Preparedness Committee
Few things are as essential to preparedness and safety as knowing your EAP, and as FDNY Lieutenant Christopher Flatley reported at our February Preparedness Committee meeting, the FDNY has the tools, the talent and the time to help your building team improve its EAP skills.
The FDNY has launched the High-Rise Office Building Emergency Preparedness Initiative specifically for that purpose, with the added benefit of sharing information with the private sector to improve emergency response operations.
The initiative has four basic components:
• A design team from the department’s Center for Terrorism and Disaster Preparedness (CTDP) will meet with your owner and the management team to learn about your plan, and develop a customized tabletop exercise for your EAP. The scenarios under examination will focus on all hazard response capabilities and can include Shelter-In-Place, In-Building Relocation, Partial Evacuation, Total Evacuation and related Non-Fire Emergencies.
• The CTDP team will work with your EAP Director to develop objectives specific to your building and management structure, and then create an exercise to meet all those objectives.
• Following the exercise, the FDNY design team professionals—all certified Master Exercise Practitioners by the National Fire Academy—will discuss their findings and observations. Those are then formulated into an After Action Report that will assess exercise performance and recommend a formal Improvement Plan.
• The After Action Report and the Improvement Plan will then be provided to both the FDNY and the building owner/manager so that both benefit: the FDNY is educated on the property and the ownership/management team gets the opportunity to evaluate and improve its preparedness capability.
This win-win opportunity is one you can set up easily for your team. Contact either Lieutenant Flatley at 718-281-8411 or Flatlec@fdny.nyc.gov or Battalion Chief Neil Hintze at 718-281-8485 or Hintzen@fdny.nyc.gov.
Learn about plans like this and more at our Preparedness Committee meetings, which are open to any BOMA/NY member. See the Calendar section in this newsletter or go to our web site calendar for dates and times: http://www.bomany.com/i4a/calendar/?pageid=3377&showTitle=1.
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