Updating emergency plans

In addition, the survey found workplaces are not practicing for prevalent events like medical emergencies and severe weather. As workplaces have had to change the way they do just about everything — from employees working remotely, to virtual meetings and conferences, and more, planning for an emergency has had to change as well. Prevention, response, and mitigation planning is critical to ensure employee safety operations and business continuity in the out years.

Connect with community security and preparedness organizations. With these mission partners, plan and conduct with a risk assessment to identity potential emergency scenarios. Having this understanding of potential hazards and crisis scenarios enable you to determine resource requirements and to develop plans and procedures to prepare your business.

And, establishing trusting relationships with mission partners before an incident occurs can help speed up response when an incident occurs. The whole community and its partners should work together to collectively address the needs of the affected.

Take the time now to plan how you will handle a security or health event should one occur. Learn from other events, such as the pandemic, to inform your plans. Be aware of current threats related to your area which may impact your business sector, and develop plans, including security, emergency response, emergency communications, and business continuity plans.

We will notify the building alarm service and the UW Police Department upon completion of the test of the building alarm system. We will conduct our usual post-evacuation briefing at the assembly point that covers needs during an actual emergency. Resume normal building operations. Nevertheless, these overarching elements should, at least, get you in the ballpark.

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When facility managers create an emergency plan or have inherited one from previous FMs , they may think their task is complete and their facility and occupants are now safe. That can be a big mistake. The plan needs to be a living document, says Sem, and Welling agrees. Welling warns, though, that there are some codes and regulations that require more frequent reviews, such as in the case of hazardous materials.

Locally, some jurisdictions require educational facilities to review their plans more often than annually as well. Be sure to research any such requirements in your location. In addition, key contact information in an emergency plan should be kept in an appendix document so it can be updated as needed without a formal review process, says Welling. Keeping the contact information all in a single document attached to the emergency plan will make updating easier.

Emergency plans should also be workable, says Sem. Plans don't have to be lengthy, they have to be usable," he says.

They should be organized well with reference tabs in order to get immediately to a section that tells people what to do. Sem also warns against having an electronic-only document.