Barton Dunant’s Crisis Action Plan template (also known as an Emergency Action Plan) is designed for any organization to build a basic Crisis Action Plan for the “before, during and after” of any type of disaster (all hazards):
- Natural / Human-Made Disasters (both notice and no-notice incidents)
- Product and Process Disasters
- Fictitious Disasters
This template is generic for all organizations – and covers three major actions that everyone needs to be ready for: Evacuations, Sheltering-in-Place, and Lockdowns (Active Assailants onsite). Barton Dunant is offering this Crisis Action Plan template for free. We want as many organizations – big or small, for-profit or non-profit, etc. to have a Crisis Action Plan. If your organization has one now, use this to compare and possibly enhance your own plan. If you are not a decision-maker for your organization, but feel you need a better plan – get a copy and work through it with your team.
The Crisis Action Plan is part of a larger series of emergency plans, which also include Crisis Communications and Continuity of Operations, and follows the design construct of POETE: Planning, Organizing, Equipping, Training and Exercising.
This is the place to start – to make everyone safer in the work environment. This plan is in RFT format, and can be opened in MS-WORD or other word processors – and is ready to be customized to your own specific needs and situation.