You need a plan to help you manage all types of hazards—weather, fires, criminal incidents, including active shooter—and direct your people to safety. Customized to your location and aligned with DHS FEMA recommended protocols, your plan will protect your people in an emergency. Since most emergency plans rarely cover everything that might be required for an incident, the plan needs to be adaptable to circumstances, innovative, and, when necessary, improvisational.

An all-hazards plan provides a basic framework for responding to a wide variety of emergencies. The steps necessary to mitigate an emergency begins with identifying the event as a possible emergency (e.g., seeing) and then making the proper notification (e.g., saying). None of this can happen efficiently and effectively without the proper preparation, planning, and training necessary to respond to a crisis. And the best way to implement these measures is to capture the necessary procedures in an all-hazards  plan.