There are several ways schools have made school security assessments affordable.  First, and most commonly used, is for the school to levy a “school security fee.”  We recommend this strategy because for less than the cost of the typical “supply fee”, the annual security fee can pay for the site security assessment every three years and the funds collected during the off-years can be used to implement or improve existing security processes.

A second option for paying for our services is to have a local company sponsor the assessment.  If a school uses a sponsor to pay for the service, we will include the sponsor’s name and/or logo on the cover of the up to ten, professionally-bound reports.  

Perhaps the most important thing to keep in mind is that the assessment should pay for itself many times over.  How many additional students do you need in order to pay for the assessment?  Being able to say that you are a SAFE-certified school (and perhaps the only local one) will be a strong draw for parents when deciding which school their
child should attend.  

SAFE School does not want finances to keep any school from being able to be a SAFE School.  We are committed to working with each school to make comfortable financial arrangements to ensure that our vision and mission of seeing every school in America assessed every three years come to fruition. 

A site safety and security assessment report is recommended by the federal government and should be obtained from an independent, professional organization.  The differences between law enforcement training and educators are unique and conducting an exceptional, thorough, efficient assessment requires specialized training acquired
through multiple school security courses, school safety experience, and best practices established by nationally-recognized corporations.

All schools that receive a SAFE School site safety and security assessment will receive up to ten, professionally-bound reports containing the assessment.  The average assessment is 25-30 pages for a school between 100-300 students.  Assessments of schools with
300 students or more receive assessments that range between 30-50 pages (due to size/number of buildings).  In addition to the ten reports, each school will receive SAFE School Certificates of School Security.  A beautiful, customized plaque will also be awarded to the school certifying it as a member of SAFE.  

Your school will receive much more than professionally-bound reports, certificates, and plaques.  Your staff, students, parents, and community as a whole will receive peace of mind and find comfort in the fact that their local school is concerned about the safety and security of the lives with which they are entrusted.  In addition, your school becomes the
school of choice.  You receive marketing rights to SAFE School’s logo for up to three years from the assessment date.  You are able to put this on marketing materials that go out from your school. 

The most important reason you should order a SAFE site security assessment right now is because it emphasizes your ongoing commitment to protecting your staff and student body.  Schools cannot afford to wait until an incident occurs.  At that point, it is too late. They must pro-actively address the school security issue and it starts, per federal recommendations, with a site safety and security assessment, performed by an independent, professional organization.  Simply put, schools cannot afford to wait.  Any negative media exposure of this sort could be devastating and result in a school closure or stereotype that will take years to overcome and rebuild student population.

SAFE School is an organization that conducts site safety and security assessments for schools that evaluates the community, criminal data, school floor plan, all buildings and grounds, evacuation plans, law enforcement response times and capacity, crisis notification systems, and crisis communication protocol.  

SAFE School is qualified to conduct your independent, professional safety and security assessment because of the extensive compilation of research that is put behind our assessments.  This information is passed through education forums to our site security specialists to ensure maximum knowledge of the industry.  We are advised by a
combination of current school administrators, law enforcement, government, and special forces.  Our industry knowledge, continuing school safety, and established best practices from conducting site security assessments qualifies SAFE School to perform your site
security assessment.  You can trust your school to SAFE’s assessment.  

We work for the school.  Many state and federal auditors and inspectors work for the government.  If a breach is suspected or observed, the government assessor is legally required to inform the appropriate agency to move forward with fines or other measures such as school closure.  By you pro-actively hiring SAFE, you are able to understand and be aware of areas of vulnerability or susceptibility in a non-threatening environment.  We are your friend.  Our assessments allow you to take or implement corrective action without a regulatory body governing your obedience and conduciveness.  You do not have to fear our findings and the effect they will have on your school. 

SAFE will make itself available for board or committee meetings.  We believe that the security of our children is of prominent importance and will work to attend, live or via conference call, all requested meetings.  We would ask that all those asking questions will have first reviewed our website and become familiar with the proposal.  This will ensure everyone’s time is efficiently consumed.  Travel costs and expenses incurred during this process should be covered by the school or district requesting the meeting.

SAFE has an email distribution list that it maintains in order to send out a monthly security tip.  We do send periodic safety and security updates.  To be added to our distribution, please input your information in the “Contact Us” page. 

This depends on the number of scheduled assessments and the travel schedule of our site security specialists.  We are generally able to accommodate the requested dates.  We prefer to schedule the assessments a minimum of 1-2 months in advance.  

It is important to note that we strive to meet our vision and mission of seeing every school in America assessed every three years by offering a discount on the initial assessment if the school schedules their three year follow-up assessment at the time their first assessment is ordered.  A $1,000 non-refundable deposit must be paid for the third
year’s assessment to receive the discount and is deducted from the amount of the assessment at that time.

We book assessments for up to three years out.  Payment in full is required when submitting the  Project Work Order and scheduling an assessment.

SAFE would be honored to speak at one of your school events (church, graduation, orientation, open house, etc.).  Please contact our office to make arrangements.  We do ask that travel expenses and a $500 honorarium be provided by the requesting party. 

Now.  There is value in assessing schools when school is in session and out of session. This should not be a major consideration as the most important aspect is to get one done as soon as possible.

While there are other companies that can conduct site security assessments, most of them are too expensive for private or Christian schools.  This factor, despite their lack of knowledge and philosophy by which private and Christian schools operate from, has prohibited them from seeing the private/Christian school vertical as a viable market.  
The bottom line is they see a business, we see a need.  The lack of margin and lack of being able to relate and understand the premise/principles that private and Christian schools follow makes it a challenging market.

Workplace safety and security assessments charge significantly higher than SAFE School. It is based on number and size of offices and often involves multiple facilities across the country or internationally.  The challenge in comparing these two is that it is impossible to create an apples-to-apples comparison since all other security assessment firms change their pricing on a proposal-by-proposal basis based on the firm’s ability to pay and depth of pockets.  We publicize our low, all-inclusive fixed cost to take all surprises out of the process.  In addition, most corporate site assessment firms are analyzing data destruction
procedures and processes along with security clearance based on personally-identifiable information (PII) and sensitive personally-identifiable information (SPII).  SAFE addresses these issues in how it secures the school's offices and record keeping practices. 

Our focus is on serving schools in the United States.  To fulfill our primary focus, we realize that providing low-cost solutions while delivering high-quality results are mandatory. We believe that when you acquire SAFE’s services, you are acquiring the highest level of
quality and performance available in the industry, both public and private, for profit and non-profit, available today.  We carefully control all aspects of the security assessment process to ensure the highest levels of efficiency and automation which allows us to implement technology solutions that reduce expenses.  

We never want price to keep a school from receiving a security assessment.  Contact SAFE today to schedule a site safety and security assessment for your school or to enroll in our Custom Dynamic Security program.