Most organizations do a good job when it comes to developing plans to protect their staff in the event of an emergency. However, there are several other key tasks that often go overlooked.
In today’s post we’ll look at the six tasks that every organization should address in the plans it draws up to be in readiness for when an emergency strikes.
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There is a right and wrong time for an organization to figure out how it’s going to respond to various types of emergencies. The wrong time is in the seconds after the fire alarm goes off, or trouble announces itself in some other way.
Responsible organizations plan ahead of time for emergencies, considering the different types of problems likely to occur and developing ways of dealing with them. They think about categories of an event (rather than specific problems), and they produce their plans in simple checklist form, excluding policy statements (or consigning such statements to the back). This is so their plans consist of simple steps that can be readily understood, taken, and checked off in the heat of an emergency. They also stage frequent drills, so their staffs are familiar with where the plans are and know their role in carrying them out.
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