You should use what you learn in the assessment to determine how well you address the four phases of emergency management as outlined by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS): prevention/ mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. The Lake Forest Group works with you to create a clear, comprehensive, and customized emergency management plan (EMP) that focuses on these four phases and their critical emergency-related priorities to protect against all hazards. We address natural events like blizzards and hurricanes, accidental events like fires and power outages, and criminal events like assault and active assailant. An EMP customized specifically to the emergency and tailored to your property helps to ensure safety for staff and visitors when the unexpected occurs. The plan also ensures coordination and improved response with local first responders so their first visit to your location is not during an actual emergency.

• We design your EMP to be adaptable to circumstances, innovative, and, when necessary, improvisational. Your all-hazards plan provides a basic framework for responding to a wide variety of emergencies by addressing those that can happen anywhere as well as those specific to your location. Your EMP:
  • Ensures a tailored, all-hazards approach for emergency preparedness that accounts for natural, accidental, and intentional incidents and their prevention/mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery initiatives.
  • Includes emergency preparedness, fire prevention, and contingency operations, such as points-of-contact and meeting places, and integrates and leverages local resources, such as community-initiated automated alerts and liaison with first responders, particularly local police and fire.
  • Evaluates specific incident-related response protocols, such as evacuation, lockdown, and Run. Hide. Fight., and critical features such as safe rooms, shelter-in-place, assembly areas, and relocation sites.
  • Assesses your communication capabilities, emergency management teams and their training, and incident reporting and investigative methods.

Are you prepared for any emergency? You will be if your emergency management plan covers prevention/mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery measures. Contact The Lake Forest Group today and we’ll make sure it does.