Described next are steps in planning a safety education program and articulation of the safety education curriculum. Examined next are such facets of creating a safe school environment as proper supervision of student activities, maintaining a safe school facility, emergency preparedness, school safety services, student and community involvement, pupil transportation services, accident reporting, and staff development programs. Impact of death on the living, the sick, and the bereaved. As the shock abates, the physical symptoms lose their intensity and we begin to absorb reality. If there is a persistent wish during grief, it is that the loss could be reversed.
Denial allows the slow assimilation of the loss.
At first the thought is that the report must be wrong. There is often the feeling that a mistake has been made or that the person will walk through the door at any minute. As time passes and preparation for change or for the funeral begins, reality is faced. Bargaining and self blaming requires a greater level of acknowledgment that the loss has occurred, but resistance lingers to the extent that we attempt to make deals to reverse fate. Anger and anxiety are emotional signals that our psychological equilibrium is out of sync.