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Facility Managers Emergency Preparedness Handbook
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by: Bernard T. Lewis, Richard P. Payant
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Facility managers have to be ready for anything: bomb threats, flooding, labor strikes, workplace violencethe list goes on and on. Since 9/11, efforts toward emergency preparedness have increased substantially.
The Facility Managers Emergency Preparedness Handbook is a definitive reference on facility safety and emergency response planning and management. This timely and potentially life-saving book is filled with proven plans and tools for dealing with all potential problem areas.
The book includes comprehensive instructions and checklists for categorizing potential emergencies, identifying the resources to be used, preparing, rehearsing, and testing plans, and establishing training. It is an essential resource for every facility manager.
STEP-BY-STEP GUIDANCE ON DEVELOPING A DISASTER RELIEF AGENDA
Does your instition have a fully prepared and documented disaster relief plan?
THE FACILITY MANAGERS EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS HANDBOOK provides step-by-step guidance for detailing an entire disaster response agenda. Proven, detailed emergency prepardedness plans with checklists for all potential problem areas you may encounter, including bomb threats, natural disasters, labor strikes, accidents, workplace violence, and a host of other serious situations. Readiness at both a macro and micro level, from equipment checks through recovering from disasters.
Designed to both lessen the impact and help ensure recovery from any number of challenging scenarios, the book is an authoritative source for planning, executing, and reevaluating the preparedness of your department and your company or agencys facilities. Includes comprehensive instructions to help you:
Protect both the people and the property for whom you are responsible.
Devise and integrate systems that reduce the chaos of who does whatand whenin an emergency.
Develop management training programs that instill knowledge and cultivate confidence in your responders.
Identify which of your organizations assets require protection, and how you will protect them.
Install a system for continuously updating your emergency response plan.
Youll be able to easily adapt the model presented in this book for your facility, no matter where it is in the world. In addition, youll find advice on:
Categorizing the types of potential emergencies
Detailing the elements of emergency planning and organizing your team to combat each type
Identifying the available and necessary resources to be used
Preparing, rehearsing, and testing the plan
Conducting debriefings and developing lessons learned following an emergency
Whether youre a facility manager, safety director, maintenance or plant engineer, THE FACILITY MANAGERS EMERGENCY PREPARDEDNESS HANDBOOK gives you comprehensive instructions and proven tools to cultivate confidence and knowledge in your staff, and establish complete readiness for unplanned events that can cause injury, death, property destruction, or the disruption of work.
The first line of defense against emergency in any type of facility is a solid plan of action. THE FACILITY MANAGERS EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS HANDBOOK is a definitive reference on what to do when disaster strikes.
Foreword
Following September 11, 2001, most facility managers and their companies and agencies have developed a special intensity in their emergency preparedness efforts. Other facility managers may have been more motivated by the preparations required by the approach to Y2K. The crisis on September 11 and Y2K followed completely different scenarios, but both cried out for comprehensive emergency preparedness management, and each actively involved facility managers. It is indisputable that no facility manager can ignore emergency preparedness.
It is important to determine whether your department is prepared for
* A bomb threat
* Flooding
* A labor strike
* Workplace violence
This book examines the subject of readiness at both a macro and micro level, from planning for an emergency through recovering from disasters. It is comprehensive, and it is based on best practice and years of experience.
This book is written for facility managers by facility managers. For too long, facility managers have been emergency planning reactors rather than proactive preparedness managers. If properly applied at all levels within the facility management (FM) department, this book can change your department in how it manages this important function.
Between them, Rich Payant and Barney Lewis have more than seventy years of public and private management and facility management experience. They know from whence they speak! Payant is the director of facility management at Georgetown University and Lewis is a renowned FM consultant. They practice what they preach!
Approach this book differently than you would a book that you are reading for pleasure. First, read the text to absorb the management principles from these two pros. Organize the book with tabs to mark information that applies to your particular situation but read the Table of Contents to be aware of the other topics covered. You will certainly want to incorporate some of the information directly into your emergency preparedness and disaster recovery plans. Then put this book where you can find it during an emergency. My guess is that this book will be one of your most frequently referenced sources for planning, executing, evaluating, and reevaluating the preparedness of your department and your company or agency's facilities.
Who will benefit from this book? Anyone tapped to prepare an emergency preparedness plan will find 75 percent of it here. All that is required is to fill-in the site-specific information. A facility manager can use this book to manage emergencies from planning through evaluation. A building engineer can use the included checklists to implement preparedness planning. Payant and Lewis's Facility Managers Handbook for Emergency Preparedness provides something for every interested party within your department. Use it to develop your department into a problem solver and a major player in the emergency preparedness of your company, hospital, or government agency.
Dave Cotts, P.E., CFM
IFMA Fellow
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Table of Contents
1. Organization
2. Emergency Management Responsibilities
3. Damage Assessment
4. Emergency Planning
5. XYZ Model of Emergency Preparedness Plan
6. Electrical Power Requirements
7. Elevators and Escalators
8. Fire Emergency
9. Hazardous Materials/Spills Emergencies
10. Indoor Air Quality
11. Labor Strike Plan
12. Lockout / Tagout
13. Storm Preparedness
14. Terrorism
15. Water Loss
16. Workplace Violence
Appendices:
Checklists and Forms
Resources, References, and Web Sites