In this course, you will learn the purpose and type of emergency evacuations. Scenarios involving emergency evacuations at work can include fire, flammable or toxic gas leak, floods, snow, ice, utility outage (such as power and water).

The course also covers the framework of the OSHA standard 29CFR 1910.38, Emergency Action Plans. These are required in the USA. The course will assist the learner with business continuity options as well as list the types of emergency evacuations.

Emergency evacuations fall into three basic categories; site-specific hazards; man-made hazards and natural disasters. The learner will learn how to assess the potential emergency evacuation scenarios and take proactive measures to reduce/eliminate the potential damage to the company.

The student will learn the emergency planning process where strategies are discussed to get input the from employees. Employees know the hazards much better than management. Part of the planning process is to let employees run the emergency planning process to help garner support. The elements of the Emergency Planning Process are:

1.Establish a team

2.Determine hazards and response (gap assessment)

3.Implement gap assessment and develop plan

4.Implement plan, drill and act on results

The emergency planning process is based on the plan, do, check, act and can be integrated easily into existing ISO standards such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001. Seldomly discussed aspects of emergency planning such as assessing adequate insurance, to have a diesel or natural gas backup generator, and asking valuable questions such as if; when; where the computer files are backed up and stored. These will be an integral part of the recovery process.

Students who complete this course will be granted 0.1 CEU.