Emergency Preparedness Planning

Development of Emergency Management Processes

The development and implementation of effective compliant emergency plans, procedures and processes are a crucial and imperative beginning when creating a facility or precincts emergency management plan. 

Every occupant and staff have a role within the facility or precincts emergency response plan. 

Starting an Emergency Management Plan can be a daunting task. We will guide those people responsible for implementing the Emergency Management Plan through the extensive regulatory and legal framework.

Establishment of Emergency Planning Committee (EPC) 

An Emergency Planning Committee is required to be formed for each facility or group of facilities by those people responsible for the life safety of its occupants and visitors. 

We can guide those people through all requirements to establish an effective Emergency Planning Committee (EPC) to ensure full compliance against all regulatory and standards. 

 We can facilitate or chair your annual EPC meetings, assist with emergency planning initiatives and record meetings for compliance purposes. Additionally, we can train EPC members on their role and responsibilities under all regulatory requirements and standards.

Design Creation and Installation of Emergency Evacuation Diagrams

We can provide custom designed evacuation diagrams to your facility or precinct to meet all regulatory requirements and standards.

Design and Creation Process Includes:

• A comprehensive inspection by one of our accredited Fire Safety and Emergency Planning consultants of your facility or precinct to identify all Emergency Life Safety and Fire Systems installed. 
• One of our in-house evacuation diagram designers will then design and create your evacuation diagrams to meet all regulatory standards requirements. 
• Your brand can then be added to the evacuation diagrams.
• Your diagram can be printed in almost any size in either landscape or portrait, using laminate, anodised aluminium or polycarbonate printing stock.
• Aluminium snap-lock frames can be provided, and installation arranged. 

The Emergency Management Plan is considered to be the most important document to a facility or precincts overall preparation item. 

An Emergency Management Plan (Manual) is required to be developed for each facility or precinct and must meet regulatory and standards requirements. 

The Emergency Management Plan must document as a minimum the organisational arrangements, systems, strategies and procedures relating to the response and management of emergencies.  

We guide those people responsible for the development of these documents to ensure full compliance with all regulatory and standards. 

Every facility or precinct must have an Emergency Control Organisation; ECO (Fire Wardens) and needs to be appropriate to the size of the facility and emergency response procedures. 

We can advise and recommend the ECO structure appropriate to the facility or precincts main purpose to ensure a compliant fit for purpose structure.

As a minimum the ECO structure will consist of a Chief Warden and where applicable:

Establishment of Compliant On-Going Emergency Training Schedule

An Active Armed Offender is defined as an armed offender who is actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people, and who demonstrated their intention to continue to do so while having access to additional potential victims.

Active armed offender attacks continue to be one of the most common tactics adopted by terrorists and other criminals around the world. This is, in part, due to the relative ease of access to weapons, including edged weapons and firearms – although the availability of weapons such as firearms varies between countries.

Crowded places are a preferred terrorist target because of the high volume and concentration of people making them attractive to attack. Crowded places pose a broad range of security challenges for owners, operators and those responsible for protecting the location.

Globally, active armed offender attacks have occurred, and continue to occur, in crowded places such as shopping centres, sporting stadiums, transport hubs and entertainment venues.

It is the responsibility of both government and private sector stakeholders to work collaboratively to ensure that integrated and effective plans and arrangements are in place to prevent or reduce the impact of terrorism.