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THE FACILITY MANAGER’S EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS HANDBOOK
By Bernard T. Lewis , Richard P. Payant

“STEP-BY-STEP GUIDANCE ON DEVELOPING A DISASTER RELIEF AGENDA

“Does your institution have a fully prepared and documented disaster relief plan?

“THE FACILITY MANAGER’S EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS HANDBOOK provides
step-by-step guidance for detailing an entire disaster response agenda. Proven, detailed
emergency preparedness plans with checklists for all potential problem areas you may
encounter, including bomb threats, natural disasters, labor strikes, accidents, workplace
violence, and a host of other serious situations. Readiness at both a macro and micro level,
from equipment checks through recovering from disasters.

“Designed to both lessen the impact and help ensure recovery from any number of
challenging scenarios, the book is an authoritative source for planning, executing, and
reevaluating the preparedness of your department and your company or agency’s facilities.
Includes comprehensive instructions to help you:
- Protect both the people and the property for whom you are responsible.
- Devise and integrate systems that reduce the chaos of who does what—and
when—in
an emergency.
- Develop management training programs that instill knowledge and cultivate
confidence
in your responders.
- Identify which of your organization’s assets require protection, and how you will
protect
them.
- Install a system for continuously updating your emergency response plan.

“You’ll be able to easily adapt the model presented in this book for your facility, no matter
where it is in the world. In addition, you’ll find advice on:
- Categorizing the types of potential emergencies
- Detailing the elements of emergency planning and organizing your team to
combat each
type
- Identifying the available and necessary resources to be used
- Preparing, rehearsing, and testing the plan
- Conducting debriefings and developing lessons learned following an emergency

“Whether you’re a facility manager, safety director, maintenance or plant engineer, THE
FACILITY MANAGER’S EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS HANDBOOK gives you
comprehensive instructions and proven tools to cultivate confidence and knowledge in your
staff, and establish complete readiness for unplanned events that can cause injury, death,
property destruction, or the disruption of work.”

“The first line of defense against emergency in any type of facility is a solid plan of action.
THE FACILITY MANAGER’S EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS HANDBOOK is a definitive
reference on what to do when disaster strikes.”

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“Facility managers have to be ready for anything: bomb threats, flooding, labor strikes,
workplace violence—the list goes on and on. Since 9/11, efforts toward emergency
preparedness have increased substantially.

“The Facility Manager’s Emergency Preparedness Handbook is a definitive reference on
facility safety and emergency response planning and management. This timely and
potentially life-saving book is filled with proven plans and tools for dealing with all potential
problem areas.

“The book includes comprehensive instructions and checklists for categorizing potential
emergencies, identifying the resources to be used, preparing, rehearsing, and testing plans,
and establishing training. It is an essential resource for every facility manager.

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EXCERPT FROM THE FOREWORD

“Following September 11, 2001, most facility managers and their companies and agencies
have developed a special intensity in their emergency preparedness efforts. Other facility
managers may have been more motivated by the preparations required by the approach to
Y2K. The crisis on September 11 and Y2K followed completely different scenarios, but both
cried out for comprehensive emergency preparedness management, and each actively
involved facility managers. It is indisputable that no facility manager can ignore emergency
preparedness.

“It is important to determine whether your department is prepared for
* A bomb threat
* Flooding
* A labor strike
* Workplace violence

“This book examines the subject of readiness at both a macro and micro level, from planning
for an emergency through recovering from disasters. It is comprehensive, and it is based on
best practice and years of experience.

“This book is written for facility managers by facility managers. For too long, facility
managers have been emergency planning reactors rather than proactive preparedness
managers. If properly applied at all levels within the facility management (FM) department,
this book can change your department in how it manages this important function.

“Between them, Rich Payant and Barney Lewis have more than seventy years of public and
private management and facility management experience. They know from whence they
speak! Payant is the director of facility management at Georgetown University and Lewis is
a renowned FM consultant. They practice what they preach!

“Approach this book differently than you would a book that you are reading for pleasure.
First, read the text to absorb the management principles from these two pros. Organize the
book with tabs to mark information that applies to your particular situation but read the Table
of Contents to be aware of the other topics covered. You will certainly want to incorporate
some of the information directly into your emergency preparedness and disaster recovery
plans. Then put this book where you can find it during an emergency. My guess is that this
book will be one of your most frequently referenced sources for planning, executing,
evaluating, and reevaluating the preparedness of your department and your company or
agency's facilities.

“Who will benefit from this book? Anyone tapped to prepare an emergency preparedness
plan will find 75 percent of it here. All that is required is to fill-in the site-specific information.
A facility manager can use this book to manage emergencies from planning through
evaluation. A building engineer can use the included checklists to implement preparedness
planning. Payant and Lewis's Facility Managers Handbook for Emergency Preparedness
provides something for every interested party within your department. Use it to develop your
department into a problem solver and a major player in the emergency preparedness of your
company, hospital, or government agency.
- Dave Cotts, P.E., CFM
IFMA Fellow

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“The Facility Manager’s Emergency Preparedness Handbook is a comprehensive reference
tool. It draws on the 70 years of combined experience its two authors have in the facility
management field. According to Lewis and Payant, facility managers must follow two key
pieces of advice: 1) A useful plan requires months, not days, in preparation and testing; 2)
Even the best plan is useless if not publicized and exercised. The book aims to help
companies ready themselves on the macro and micro levels to deal with all types of threats,
such as natural disaster, technological disasters, environmental threats, and human-made
disasters.”
- Contingency Planning & Management Magazine

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CONTENTS

FOREWORD
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PART I ELEMENTS OF EMERGENCY PLANNING

PART II FACILITY PREPAREDNESS PLAN
1 Organization
2 Emergency Management Responsibilities
3 Damage Assessment
4 Emergency Planning
5 XYZ Model of Emergency Preparedness Plan

PART III TYPES OF EMERGENCIES
6 Electrical Power Emergency
7 Elevators and Escalators
8 Fire Emergency
9 Hazardous Materials/Spills Emergencies
10 Indoor Air Quality
11 Labor Strike Plan
12 Lockout/Tagout
13 Storm Preparedness
14 Terrorism
15 Water Loss
16 Workplace Violence

PART IV CHECKLISTS AND FORMS

PART V RESOURCES, REFERENCES, AND WEB SITES

INDEX

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

“BERNARD T. LEWIS is a renowned facility management consultant. He is the author of
Facility Manager’s Operation and Maintenance Handbook and Facility Manager’s Portable
Handbook, and is coauthor with Richard P. Payant of Facility Inspection Field Manual. He
lives in Potomac, Maryland.

“RICHARD P. PAYANT is the Director of Facilities Management at Georgetown University.
He is coauthor with Bernard T. Lewis of Facility Inspection Field Manual. He lives in
Dumfries, Virginia.”

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April 2003, 400 pages. Order #DR707.
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