When the day goes wrong, your people should already know what to do.
Elemental Protection builds emergency preparedness and response plans for businesses, nonprofits, schools, and public agencies. We work through 20 elements of business continuity so nothing important gets left to chance.
The assessment and the action plan that comes from it cost nothing.
A downloaded template is not a plan.
A generic template can be filled in over an afternoon. It looks finished, it sits in a binder, and it gives everyone the feeling that the work is done. That false confidence is the real hazard.
A plan that works is specific to your buildings, your people, and the things you cannot stop doing. It names who decides, who calls whom, and where everyone goes. And it has been practiced, so the first time people use it is not the day they need it.
- Sound the alarm and call 911.
- Move everyone to your assembly area.
- Account for every person by name.
- Report your count to the incident lead.
Four steps, always in this order
We find out where you stand before we change anything. Then we fix, reduce, and sustain.
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Step 1
Assess
Score where you are today on each of the 20 elements. Find the gaps and rank the risks behind them.
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Step 2
Correct
Fix what is missing or broken first: roles, contact lists, policies, and the procedures people will follow.
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Step 3
Mitigate
Lower the odds and the damage of the hazards that matter most to you, before they arrive.
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Step 4
Protect
Train, drill, and review on a schedule so the plan stays current and people can run it without the binder.
The 20 elements of business continuity
Every organization is made of the same parts. An emergency tests all of them at once. Select an element to see what it covers.
How an engagement runs
Five phases, start to finish. You see the findings and agree on the target before any plan gets written.
Readiness analysis
A maturity assessment across all 20 elements, a gap analysis, and a risk analysis. We review the results with your leadership and agree on where you are and where you need to be.
Business impact
We identify your essential functions, what each one depends on, and how long each can be down before real harm is done.
Alignment and response design
We line up your systems, people, and resources with those essential functions, then write the policies and procedures that close the gaps.
Plan development and training
The pieces come together into one plan. Your staff learn their roles and get the quick-action cards and forms they will use.
Plan maintenance
Drills, exercises, and periodic reviews keep the plan matched to reality as your people, buildings, and risks change.
Full engagement
All five phases in depth, for organizations with complex operations, multiple sites, or regulatory requirements.
Light engagement
The same method, scaled to the essentials, for smaller organizations that need a sound plan without the full build.
Experience behind the method
Elemental Protection brings more than three decades of experience in emergency response, planning, and training, gained in settings where a plan that fails is not an option.
- Nuclear plant emergency response
- Experience running security, fire protection, and medical response at a commercial nuclear power plant, including training and managing an emergency response organization of more than 900 people and keeping its emergency operations facilities ready.
- Fire, rescue, and hazardous materials
- Experience in fire brigade and fire department leadership, hazardous materials response, and urban search and rescue, with hands-on response to fires, chemical releases, medical calls, and mass-casualty events.
- Nuclear, biological, and chemical threats
- Experience standing up a county anti-terrorism task force, advising on response to nuclear threats, and training designated hospitals in decontamination and safe handling.
- Incident management training
- Experience building and delivering classroom and practical National Incident Management System (NIMS) training for police, fire, and medical response teams alongside county emergency management, and writing and evaluating the scenarios used to test those teams.
- Plans for public agencies
- Experience writing comprehensive emergency management plans and hazard mitigation plans for municipalities, state and federal agencies, and emergency management organizations, and training their people to use them.
- Continuity for businesses
- Since 2004, we have built continuity of operations, business continuity, and emergency management plans for businesses, using a maturity model we developed to compare where an organization is with where it needs to be. Our all-hazards training covers fire, flood, hurricane, pandemic, active shooter, terrorism, and cyber incidents.
Certifications within our organization include Firefighter I and II, Fire Officer, HazMat Incident Commander, Certified Police Officer, NIMS Instructor, and FEMA incident command courses IS-100 through IS-400, IS-700, and IS-703.
Who we work with
The 20 elements apply to any organization with people to protect and work that has to continue. What changes is the detail: who you serve, what regulates you, and what you cannot afford to lose.
- Businesses of every size
- Nonprofits and human-services providers
- K-12 schools
- Colleges and universities
- Government emergency management
- Fire departments
- Law enforcement agencies
Find out where you stand
The readiness assessment walks through all 20 elements and gives you an action plan. It is free, and it is yours to keep whether or not you work with us.
Talk to us
Tell us a little about your organization and what prompted the question. We will get back to you directly.