FM5090

The emphasis of the course is on providing facilities managers with the strategic knowledge and tactics to prepare for, manage, and recover from an emergency or disaster. The course will require participants to ultimately create an organization-wide comprehensive integrated emergency management plan for a hypothetical corporation, and through interactive table-top exercises, test their plan's performance against internal and external threats and emergencies. Students will gain knowledge of the concepts of contingency planning, crisis management, risk assessment and mitigation, organizational continuity and incident command. They will better understand the principles and challenges of disaster planning and coordination from a business and regulatory perspective. These concepts will be of use to the students in develop- ing effective integrated emergency preparedness and recovery plans for their own organizations.