Incident Management Procedures
What are Incident Management Procedures?
Receipt of the Incident Management Procedures is the third stage of the delivery process of an integrated modular approach to incident prevention and intervention.
They effectively form part of the incident preparedness or ‘Resilience’ element of the Risk Reduction Strategy.
Incident Management Procedures offer schools a step by step structured approach to dealing with incidents effectively and safely minimising the disruption to the school community.
When an incident occurs it is vital that pre-defined plans and procedures are in place to provide members of the school with the correct form of actions that need to be taken to safeguard its community.
The Incident Management Procedures inform:
- What action needs to be taken?
- How that action should be carried out?
- Where it should be carried out?
- Who it should be carried out by?
- Who else should be involved?
- Who needs to be informed that the action has been completed?
- What information should be recorded?
- Who should be informed of the recorded information?
Summary of Benefits
The main benefits of the Threat and Vulnerability Assessment and Incident Management Procedures are as follows:
- Allows schools access to specialist knowledge and experience
- Identify schools key assets
- Third party analysis of existing threats
- Third party analysis of the establishments’ current threat and vulnerability profile
- Comparison of above to identify gaps in schools resilience to the identified threats
- Assist with the development of strategic risk reduction policy and procedures to mitigate risk, including provision of step by step guides for potential incidents
- Identify staff security, incident response and challenging behaviour training requirements
- Provide advice on infrastructure design for optimal security in accordance with budgetary constraints
- Proof that a comprehensive threat and vulnerability audit has been carried out
- Reports can be a used as support to bid for more resources or funding
- Allows school personal to perform their primary goal of teaching the pupils
