Would your routine office fire drill be able to handle the large-scale chaos of a major disaster? Can you get everyone out safely in the face of a factory fire, explosion, or natural disaster? In Emergency Evacuation Planning for Your Workplace: From Chaos to Life-Saving Solutions, Jim Burtles leads you step-by-step through a planning methodology that saves lives. You can be assured your company will be ready and that everyone will know what to do — whatever the nature of the emergency.
In one practical, easy-to-read resource, Burtles helps you create a comprehensive plan to evacuate people of all ages and health conditions from workplaces such as small offices, skyscrapers, stores, industrial plants, hospitals, college campuses, and more. His carefully constructed methodology leads you through the development of organization-wide plans – ensuring that your procedures align with best practices, relevant regulations, sound governance, and corporate responsibility.
His five stages of an Emergency Evacuation Planning (EEP) Lifecycle include:
Thought-provoking discussion questions, real-life case studies and examples, comprehensive index, and detailed glossary facilitate both college and professional instruction.
Downloadable resources and tools – practical toolkit full of innovative and field-tested plans, forms, checklists, tips, and tools to support you as you set up effective workplace evacuation procedures.
Instructor’s Manual available for use by approved adopters in college courses and professional development training.
Tabella dei contenuti
Preface Foreword by Melvyn Musson, FBCI, CDRP Foreword by Steve Dance, CISA Foreword by Vali Hawkins Mitchell, Ph.D., LMHC Introduction: The Essentials of Emergency Evacuation Planning 0.1 Are You Prepared? 0.2 Summary of How the Emergency Evacuation Planning Lifecycle Works 0.3 EEP Is an Ongoing Process Discussion Questions PHASE 1: – Set Up the Emergency Evacuation Planning Program 1.1 A Formal Methodology 1.1.1 The Lifecycle Model 1.2 Program Management 1.3 Policy Development and Management Approval 1.4 Management Approval 1.5 Making the Business Case 1.6 Managing EEP 1.7 Evacuation Triggers 1.8 Coordination with Business Continuity Management 1.9 Obligations and Responsibilities Key Actions Discussion Questions PHASE 2 – Embed EEP Into an Aware and Prepared Corporate Culture 2.1 BCI Good Practice Guidelines 2.2 Developing the Training Program 2.3 Presenting the Training 2.4 Publicizing Within the Company 2.5 Aligning With Business Continuity Key Actions Discussion Questions PHASE 3 – Developing an Understanding of the Environment 3.1 Data Collection Parameters 3.2 Physical Risk Assessment (PRA) 3.3 Emergency Impact Analysis (EIA) 3.4 Escape Requirements Analysis Key Actions Discussion Questions PHASE 4 – Determining Evacuation Strategy 4.1 Gathering a Dimension of Environmental Data and Analyzing Necessary Information 4.2 Concerns for the Disabled 4.3 Planning for the Disabled 4.4 Personal Emergency Egress or Escape Plans (PEEPs) 4.5 High-Rise Buildings 4.6 Signs and Signage Key Actions Discussion Questions PHASE 5 – Developing Plans and Procedures 5.1 Evacuation and Assembly 5.2 Making Sure Everybody is Safe 5.3 Evacuation Plan Content 5.4 Types of Premises 5.5 Helping People Afterwards Key Actions Discussion Questions PHASE 6 – The Ongoing Program: Exercise and Maintain the EEP 6.1 Peer Group Review 6.2 Test and Exercise Defined 6.3 A Delivery and Service Regime 6.4 Conducting Tests and Exercises 6.5 Review and Update 6.6 ‘Smart’ Fire Drills Key Actions Discussion Questions Epilogue Appendix A Appendix B Glossary Index About the Author How to Get Your Free Download