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This guide is intended as a resource to help property professionals develop emergency, evacuation and recovery plans.  An emergency plan is a set of policies and procedures intended to reduce or mitigate any number of threats that may affect a facility.  A comprehensive plan reduces the threat of emergencies through prevention, early detection, notification, effective evacuation or relocation measures, control/mitigation, communication and recovery operations. 

To determine how comprehensive your plan is, consider the following questions about the content of your current emergency plan:

• Does your plan contain procedures for reporting an emergency?
• Does your plan contain instructions for tenants to follow when an alarm sounds?
• Does your plan contain illustrations of floor layout, emphasizing the location of emergency exits, manual fire pull stations, fire extinguishers and emergency phone numbers?
• Does your plan contain a section highlighting the responsibility of tenants to select a fire marshal for their floor and the responsibilities of the designated fire marshal?
• Does your plan contain a section on how to conduct fire/evacuation drills?
• Does your plan contain a section on emergency prevention?
• Does your plan contain a section on how to handle bomb threats, biological attacks or other threats to the building?
• Does your plan contain a section on how to deal with natural disasters such as floods, power outages, hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes?
• Does your plan contain means for communication with/to your tenants and include considerations for breaks in traditional means of communication? 

For today’s property managers it is important to understand that current and prospective tenants will consider a building’s emergency preparedness plan as a key element in their leasing decision.  For this reason, emergency planning is not only about protection of assets and minimizing liability, it is also about protecting, attracting and retaining tenants.

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