staff member
and used to guide the staff to minimize confusion
and insure
completion
of necessary actions particular to the specific incident.
- Introduction – page
7. Contains the Distribution List, Purpose and Definitions
for terms within
the Plan.
- Additional Multi-Hazard Training documents. Six additional documents from the "Multi-Hazard Emergency Planning for Illinois Schools" Training Program.
- Training Videos. Recommendations and lessons learned.
- Tornado Preparedness Video. 15 minute video showing the need for schools to reconsider their tornado shelter areas in hallways that have exits to the outside. Includes a security surveillance camera video from Joplin school hit by a tornado on May 22, 2011.
If you have any questions, public schools may contact Susan Weitekamp, Illinois State Board of Education at sweiteka@isbe.net. Private schools may contact John Fennell, Office of the State Fire Marshal, at John.Fennell@illinois.gov.
