What is emergency planning?

An emergency plan is a course of action developed to mitigate the damage of potential events that could endanger an organization's ability to function. Such a plan should include measures that provide for the safety of personnel and, if possible, property and facilities. It should also include provisions to assess the severity of an incident and implement steps to eliminate the problem -- for example, contacting firefighters in case of a fire.

Elements of emergency management planning include determining potential emergency situations and appropriate responses to each. Conducting a  business impact analysis can help an organization understand the risks posed by a various events. Finally, required resources should be identified and secured. 

Once an emergency situation has been resolved, an organization can move on to disaster recovery efforts to deal with any damage and/or restoration of normal business operations.

The face of crises and emergencies, whether to prepare or prepare for it, is a must for all those involved in the safety of building workers. So you must include a plan of how to evacuate the building you from working in emergency situations, and to identify safe assembly points, and signs and bag first aid as well as fire extinguishers and alarm. A set of instructions and guidelines to be implemented to ensure the success of the emergency evacuation. The plan emergency response to the following: • evacuation of everyone in the building or factory or school immediately after hearing the fire alarm bell and it points to the assembly that may set you are not very close to the building. • the formation and training of a team of emergency coordination and cooperation with civil defense. • control the risk and prevent the spread of fires. • evacuation plan relies mainly on the emergency team and the tools and equipment that are available and the instruction manual. And are trained to plan and monitor the reaction of the workers and assess the level of performance of the emergency team to avoid errors in the future. The plan should include two ways to evacuate and placed telephone numbers of fire departments and ambulance and security in a prominent position. The duties of the emergency team:   Is formed from the crisis management team and staff members are assigned the following duties: • start your fire alarm. • Stop work immediately. • organize the evacuation process and instruct them to Escape routes and to expose them to the assembly point in the safe and specific contingency plan for the building. • the transfer of documents and things of value away from the danger zone. • Provide first aid. • call an ambulance and civil defense. • Fire fighting and help the fire and rescue teams. • cut power to the place. • Close all doors and windows except for the exits earmarked for evacuation (which must be impassable toward the exit for the duration of the official working hours). It should be noted that he must include emergency evacuation plan and at least two ways to get out of the safe halls and rooms, and the staff trained.   Duties of managers and department heads   The contingency plan includes identifying the functions of managers and department heads in the event of the outbreak of the fire, according to the following: • Ensure a separate power supply. • Ensure doors and windows closed except for the exits allocated to evictions. • Oversee the evictions. • Ensure call emergency numbers (fire brigade, civil defense, Red Cross). • go to the assembly point to be sure of having all employees. With regard to pathways to escape or emergency exits, for heads of departments to ensure that all workers and building occupants on full knowledge about them and how to use them. And be clear and mounted with signboards. As the heads of departments to make sure that all emergency exits and corridors leading to open and barrier-free for the duration of the official working hours and be easy to open toward the outside of the rush of people.   Duties of employees: • remain calm and not confusion. • Do not use elevators. • go to the assembly points through Escape routes and emergency exits. • Speed ​​of response and securing his area before coming out of them like turning off appliances and gas bottles. • Alert employees not to run in order to avoid injuries. • prevent any employee from returning to the building for whatever reason. • If the inability of a person to leave the building, trapping him on fire, he has to resort to a room with a window to the outside and close the door well and is trying to put a cloth on the door so as not to implement the smoke to him and standing next to the window and ask for help. Security duties   Must guards during the fire, the maintenance of order inside and prevent the entry of persons who are not specialists in the building (curious) On the other hand one out to prevent officials or specialists from the main gate to end evictions and to control the fire and declaring an end to the state of emergency. As the school waits for guards to guide firefighters to the fire site. Means required of the building The provision of the means and equipment for emergency response plays a major role in the reduction of losses and is as follows: • Identify assembly points for the emergency situations. • provide a preliminary control devices for all types of fires and will be valid for immediate use. • provide the necessary medicines for first aid. • provide adequate emergency exits and signs that facilitates evictions. The duties of the fire-fighting teams:   The plan identifies teams or some of the people to fight the fire, so when you hear the fire alarm, they locate the fire by observing the painting illustrations for the alarm system and then do the fight against the fire extinguishing means available and appropriate for the class of fire. In the context of the work of fire-fighting, requires the control teams are also working to prevent the spread of fire by ensuring close windows and doors. Upon the arrival of firefighters, the control teams to cooperate with them and guide them to the site of the fire and type of devices and means of firefighters available. Exercises eviction   Designed exercises evacuation to test the operational plans (how to evacuate the building in case of emergency, remove the hazard and its consequences) and stand at the level of effectiveness of the team and emergency control, and the extent of coordination with other participants, and test methods of dealing with the field in the fire, rescue, ambulance and rescue neighboring facilities and assess the efficiency of Contact. The success of contingency plans on how efficient crisis management team at the facility and the extent of coordination with the Civil Defence and other competent bodies