A member of your school’s emergency response team must document the school’s postvention actions.

There are many reasons to document plans and actions:

• providing clarity to your emergency response team about what will be done/has been done, by who and when
• during your own grief and distress, documentation is a reference point you can go back to
• to refer to at a later time when you conduct a critical incident review.

If you have one person responsible for documentation this makes sure actions are not lost.

Your documentation is a record you can use for urgent information requests.

Ensure records are controlled and stored in one secure location.

Evidence of your actions

Types of documents include:

• circulars
• letters
• notices
• minutes
• personal notes
• audio files
• emails
• reports
• journals
• critical incident review notes and recommendations.