This document provides an overview of emergency management planning. It discusses why planning is important, introduces common emergency management frameworks like ICS and NIMS, and outlines the key phases of emergency management - mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery - using a cooking analogy. For each phase, it describes important components like conducting hazard assessments and creating response plans for preparedness, enacting plans during response, and addressing business continuity for recovery. The document emphasizes that thorough planning pays off in an emergency and helps ensure life safety as well as business continuity. It also provides several resources for further information.