Toolkit
Annual Plan Audit
To ensure the plan is relevant at all times, conduct a formal audit of the entire plan at least once
a year. There are many issues to consider when auditing your plan, including the following:
- How can you involve all levels of management in evaluating and updating the
plan?
- Are the problem areas and resource shortfalls identified in the vulnerability
analysis being sufficiently addressed?
- Does the plan reflect lessons learned from drills and actual events?
- Do members of the emergency management group and emergency response
team understand their respective responsibilities? Have new members been
trained?
- Does the plan reflect changes in the physical layout of the facility? Does it reflect
new facility processes? Are photographs and other records of facility assets up to
date?
- Is the facility attaining its training objectives?
- Have the hazards in the facility changed?
- Are the names, titles and telephone numbers in the plan current?
- Are steps being taken to incorporate emergency management into other facility
processes?
- Have community agencies and organizations been briefed on the plan? Are they
involved in evaluating the plan?
- In addition to conducting a formal audit of the entire plan at least once a year,
evaluate and modify the plan at these times:
After each training drill or exercise and after each emergency
When personnel or their responsibilities change
When the layout or design of the facility changes
When policies or procedures change
Remember to brief personnel on changes to the plan every time it is modified.
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