Secure Schools Exist at the Effective Intersection of Physical Security Practices and School Culture

Contributed by the School Safety and Security Community

With the understanding that most school security failures are human failures and not systems or equipment failures addressing the human element becomes a critical factor in enhancing school security. The study of Industrial Safety offers a effective model for the behavior modification and enculturation of sustainable changes to enhance a school’s security profile. The presentation will focus on the specific processes that can provide effective methods for affecting sustainable change at the staff, student and school community levels.

The panel will include an ASIS certified (PSP) practitioner, a long time educator with strong school security background, and a senior Law Enforcement official with a school resource officer perspective. 

Learning Objectives

• At the end of the session, participants will understand the close connection between effective application of security measures and the required enculturation by a school community.
• At the end of the session, participants will be able identify and utilize behavioral modification technics from industrial safety to achieve security improvement.
• At the end of the session, participants will be able to help the schools they serve to provide a security friendly school culture while providing an education friendly school environment.