To whom
To directors and founders
It concerns kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, vocational schools and schools in regional education.
Minimum School Safety Standard MŠMT 2024
Minimum School Safety Standard MŠMT 2024 is a methodological recommendation of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (ref. MSMT-19322/2024-4, November 2024), which sets minimum requirements for ensuring physical safety in kindergartens, primary and secondary schools.
Defines 11 areas, which must be processed by the director and the founder in order to fulfill the obligation to ensure safety and health protection according to § 29 paragraph 2 of the Education Act. These include a safety analysis and plan, staff training and a school card for IZS.
The link leads directly to edu.gov.cz. We do not maintain our own copy so that the director always has the current version from the official source.
PDF · MŠMT
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no. MSMT-19322/2024-4
MŠMT 2024
Framework
The standard gives the school an operational regime, not just another document.
Director, founder, pedagogues i IZS they need to speak the same language. The minimum standard MŠMT 2024 combines analysis, plan, training and school card into one system.
Why
Because of real responsibility
The School Act requires ensuring safety and health protection. The standard shows how to practically fulfill this obligation.
A change
It replaces the older methodology
The documentation based on the material from 2015 needs to be updated according to the current concept of risks, roles and communication.
Risk
Non-public parts must remain private
The safety plan, coordination plan and school card for IZS contain vulnerabilities, contacts and procedures for intervention.
Amok and the active attacker: why the standard was created
The MŠMT 2024 standard responds to attack on the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in December 2023, the most serious incident of the amok type (active attacker) in Czech education. After him, it became clear that every school must have a prepared scenario for this type of threat, not just an evacuation order for a fire.
The standard does not have a separate chapter on amok. But the theme appears in several areas: risk assessment, security and coordination plan, staff training, model situation a school card for IZS.
What no one guarantees: an attack by an active attacker cannot be 100% prevented. The purpose of the standard and our training is reduce reaction time and thereby reduce the number of casualties. A quick reaction needs to be practiced, improvisation is not enough.
Police of the Czech Republic
Protection of soft targets
Amok at school: procedure and materials PČR
"Run, Hide, Fight" video spot and 8 MB presentation for management and staff.
Page · Police of the Czech Republic
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police.gov.cz, continuously updated
What specifically does the MŠMT standard state about the topic
- Area 6 Evaluation of the school's risk of attack from the outside and from the inside (employee, pupil, external attacker).
- Area 7 Security plan: run / hide / fight protocols, classroom lockdown, "security threatened" signal.
- Area 8 Coordination plan with PČR and IZS: who calls whom and what information to convey in the first minutes.
- Area 9 Staff training: regular training, not a one-off lecture. MŠMT states this explicitly.
- Area 10 Model situation: safe practice of procedures with staff, not realistic simulation with pupils.
- Area 11 School card for IZS: disposition plan, entrances, keys and contacts for PČR, HZS and ZZS at the time of intervention.
Eleven areas of the standard
What does the school have to process to keep the system together.
The standard has eleven areas. Don't read them as a list of attachments, but as a chain: concepts, rules, analysis, plan, training, model situation, and intervention card.
From input to tab IZS
01
Terminology
Unified terms: incident, extraordinary event, crisis situation and danger.
02
Legislation
Regulations including the Education Act, fire safety, GDPR and related obligations.
03
Methodological materials
Follow-up materials MŠMT, MV ČR and the Police of the Czech Republic, including models and recommendations.
04
Documentation
Non-public internal school documents: guidelines, plans, contacts and procedures.
05
Incident records
A record of both minor and serious events, without which risk analysis is based on impressions.
06
Security analysis
Risk assessment of a particular school, inputs, regime, climate and external threats.
07
Safety plan
Specific measures and procedures aligned with evacuation and fire safety solutions.
08
Coordination plan
Who calls whom, what they pass on and how the school communicates with the founder and IZS.
09
Education
Regular training of teaching and non-teaching staff, not a one-off presentation.
10
Measures at school
Organizational, regime and technical measures: entrances, cameras and signals.
11
School card for IZS
Non-public intervention sheet: layout, entrances, keys, contacts and priority information.
Implementation
The reality of the director
How to convert the standard from a methodology to a functional day at school.
Paper alone does not protect anyone. Continuity makes sense: screening, analysis, plan, training, model situation and regular updating.
01
Entrance screening
In 1-2 hours we will find out the status of entrances, cameras, evacuation, incident records and existing documentation.
02
Security analysis
Inspection of the building, interviews with the staff and risk assessment according to the specific school.
03
Plan and coordinate
Security and coordination plan approved by management, discussed with the founder and prepared for IZS.
04
Staff training
Teaching and non-teaching staff rehearse the first minutes, roles, signals, communication and decision-making.
05
Model situation
Safe procedure verification with staff. We evaluate decision-making and communication, we do not play theater for pupils.
06
Update
Documentation and habits are renewed annually, after reconstruction or when the school regime is changed.
How GBH Academy helps meet the standard
Accredited educational institution Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic for protecting soft targets. They conduct both the audit and the training former members of the URNA Police of the Czech Republic, the SOG of the Military Police and the 601st Special Forces Group. Od vstupního screeningu po roční aktualizaci předáváme konkrétní dokumenty, ne obecná doporučení.
What we deliver: 8 specific outputs
Security analysis
Risk assessment, inspection of the building, interviews with staff.
Safety and coordination plan
Specific documents approved by the director and discussed with the founder.
Draft regime and technical measures
Entrances, cameras, EMS and access control, including budget.
School card for IZS
Non-public information sheet for PČR, HZS and ZZS.
Staff education
Teaching and non-teaching staff and a separate block for management.
A model situation for leadership
Safe trial procedures: decision making and communication under pressure.
Report for founders
Priorities, schedule and budget as a basis for negotiations on finances.
Annual update
Editing of documentation, refresher training and registration of new incidents.
Why us?
MV ČR
Accredited institution
URN · SOG · 601
Operations team
3 000+
Graduates
CRo · ND · Ombudsman
References
CT · Prime · News
Media cooperation
We'll start with a non-binding screening. After 1-2 hours you will know where your school stands against MŠMT 2024 and what needs to be added. Details of the methodology and scope can be found on the page school security audit.
Non-binding screening for your school →FAQ for MŠMT 2024
It is a methodological recommendation, not a directly implementing decree. Section 29, paragraph 2 of the Education Act requires the school to ensure safety and health protection, and the standard is the most up-to-date interpretation of MŠMT how to fulfill this obligation. The ČŠI normally takes into account whether the school works with the methodology. It is a practically binding framework for founders and insurance companies.
Yes. Material no. MSMT-19322/2024-4 of November 2024 replaces the Methodological recommendation on the safety of children, pupils and students in schools (MSMT-1981/2015-1). If the school has documentation according to an older methodology, it needs to be updated.
Security Analysis (Area 6) and Security Plan (Area 7). No meaningful plan can be made without analysis. Without a plan, the staff has nothing to practice. Everything else in the standard follows on from these two documents.
Nope. The safety plan, coordination plan and school card for IZS are not public. They contain specific procedures, weaknesses and data that must not be accessible outside a narrow circle of authorized persons. The school rules (§ 30 of the Education Act) and general information about the measures are public.
The current version is kept by the school principal. The files IZS (CZ Police, HZS, ZZS) have access to it at the time of intervention. The card is updated when there is a fundamental change in the layout or regime of the school, usually once a year.
Self-help yes, if the school has sufficient professional capacity. However, most directors do not have the time or methodical guidance to build a functional system from 11 areas. MŠMT therefore recommends cooperation with a professionally qualified person, typically a security auditor. The documents differ: The minimum standard MŠMT 2024 is the methodology of school operation (what to document, how to train staff, how to communicate with the founder and IZS). ČSN 73 4400 is a technical standard focused on the planning, project and construction-technical solution of the building. The two documents are complementary and a professional audit covers both.
The entrance screening will take 1-2 hours. The security analysis and processing of the security and coordination plan usually take 2-4 weeks depending on the size and layout of the school. We set the price individually according to the scope (number of buildings, status of existing documentation, required scope of education). We will prepare a specific offer after a non-binding screening.
Yes. The school security audit from GBH Academy combines the Minimum Standard MŠMT 2024 with the technical standard ČSN 73 4400 and follows the MV ČR methodology for the protection of soft targets. Both the audit and the training are conducted by former members of the URNA Police of the Czech Republic, the SOG of the Military Police and the 601st Special Forces Group. The outputs are specific documents: security analysis, security and coordination plan, school card for IZS and report for founders.
Follow-up documents
Service
School security audit
Audit under MŠMT 2024 and ČSN 73 4400: security analysis, plans and card for IZS.
Technical standard
ČSN 73 4400
Crime prevention, safety management in the planning, implementation and use of schools.
Library
All documents for download
Official PDF MŠMT, MV ČR and the Czech Police and our practical guides.
Active attacker
Safety in schools
Practical preparation of educators for a crisis situation with an active attacker.
Do you need help meeting the standard?
We'll start with a non-binding screening. After 1-2 hours you will know where your school stands against MŠMT 2024 and what needs to be added. You will receive findings for your school, not a general report.
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