As campus security industry professionals have seen, particularly in the last few months, there isn’t just one thing schools can do to keep their students and faculty safe. School safety is a multi-layered approach that involves participation from all members of a school’s community.

Last month, Campus Safety hosted a webinar led by Gary Sigrist, a retired school district safety director and current CEO and president of Safeguard Risk Solutions, to discuss the different layers of security needed in schools to protect students and staff from violence.

The webinar focused on five particular layers of campus security: emergency management, staff training, exercises, hardware/software and positive school culture.

Throughout the webinar, our audience asked many strong, important questions. Gary took the time to answer some of the ones we weren’t able to get to during the live presentation. Here are some of his responses.

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