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Abstract
School emergency planning directs staff and student preparation and response.
Knowing how to respond during a crisis helps everyone remain calm, understand their role,
and act as safely and efficiently as possible. Emergency planning must include all risks,
crises, and emergencies schools may encounter. Developing and maintaining a safe school
environment is the responsibility of the entire school community, including families drills
and exercises that should be preceded by training seminars or workshops, where
articipants are trained on their emergency responsibilities. Following training in more
ormal settings, exercises can extend the training to provide opportunities to use existing
kills and to learn new ones. Exercising the emergency management plan using simulations
rovides the opportunity for testing skills and knowledge to identify strengths and
-eaknesses; learning new skills; practicing decision-making, techniques, and
ommunications; determining gaps in planning and procedures for management attention;
d critically examining methods and procedures to stimulate revisions and modifications
:0 the emergency management plan.
This study aimed to identify awareness of the school crisis and disaster committee
embers about school disaster and crisis management plan and its measures, and to assess
• .... e disaster management measures adopted by schools in Alexandria.
A descriptive design was carried out in all (7) Educational Zones affiliated to
Alexandria Governorate namely: El Montazah, East, Middle, West, El Gomrok , El
Amria, and Borg El Arab. Three schools were selected randomly from each zone: one
primary school, one preparatory school and one secondary school. This gave a total
cumber of 21 governmental schools affiliated to the Ministry of education in Alexandria
Governorate that were included in the study. The subjects of this study included all
embers of the school disaster and crisis committee (10 members from each school),
giving a total number of 21 0 members.