This document outlines the six steps of the planning process: 1) form a collaborative planning team, 2) understand the situation, 3) determine goals and objectives, 4) identify courses of action, 5) prepare, review and approve the plan, and 6) implement and maintain the plan. It provides details on each step, such as ensuring planning teams are small enough to promote good working relationships, identifying threats and hazards, writing measurable objectives, developing courses of action, formatting the plan with sections, and exercising the plan through yearly meetings and site visits. The six step process aims to effectively plan and achieve educational aims through collaborative teamwork.

1. Planning
DIFFERENT LEVELS OF
PLANNING
This process the center will achieve the aims
and objectives of education
Is not an individual task, work as a team in order
to have an effective planning to reach the desired
results
SIX STEPS PLANNING PROCESS
Form a collaborative
planning team
Understand the
situation
Goals and
objectives
To identify
courses of action
Prepare review and
approve the plan
Implement and
maintain the plan

2. SIX STEPS
PLANNING PROCESS
FORM A
COLLABORATIVE
PLANNING TEAM
Generally,
planning for it would
involve the following:
Planning teams should be
small enough to
promote good working
relationships
Identification of a core planning team to
plan the event:
Formation of a common framework
Assignment of roles and responsibilities
Development of a regular schedule of
meetings to adequately plan the event

3. SIX STEPS
PLANNING PROCESS
UNDERSTAND
THE
SITUATION
This information can be extremely
useful to planning teams during the
hazard identification process.
The planning team members work
together to understand the situation
Identifying specific threats and hazards
Assessing risks
Prioritizing the threats and hazards that
are identified in your collaborative
emergency planning process
Information on historical events, and
past insurance exposures that have
impacted the campus
This can be accomplished by

4. SIX STEPS
PLANNING PROCESS
DETERMINE GOALS
AND
OBJECTIVES
Are broad statements that define
what personnel are to achieve:
Method may be unique in
comparison to what some members
Are specific, measureable
actions that help to achieve the goals
Defined for all the prioritized
threats and hazards
Objectives
Are
This
Goals

5. SIX STEPS
PLANNING PROCESS
PLAN DEVELOPMENT FOR
IDENTIFYING COURSES OF
ACTION
It should find a way to visually
depict the flow
Depict the scenario
Determine the amount of time available
to respond
Identify decision points
The plan must be accessible to everyone
involved in the planning process
Generally, such steps would be
Develop courses of action

6. SIX STEPS
PLANNING PROCESS
PREPARE, REVIEW, AND
APPROVE THE PLAN
This critical step in the planning process
involves formatting the plan
Writing the plan
Approving the plan
Sharing the plan
IHEs organize their EOP by three
major sections:
This format is similar to existing IHE plan
formats; however, some of the terminology,
goals, objectives, and specific function-based
annexes may vary
A Basic Plan section
A Functional Annexes section
A Threat- and Hazard-
Specific Annexes section

7. SIX STEPS
PLANNING PROCESS
IMPLEMENT AND
MAINTAIN THE PLAN
For the final step
Exercising the plan
Reviewing the plan
Revising the plan
To take before, during,
and after an emergency, available for
this purpose, including the following:
holding a yearly meeting to
educate all parties on the plan
Visiting evacuation sites
Posting key information
Maintaining the plan
An ideal way the planning team
The scenarios that will be tested
The types of exercises that will be utilized
in the process
The exercise timeline (multi-year period).