A. First step.
1. Develop a sound plan which will define disaster or emergency in terms relevant to the organization doing the planning.
2. Establish and organization with specific tasks to function immediately before, during and following a disaster/emergency.
3. Establish a method for utilizing resources on hand for obtaining additional resources at the time of disaster or emergency.
4. Provide a recognizable means for moving from normal operations into and back-out of the disaster or emergency mode of operations.
B. Second step.
1. Determine priorities in making a plan. The relative importance of different types of activities must be recognized.
2. There must be an advanced determination of priorities, or else resources will be wasted.
C. Third step.
1. Define the purpose of the emergency plan in order to:
3. Call an organization meeting with the head of services, employee representative and key personnel; and
D. Last step.
1. The core team/stakeholders should organize or appoint a set of persons who will create the disaster control manual. This manual should be:
1. Develop a sound plan which will define disaster or emergency in terms relevant to the organization doing the planning.
2. Establish and organization with specific tasks to function immediately before, during and following a disaster/emergency.
3. Establish a method for utilizing resources on hand for obtaining additional resources at the time of disaster or emergency.
4. Provide a recognizable means for moving from normal operations into and back-out of the disaster or emergency mode of operations.
B. Second step.
1. Determine priorities in making a plan. The relative importance of different types of activities must be recognized.
2. There must be an advanced determination of priorities, or else resources will be wasted.
C. Third step.
1. Define the purpose of the emergency plan in order to:
- highlight the type of problems the executives, involved with the plan, will encounter;
- to require the executives to consider in advance how they will react when an emergency begins to develop;
- minimize effects of any incident of disaster proportions upon plant and community personnel;
- to keep property and equipment loss at a minimum;
- to ensure cooperation of all employees or office personnel charged with specific activities in time of an emergency; and
- to ensure appropriate cooperative action by and with outside civic and government agencies;
3. Call an organization meeting with the head of services, employee representative and key personnel; and
D. Last step.
1. The core team/stakeholders should organize or appoint a set of persons who will create the disaster control manual. This manual should be:
- authoritative;
- clear;
- precise;
- specific; and
- comprehensive.