Safety Paredness Essay

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Safety Preparedness By: Kia Mance Mance 1 Thesis:Safety Preparedness is a problem because of unprepared students in college not knowing what to do if a natural disaster occurs which can be solved by making the students aware of the dangers and prepare them to know what to do when a disaster happen. Statement of the problem: A school not preparing their students for a natural disaster is leaving the students helpless when something majors happens. Student’s lives could be in danger because they do not know how to protect their safety. My school Central Penn College for an example has not really helped me learn how to keep myself safe from anything except fires really. Coming from a private high school, we had drills at least once a month and they ranged anywhere from fire drills which is the most common one, to hurricane and tornado drills, to even code red drills where the school is locked up and shutdown. Nevertheless, how many schools actually prepared students this well before coming into college? This is unfortunate because if we had a hurricane right now I personally would not know where to go or what to do, even with the little training I had this is a new environment for me. My life is now in danger. One thing my school does do is send out alerts though which is helpful because you can keep up to date with what is happening with the school, but it isn’t really helpful if I’m aware of the situation and do not know how to handle it. My suggestion is for schools to do test drills to make sure the students know how to handle natural disaster situation. Once a month they should do test fire drill. When hurricane season starts up, they should prepare the students by doing hurricane drills. Students should also be knowledgeable and know what to do when there are flood warnings, gun shootings, tornados, earthquakes, and even health disasters. Most colleges

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