Emergency Preparedness
We offer comprehensive consulting services for emergency preparedness, security, and crisis management. Our expert solutions help organizations effectively prepare for and respond to emergencies and crises.
We help you prepare for the worst. Have you kept your frameworks, procedures + resources up to date?
We work closely with clients in industry and government to establish an all-hazards approach to comprehensive, well-defined emergency preparedness, crisis management, emergency response, business continuity, and consequence management plans that span all critical phases — from mitigation and emergency preparedness to response and recovery.
Emergency Management Plans (EMP) Assessment + Development
- Assessment, update, or creation of your emergency preparedness and crisis management plan
- Alignment of the EMP with your current emergency management capabilities as well as the National Response Framework, including the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and the Incident Command System (ICS)
- Recommendations on the most attractive and critical opportunities for improvement, in the near-term and over time
Security Crisis Management Planning
- Close collaboration with your teams to develop a preparedness plan to manage unexpected security emergencies that require swift decisions
- Planning to counter risks associated with severe weather and other natural events, leadership crises, technological incidents, workplace violence and risks to your entity’s mission, brands, performance and reputation
- A focus on ensuring that your business or agency can continue to perform essential functions under a wide range of circumstances
Organizational Resilience Strategies
- Resilience strategies that help you anticipate, adapt and quickly recover from unforeseen and unplanned events
- Field-tested, practical and proven methodologies to evaluate your organization’s resilience characteristics, core capabilities and critical dependencies
- Integration of key security, emergency management and business continuity priorities into a robust and highly customized action plan
Operational Security (OPSEC) Planning
Integrated planning approach to operational security and the critical components that support continuity of operations planning (e.g., physical and technical security, personnel security, cyber security) and continuity of operations components (e.g., essential functions; orders of succession; delegations of authority; continuity facilities; continuity communications; vital records management; human capital; tests, training and exercises; devolution of control and direction; and reconstitution).
Active Shooter Response Planning
- Creation of a customized plan to prevent, mitigate, respond to and recover from an active assailant or shooter incident
- Established either as a stand-alone plan or, preferably, integrated within the organization’s broader Emergency Management Plan
Business Continuity
An unplanned event — such as severe weather, power outage or virus outbreak — can severely disrupt organizations and prevent normal operations. The ability to restore operations as quickly as possible can minimize financial loss and can make the difference between business survival and failure. So, what is the purpose of a business continuity plan? Effective business continuity plans and structures identify critical business processes and the necessary recovery steps to limit financial or operational impact, improving organizational resilience during and after an event.
Emergency Response Planning
Whether plans are mandated by corporate policy or regulatory agencies, effective response plans can reduce impacts of an emergency on employees, the environment and assets. We develop response plans for every industry and operation. These plans incorporate site-specific actions and consistent best-practice procedures that significantly improve quality, accessibility and accuracy of response planning programs.
Mass Notification + Emergency Communications Systems
In an emergency, it’s often difficult to predict and manage people and their actions. Having a well-designed Mass Notification and Emergency Communications system in place to alert, communicate and share information can save critical response time and potentially lives. Working with building owners, designers and architects, we determine system performance requirements and the right basis of design. System integrations with information display, distributed recipient systems and various building systems will ensure that the movement of people is most effective in your emergency.
Wildfire Risk Mitigation
Our team of 500+ diverse specialists are committed to supporting the resiliency of people, properties, assets, and operations through an increasingly complex range of hazards, risks, and vulnerabilities due to wildland fires. Our wildfire risk mitigation and resilience experts support preparedness, planning, response and recovery strategies, incorporating the latest research in wildfire science, climate change, disaster management and fire engineering.
Fire + Emergency Services Consulting
In addition to fire protection engineering, Jensen Hughes provides fire and emergency services consulting to public and private agencies worldwide. Our team of experienced consultants support clients in achieving public safety through a balance of advanced built-environment features and innovative emergency response systems.
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MEET OUR EXPERTS
BS, Industrial Technology Design & Development, BS, Photography
Certified Fire Protection Specialist
BS, Business Management, AS, Criminal Justice, Member, ASIS International
Juris Doctor, Master of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Fulbright Fellowship for Police Studies, United Kingdom, National Academy Graduate, 192nd Session, President, Board Member, Member, Member
MA, Forensic Psychology, BS, Psychology, Board Member, Programming Co-Chair, Treasurer, Member, Member, Received Formal Training
Alumnus, National Intelligence Academy Alumni, Alumnus, Center for Creative Leadership, Past Voting Member, Interagency Telephone Working Group, Past Member, National Technical Investigators Association (NATIA), Past Liaison Member, Great Lakes Bomb Technicians, Past Member, National Centrex Users Group, Past Member, DMS-100 Users Group
Member, American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS), AA, Computer Science
Leadership + Mgmt Edu. for Experienced Law Enforcement Professionals, Graduate
Mechanical Engineering, Member, Member
