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: 
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<li>Set up the EEP program Bring management on board, get executive buy-in and policy approval to proceed.</li> <li>Embed EEP into the corporate culture Begin your awareness campaign immediately, getting the message out to the community you are serving.</li> <li>Understand the environment Explore which areas of the organization have emergency plans and which need to be covered in your overall EEP/</li> <li>Agree upon an EEP strategy Work closely with people who know the premises to identify threats that could trigger an emergency, and visit and evaluate potential exit points.</li> <li>Develop evacuation procedures Look at the people, their probable locations, their existing challenges. Determine if you will need one plan or a suite of plans.</li> <li>Exercise and maintain the EEP Run regular exercises to familiarize everyone with plans and choices as often as needed to accommodate changing personnel and individual needs. Because this a long-term process, go back to the earlier parts of the cycle and review the plan to keep it current.</li>
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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.

Emergency Evacuation Planning for Your Workplace: From Chaos to Life-Saving Solutions

Business & Money

Burtles, Jim

Management & Leadership

Rothstein Publishing

Are you are a Business Continuity Manager or training for the job? Are you ready to keep the business up and running in the face of emergencies ranging from earthquakes to accidents to fires to computer crashes? In this second edition of Principles and Practice of Business Continuity: Tools and Techniques, Jim Burtles explains six main scenarios. He promises: If you and your organization are prepared to deal with these six generic risks, you will be able to recover from any business disaster.Using his decades of experience, Burtles speaks to you directly and personally, walking you through handling any contingency. He tells you how to bring people together to win executive support, create a Business Continuity Plan, organize response teams, and recover from the disruption. His simple, step-by-step actions and real-world examples give you the confidence to get the job done.To help you along, each chapter of Principles and Practice of Business Continuity: Tools and Techniques starts with learning objectives and ends with a multiple-choice self-examination covering the main points. Thought-provoking exercises at the end of each chapter help you to apply the materials from the chapter to your own experience. In addition, you will find a glossary of the key terms currently in use in the industry and a full index. For further in-depth study, you may download the Business Continuity Toolkit, a wealth of special online material prepared for you by Jim Burtles.The book is organized around the phases of planning for and achieving resiliency in an organization: Part I: Preparation and StartupPart II: Building a FoundationPart III: Responding and RecoveringPart IV: Planning and ImplementingPart V: Long-term ContinuityAre you a professor or a leader of seminars or workshops? On course adoption of Principles and Practice of Business Continuity: Tools and Techniques, you will have access to an Instructor s Manual, Test Bank, and a full set of PowerPoint slides.And, as a bonus for further in-depth study, students may download a wealth of custom online material extensive tools, templates, and reference materials specially prepared by Jim Burtles.

Principles and Practice of Business Continuity: Tools and Techniques 2nd Edition

Insurance

Rothstein Associates, Incorporated

Originally inspired by the horrific evacuation challenges of 9/11, this groundbreaking book is the result of 10 years of research into global best practices for getting everyone out safely — every time! First ever, all-in-one, practical resource for evacuating people of all ages and health conditions from all kinds of workplaces, including small offices, skyscrapers, business and college campuses, industrial plants, stores, hospitals, and schools. Based on the Business Continuity Institute’s proven 6-Phase Business Continuity Lifecycle Model that encompasses development, delivery, and maintenance of organization-wide plans — to ensure that your methodology aligns with best practices, relevant regulations, sound governance, and corporate responsibility. Comprehensive package of 600+ pages of book and downloads containing tools, templates, case studies, sample plans, forms, checklists, articles, and practical tips. Thought-provoking discussion questions requiring application of principles to solve problems, numerous real-life case studies and examples, comprehensive index and detailed glossary facilitate both college and professional instruction.

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Emergency Evacuation Planning for Your Workplace: From Chaos to Life-Saving Solutions

Principles and Practice of Business Continuity: Tools and Techniques 2nd Edition

Emergency Evacuation Planning for Your Workplace: From Chaos to Life-Saving Solutions