Emergency Response Planning Workshop :

Emergency Response Planning Workshop

The S2 Emergency Response Planning (ERP) Workshop is designed with two aims. First, instruct security, emergency management, and risk management professionals in the dynamics of emergency response and critical issues in preparing for crisis situations at the facility-level. Second, assist organizations in developing or improving current emergency response plans and supporting infrastructure.

The information presented in this course reflects best practices in emergency management as applied in both the government and commercial sectors of the security industry.

As an interactive workshop program, attendees will participate in a series of in-class exercises designed to assist students in assessing their organization’s readiness, infrastructure, and authoring effective facility emergency response plans (ERP).

Topics include:

Principles of Emergency Management • Risk Assessment • Emergency Team Planning • Emergency Communications • Facility Design & Preparations • Functional Planning • All-Hazard Event Planning • Emergency Event Procedures • Employee Training • Drill and Exercise Planning

NOTE: To achieve best value from this course, bring your current facility emergency response plans for use during in-class exercises. As one of the major benefits of this workshop, attendees graduating this course have opportunity to achieve a significant head start in authoring new and improved facility-specific emergency response plans.

- Understand emergency management principles and concepts of integrated all-hazard emergency response planning.
- Establish an effective organizational emergency response team.
- Design effective emergency communications infrastructure.
- Author all-hazards emergency response plans (ERPs) with consideration to organization and clarity, effective procedures, and critical safety matters.
- Develop effective plans and preparations to expedite post-incident recovery and minimize common real-world problems encountered by organizations in the aftermath of crisis events.
- Understand critical response priorities and safety measures for reducing risk during crisis events.
- Design an effective program for training employees, organizational drills, and tabletop exercises for testing and improving ERPs.

DAY ONE

Principles of Emergency Management
- EM and the Risk Management Process
- Emergency Management and Business Continuity Planning
- Stages of Emergency Management
- Roles and Responsibilities of Authorities
  - Incident Command Systems
  - National and Regional Emergency Management Plans
  - Readiness of Authorities
- Crisis Events and Risk Profiles
  - Exercise 1: Preliminary Risk Assessment
  - Emergency Response Planning
  - Stages of Planning and Preparation
Emergency Team Planning
- Primary Activities
- Responsibilities and Authorities
- Incident Command Principles
- Facility Incident Command Structure
  - Emergency Response Teams
  - Zone/Floor Captain Programs
  - Special Task Teams
- Exercise 2: Design a facility Emergency Response Incident Command Structure
Emergency Infrastructure
- Communications Infrastructure
  - Key Considerations
  - Communications Technology
  - Public Address Systems
  - Phone Systems
  - Mass Notification Systems
  - Exercise 3: Design a facility Emergency Communications Plan.
- Emergency Operations Centers
  - Responsibilities and Tasks
  - Physical Design and Technology
  - Staffing
- Facility Design Considerations
  - Evacuation & Egress
  - Shelter-in-Place Rooms
    - Severe Weather Shelters
    - Safe Rooms (Armed Assault)
    - Bomb Shelter Areas
  - Exercise 4: Identify facility shelter areas.

DAY TWO

Functional Planning
- Evacuation Planning
  - Egress and Evacuation Plans
  - Identifying Evacuation Assembly Areas
  - Safety Considerations
  - Disabled Persons
  - Exercise 5: Assess your current evacuation plans and preparations.
- Medical Emergency Preparations
  - AEDs and Medical Kits
  - Staff Training
- Accounting for All Persons in Aftermath of Events
  - Communication Strategies
  - Personnel Accountability Plan
All-Hazard Event Planning
- Fire
- Weather Emergencies
- Sudden Severe Storm
- Earthquake
- Tornado
- Death On-Site
- Medical Emergency
- Communicable Disease
- Mass Casualty Incidents
- Bomb Threats
  - Alternative Response Plans
- Suspicious Objects (Possible IEDs)
- Suspicious Vehicles
- Post-Blast Response
  - Localized Incident
  - Large-Scale Incident
- Exercise 6: Author an event plan for a suspicious vehicle on-site.

DAY THREE

All-Hazard Event Planning (Cont.)
- Hazardous Materials Incidents
- Indoor Hazmat/CB Incidents
- Outdoor Hazmat/CB Incidents
- Nuclear and Radiological Events
- Hazardous Mail Incidents
- Non-Threatening Intruder/Precautionary Lockdown
- Active Shooter/Armed Assault
- Hostage Situations
- Escalated Person
- Workplace Threats and Threatening Behavior
Organizing support documentation
- Exercise 7: Assess Written Emergency Plans
Employee Training
- Approaches and Methods
- Examples of Employee Training Programs
- Drill and Exercise Planning
- Best Practices
- Scheduling
- Drill design
- Safety Planning
- Evaluation and After Action Review
- Common Problems and Solutions
Graduation

Course Details

Instructor
Craig Gundry

Restriction Level
Level 1 – No Restrictions

Presentation Time
24-Hrs/3 Days (8:30am to 4:30pm)

Audience
Security Directors, Emergency Management Professionals, Business Continuity Professionals, and Risk Managers

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