Schools should maintain a record of all their emergency drills. Both the Fire Department and the Office of Environmental Health and Safety audit and issue citations to schools for failure to comply with the mandated drill schedule. Schools can follow the reference guide, "Emergency Drills and Procedures," and use the Emergency Drill Data Worksheet to record their drill activity. The worksheet can then be used to enter data on the LAUSD Post-Emergency Drill Survey website. The Emergency Drill Frequency Chart includes the types of required drill and how often they must be conducted at each grade level to meet requirements.

Use the  Emergency Drill Triage Kit to make your disaster drills a bit more challenging. The kit includes 40 numbered tags have different injuries printed on them and otyher materials, so that your Search and Rescue and Triage teams can practice their skills.

Hand out the tags to selected students before the drill, and then during the drill check to see if the "victims" are found, identified, and taken to the appropriate location. By exercising the system, teachers will learn and practice the skills that will help them in a real disaster. The victim tags fit into a standard-size plastic name badge.  

Interested in disaster communications? Wondering how you might make your school more disaster-resilient? Looking for a technology project for students and staff? Are you a HAM radio operator? Take the LAUSD Amateur Radio Survey today!