how your operations will work in conjunction with them and they get tangible training within your building layout. • If local law enforcement is not able to be present, bring in exam- ples of responding entities’ gear and attire, and teach their identifying - member that both FOH and BOH can be realistic targets. or spreading areas/levels of the building. • Notify your neighboring buildings, facilities, and neighbors in ad- vance, in case any aspects of the drill are presumed to be real by an outsider that is not participating. • Simulate shutting down elevators as possible evacuation routes to emphasize the use and knowledge of emergency egress staircases, as well as where they exit the building. • Along with the evacuation drill, take the opportunity to fully test your
So, take the New Year’s resolution for your job and now’s the time to schedule your emergency scenario drills for 2017. Make sure that you guaranteed to make your training more memorable to everyone. And that is what will save lives … not the training itself per se, but how in the recesses of their brain. Active learning applied to running an your facility preparedness to a whole new level.
Jennifer Nakayama is director of operations at the Hawai‘i Convention Center/ SMG in Honolulu.
Photo credit CC Salva Barbera IAVM 39 IAVM 39
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