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The Security Evacuation Handbook
This comprehensive two-volume series will teach you how to plan and execute security evacuations from locations where there is a clear and present danger to the safety and well-being of your people.
The Security Evacuation Handbook is a unique reference. It is the only commercially available guide on the subject of security evacuations.
This guide is an ideal reference for corporate security managers, security professionals and aviation operations managers who may be involved with the planning and execution of security evacuations.
If your organisation has evacuation plans in place for specific locations, the details contained in these handbooks will enable you to review your existing plans and improve them.
Volume I: Fundamentals & Planning
31 December 2020 · 392 pages · $28.95
ISBN: 978-981-14-9664-6
The first volume of a two-volume series, focused on evacuation fundamentals and planning.
Volume I will introduce you to the subject of security evacuations and walk you through the process of planning an evacuation. This volume includes the following:
- An introduction to some of the key foundational aspects of security evacuations
- A critical evaluation of government and assistance company evacuations
- A detailed analysis of evacuation options, including air, land and sea
- A discussion on the key policies that will drive evacuation planning, including evacuation eligibility
- A full breakdown of the evacuation planning process
By the time you’ve finished reading this volume, you’ll have the necessary knowledge to be able to plan your own security evacuations. From there, you’ll need to develop your experience in the field.
Also available in a bundled set with Volume II.
Table of contents
Preface
1. Foundations
2. Government evacuations
3. Service providers
4. Evacuation policies
5. Planning principles
6. The planning process
7. Evacuation by air
8. Evacuation by land
9. Evacuation by sea
10. Ports of departure
11. Assembly points
12. Route planning
13. Safe havens
14. Ground transport planning
15. Security planning
16. Communications planning
17. Medical planning
18. Visa requirements
19. Contingency funds
20. Security of information
21. The evacuee manifest
22. Evacuation options
23. Testing evacuation options
24. Contingency planning
25. Emergency evacuation plan
26. Stay behind planning
27. Evacuation from multiple locations
28. Writing the evacuation plan
29. Conclusion
Volume II: Decision-Making & Execution
31 March 2020 · 342 pages · $28.95
ISBN: 978-981-18-0666-7
The second volume of a two-volume series focused on the planning and execution of security evacuations.
This volume focuses on decision-making and execution of security evacuations.
The first part of Volume II focuses on evacuation decision-making. As you’ll learn, deciding when to evacuate is a complex decision. This handbook will introduce a number of decision-making frameworks designed to make these complex and critical decisions slightly easier.
After covering decision-making, this volume then works through each stage of a security evacuation, breaking down the key processes involved in executing an evacuation.
By the end of this volume, you’ll have a clear understanding of how to execute a security evacuation from any location that poses a clear and present danger to the safety and wellbeing of your people.
Also available in a bundled set with Volume I.
Table of contents
Preface
Part 1: Evacuation Decision-Making
1. The evacuation decision
2. The escalating risk framework
3. The infrastructure and resource availability framework
4. The evacuation window framework
5. The decision triggers framework
6. The go / no-go criteria framework
7. Benchmarking
8. Final thoughts
Part 2: Evacuation Execution
9. Introduction
10. Principles of evacuation execution
11. Basic steps of an evacuation
12. Leadership during an evacuation
13. Communications during an evacuation
14. Conducting phased withdrawals
15. Refusals to evacuate
16. Routine operations
17. Basic evacuation readiness
18. Advanced evacuation readiness
19. Executing an emergency evacuation
20. Movement to the Assembly Point
21. Waiting at the Assembly Point
22. Convoy movement
23. Movement to the Port of Departure
24. At the Port of Departure
25. At the Safe Haven
26. Staying behind
27. Going back
28. Conclusion
The Security Evacuation Handbook Bundle
$49.95 (total if sold separately $57.90)
This bundle includes The Security Evacuation Handbook Volume I: Fundamentals & Planning and the The Security Evacuation Handbook Volume II: Decision-Making & Execution
All handbooks in this bundle are in PDF format.
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