Shelter in Place – Lockdown With school shootings becoming a disturbingly commonplace occurrence across the country and the potential for other dangerous events to occur at any time, identifying effective strategies to protect students and faculty has assumed new importance and relevance today (Williams, 2016). The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of the shelter-in-place plan developed by a security consulting firm, including three specific areas that were viewed as especially valuable as well as three areas of the plan that require improvement. In addition, an assessment concerning the extent to which the shelter-in-place plan provides a concise description of the steps that should be followed in the event of emergency situations is followed by a discussion concerning what types of circumstances would require the activation of the shelter-in-place plan in a school or workplace setting. Finally, a discussion concerning the types of problems that might arise and how they should be addressed is followed by a summary of the research and important findings concerning shelter-in-place planning is the conclusion.

Review and Analysis

Three areas liked about the plan

1. The use of bullet points and numbered lists helped to quickly communicate the main issues and what steps should be taken...

The plan emphasized the need for and utility of coordinating with local police authorities and the American Red Cross;
3. The plan was sufficiently broad in scope to allow for customizing to a particular school or organization setting.

Three areas of improvement

1. Although the plan emphasizes the need to review shelter-in-place procedures with all stakeholders, it is relatively vague concerning who the affected “patrons” may be in a school setting;

2. The plan recommends identifying secondary means for communications in the event primary methods are unavailable or disabled, but does not describe what types of resources should be considered for this purpose;

3. The plan lacks specificity concerning the chain of command that should be followed in activating a shelter-in-place plan as recommended by Sorensen and Shumbert (2002).

Do the instructions relate needed material in a short amount of time with as few as words as possible?

To their credit, the Safe-Wise consultancy firm provides a useful and easy-to-follow set of guidelines that can be used in the event of lockdowns or shelter-in-place circumstances. In addition, as noted above, the bulleted items and numbered lists arranged by type of event…