Emergency Response Training
Familiarity with emergency incidents teaches us that in many cases, preparation for emergency incidents are insufficient. The design and construction of the facilities ignored possible failures. Emergency response procedures did not exist and if they did, they were unfamiliar to the facility’s workers. The professional entities inside the facility as well as the emergency rescue teams called to the site suffered from professional blindness and management of the incidents was lacking tactical professionalism.
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The solution and necessity: a comprehensive response plan (business continuity plan) deriving from risk assessments in the organization, taking into account all threat aspects and possible dangers, emergencies, human, infrastructure, operational and business.
Alongside the initial and swift response to threats to the facility’s workers and visitors, the plan also prepares responses that may be carried out in advance to problems of containment and control of these incidents.
A good emergency plan provides a response to the timely gathering of information during an actual event, prevention, contact and alternative communications with workers. It takes into account work with suppliers and customers, manufacturing in times of emergency, PR and more.
The most common type of incident is fire, but less common types of events must be taken into account as well, such as collapse or external harm, earthquakes etc.
Appropriate and comprehensive response to emergencies, provide calm during routine activities. Workers know when something happens, and when the uncertainty component of occurrences is great, they will be able to rely on a well-practiced familiar emergency plan.
Preparing such a plan can minimize and even prevent harm to workers and visitors at the site and when possible, minimize damage to infrastructure. It provides the basis for rapid and smooth transition to the back to normal restoration phase.
Employee drills facilitate the ability to control a crowd operating under pressure and uncertainty and efficient evacuation, blocking the area of the incident when necessary. These actions provide those managing the event with sufficient time to control the area and among other things, perform a quick and careful assessment of the situation that will bring about the correct and safe treatment of the event.
Drills “defeat” the forgetfulness curve, and turn the required responses into instinct. The subject of emergency preparations and drills must be managed on a cyclical basis and as part of the comprehensive emergency plan.