Goal:
Create a program to respond to human needs during an emergency, including safe evacuation, sheltering, connecting employees with their families, tracking the injured, and purchasing the right emergency supplies.

Deliverables:

• If not already in place, determine proper emergency exit routes based on each floor’s configuration of personnel.
• Create an emergency response team structure that will be equipped to guide all employees in the proper and safe way to evacuate, drop and cover, or shelter in place, based on the types of events that the organization anticipates will occur.
• Train the emergency response team members on their roles and conduct a facility walk-through to equip them with the knowledge of how to respond based on the unique elements of the facility.
• Conduct an evacuation drill to test the readiness of the emergency response team and perform a critique of their performance for feedback and improvement.
• Work with the appropriate safety and human resources managers to develop emergency policies and procedures to address sheltering, emergency supplies for employees and response team members, employee notification, and emergency transportation plans.
• Work with the appropriate managers to develop all-employee education tools such as wallet cards, pamphlets, and other media devices to create employee awareness of the program and the proper actions they should take.