Emergency preparedness for business professionals : how to mitigate and respond to attacks against your organization / Bradley A. Wayland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wayland, Bradley A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emergency management.

Business enterprises--Security measures.

Business enterprises.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Emergency Response for Business Professionals provides business managers who do not have in-house security expertise as well as the security professionals who advise them with an overview on how to prepare and react to potential unexpected incidents that can occur to their organization. The book begins with an overview of the primary principles of business emergency planning, then delves into the considerations that an organization should take when developing their emergency plan. This includes the mitigation strategies for preventing the incident from occurring in the first place. It then shows how to identify and assess the risks the organization may realistically face, choose the commensurate security measures, and create the proper emergency response policies and procedures. The book explores how to respond in the event of an actual emergency, and how to recover business operations to full functionality after an incident occurs. Emergency Response for Business Professionals looks closely at the most common emergencies that pose concerns for many organizations, such as active shooters, unauthorized visitors, workplace violence, embezzlement, fraud, theft, natural and man-made disasters, major equipment malfunctions, sabotage, labor disputes, and loss of key personnel, among others, along with the appropriate and accepted responses used to respond to each type of incident. It covers methods for training employees in emergency response, and concludes with how to plan, prepare, and conduct emergency response exercises within the organization.

Contents:

""Front Cover""; ""Emergency Preparednessfor Business Professionals: How to Mitigate and Respond to Attacks Against Your Organization""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Overview of the Areas to Be Covered""; ""Why Should Your Organization Plan for Emergency Response?""; ""Risk Assessment and Emergency Response Planning""; ""Using the Risk Assessment Matrix to Develop an Emergency Response Plan""; ""Summary""; ""End Notes""; ""Chapter 1 - Emergency Incidents""; ""Types of Emergency Incidents""; ""Standard Response Actions to Emergency Incidents""

""Planning for Emergency Incidents""""Chapter 2 - Emergency Response Planning Factors""; ""Emergency Response Planning Factors""; ""Emergency Response Planning Factors""; ""Chapter 3 - Mitigation""; ""Security Principles""; ""Balancing Security Measures with Business Efficiencies""; ""Security Awareness""; ""Security and Mitigation Measures""; ""Physical Security Measures""; ""Information Security Measures""; ""Personnel Security and Mitigation Measures""; ""Emergency Response Roles and Responsibilities""; ""Emergency Response Plans and Procedures""; ""Summary of Mitigation""; ""End Notes""

""Chapter 4 - Preparedness""""Communications""; ""Command and Control""; ""Collection and Distribution of Resources""; ""Coordination""; ""Congestion""; ""Conclusions Regarding Preparedness""; ""End Note""; ""Chapter 5 - Response""; ""The Two Primary Types of Response""; ""Key Elements of Emergency Response""; ""Summary of the Response Phase""; ""End Notes""; ""Chapter 6 - Recovery""; ""Damage Assessment""; ""Cleanup and Salvage Operations""; ""Customer and Client Information""; ""Mutual Aid and Agreement Activities""; ""Business Restoration""; ""Business Continuity Planning""

""Summary of Recovery Operations""""End Notes""; ""Chapter 7 - The Crisis Management Team""; ""Crisis Management Team Tasks and Composition""; ""Crisis Management Team Considerations""; ""Summary Regarding the Crisis Management Team""; ""End Notes""; ""Chapter 8 - Emergency Response Training""; ""Initial Emergency Response Training""; ""Recurring Safety and Security Training""; ""Conclusions on Emergency Response Training""; ""Chapter 9 - Emergency Response Exercises""; ""Exercise Planning Considerations""; ""Exercise Planning Process""; ""Major Types of Exercises""

""Summary of Emergency Response Exercises""""Chapter 10 - Responding to Emergency Incidents""; ""Various Types of Emergencies and their Accepted Response""; ""Emergency Response Checklists""; ""Summary of Responding to Emergency Incidents""; ""End Notes""; ""Chapter 11 - Emergency Response Case Studies""; ""Columbine High School Active-Shooter Incident""; ""Oklahoma City Federal Building Truck Bombing""; ""Hurricane Katrina""; ""“Simply Smashing� Embezzlement Case""; ""Conclusion of Emergency Response Case Studies""; ""End Notes""

""Chapter 12 - Legislation Related to Emergency Response""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 23, 2015).

ISBN:

0-12-802384-8

OCLC:

907467275