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Emergency Management
Emergency management includes four phases—mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. In response to the threat of terrorism, these four phases expand to include prevention or deterrence. Emergency management requires identification of potential threats, assessment of their impact on people, facilities, operations, and the environment, and action to reduce the probability of occurrence or the severity of consequences. Preparedness is the organization and training of people, provision of facilities and equipment, and the development of policies and procedures to respond to potential emergencies. The response phase of emergency management includes protective actions to safeguard people and actions to stabilize the incident. Recovery includes development of business continuity strategies and plans to maintain critical functions and restoration of facilities, systems, and equipment. Recovery also includes helping people with their physical and emotional recovery.
Preparedness, LLC can develop an emergency management and business continuity program for your organization and customize the program for individual facilities. We begin by assessing the threats that could injure people, damage property, interrupt your operations, or contaminate the environment.
We assess the availability and capabilities of personnel as well as
systems and equipment that can mitigate threats. We meet with public
emergency services to determine their response time, knowledge of your
facility, and capabilities to effectively manage an incident at your
facility. Then, we present response options so your management can
decide the functions of the emergency response organization and the
level of response.
We design emergency organizations making best use of personnel resources and public emergency services.
We write threat and site-specific procedures for protective actions including evacuation, shelter-in-place, and lockdown. We also write procedures for response to credible threats identified in the risk assessment phase. These include medical emergencies, fire, explosion, hazardous materials spills, utility outages, severe weather, earthquake, tornado, and hurricane. We address security threats including intruders, abduction or kidnapping, protests, and disturbances.
Acts of terrorism can be perpetrated in many ways, and our published work enables us to write detailed procedures for response to bomb threats, suspicious packages, chemical or biological agents, and radiological or nuclear weapons.
Our plan documentation includes use of “emergency response aides”
that are graphical in nature designed to allow the incident commander to
build an incident action plan with guidance for different threats. We
also write aides for building occupants to familiarize them with basic
emergency procedures. We provide all documentation in electronic format,
and we work with high quality commercial printers to produce custom
products.
Your emergency organization, policies, and procedures are only as good as the ability of personnel to respond effectively during an emergency. We conduct classroom training to familiarize personnel with the nature of each threat, the organization of the emergency response team, and their role and responsibilities as defined in the plan.
We design, conduct, and evaluate drills to train members of the
emergency organization and building occupants so they know what to do
when there is an emergency. We design and facilitate tabletop exercises
with scenarios that are specific to your facility, threat profile, and
emergency response plan that will challenge your thinking, enable you to
better use your plan, and identify weaknesses in your program.
We can also evaluate your emergency management program to determine whether it complies with regulatory requirements including our National Preparedness Standard; addresses the credible threats that may injure people, damage property, or interrupt operations; and meets your specific needs.
Click here to download emergency management services brochure.