Schools have adopted a wide variety of procedures for their safety drills, some of them potentially traumatizing without being effective. David P. Perrodin urges school leaders to look to the world of human research for a model of how to ensure their safety drills are helpful and not harmful. An institutional review board made up of educators, emergency managers, parents, students, and other stakeholders could review any proposed safety drill procedures to ensure they are likely to achieve their purpose without inflicting unnecessary trauma.
