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Secure Quick Guide

Field Recall Resource After completing S — Secure

Secure Quick Guide

Your goal: Recall the Secure scan, take the immediate protective action within role, organize functions, and state the next action and return trigger.

Secure procedureLook → Protect → Reduce → Organize → Decide

Controlled review · Version 2026.08 · one-page recall aid.

This quick guide does not replace S — Secure or local emergency procedures.

Use the approved emergency route immediately when danger or medical instability cannot safely wait. The guide does not create emergency, medical, clinical, suicide-safety, legal, accessibility, reporting, privacy, or other authority.

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SAFE CARE Secure Quick Guide

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Condition Ask now
Threat Is there current violence, a weapon, credible threat, or dangerous behavior?
Medical Is there injury, altered responsiveness, breathing difficulty, ingestion, severe symptoms, or deterioration?
Access Can responders reach the person, see what matters, communicate, and leave safely?
People Who is helping, escalating, exposed, missing, or requiring a separate function?
Pressure What noise, crowding, questioning, conflict, time pressure, or sensory load can be reduced?
Position Are distance, exits, sight lines, objects, traffic, elevation, or responder placement adding risk?
  1. Look — pause and scan Threat, Medical, Access, People, Pressure, and Position.
  2. Protect — take the required emergency action and immediate protection within role.
  3. Reduce — remove avoidable pressure, exposure, objects, noise, crowding, or competing direction.
  4. Organize — assign functions within authority; otherwise activate the required capability and confirm what it accepts.
  5. Decide — approach, hold, change the arrangement, or withdraw and escalate.

Condition → Action → Owner → Next action → Trigger

“Medical condition is uncertain after reported ingestion. Emergency medical response is active. I retain scene access and student communication until accepted. Next action is responder entry through the east door. Reopen or escalate for reduced responsiveness, breathing change, violence, blocked access, or loss of the current support.”

Move only when Secure is sufficient for the next action

Section titled “Move only when Secure is sufficient for the next action”

Move when the defined next action can occur without preventable added harm and every remaining consequential condition has a current owner, accepted capability, or emergency route. Quiet, cooperation, responder arrival, or one removed hazard is not enough by itself.

Return to Secure for new danger or violence, medical deterioration, blocked access or exit, new or escalating people, renewed pressure, unsafe position, failed support, or a next action that can no longer occur safely.

Return to the complete S — Secure module for the full procedure, scenarios, role limits, completion test, and performance check.