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Emergency Management <br />Before Disaster Strikes <br />• Develop a workable Plan <br />• Work with your colleagues and counterparts in the police department, fire department, <br />health department, public buildings department, and emergency management office to <br />develop a plan that will be successful <br />Review your plan regularly and update it when your system changes or new threats emerge <br />Plan for the worst. Determine what you will do if... <br />❑ Normal communication system (television, web, radio, telecommunication) are not <br />available <br />❑ Electrical power is cut off <br />❑ There are massive deaths or injuries <br />❑ There are air -borne chemical or biological hazards <br />• Practice, Practice, Practice <br />❑ Conduct regular emergency /disaster drills (not just fire drills) to keep skills sharp and <br />your plan up -to -date <br />❑ Build interagency relationship; every level of transit leadership should personally knows <br />his /her counterparts in the agencies and organizations who will be responding to an <br />emergency situation <br />Some Things that Really Matter <br />❑ Put the resources in place to execute your plan — people, equipment, facilities <br />❑ Identify alternative means of transportation for the transit -using public in case one or more <br />of your primary modes is disabled <br />❑ Radio communication capability is essential because cell phones are not reliable during <br />the emergencies; be sure you have multiple communication systems, in case one or more <br />is inoperative <br />❑ Conduct criminal and credit background checks on every employee <br />❑ Make sure every employee has a photo identification and require that it be displayed at <br />all times <br />Emeruency Response <br />• Establish Command Central <br />❑ Immediately set up a joint operations center so that your key responders can talk to each <br />other face -to -face and make joint decisions <br />Although it was not clear at the outset whether there was a terrible accident or a terrorist <br />incident, the command center leadership made the decision to respond to the situation as a <br />terrorist attack. As a result, the NYC transit authority immediately evacuated all trains, <br />passengers and transit employees from the World Trade Center area — and there were no <br />transit - related deaths or serious injuries and no equipment losses as a result of the collapsed <br />building. <br />04/25/16 PDFConvert. 1073 5. 1. Section 6_- _Security Attachment qumber 5 \n <br />F -9 Page 296 <br />