House of Worship
Church, synagogue, mosque, temple, gurdwara
Emphasized here
- Active Shooter
- Missing Child
- Civil Disturbance
On top of the four every plan carries, whatever your building is.
Start your planIf writing an emergency plan has always felt out of reach, this was built for you. Answer plain-language questions and Emergency Safety Planning writes your FEMA-aligned emergency operations plan in an afternoon, not eighteen months — then turns every hazard into steps your people can follow and calls your whole response team when it matters.
Plan. Practice. Respond.
Built on the standards your county emergency manager already uses
Schools, workplaces, houses of worship, nonprofits, clinics, and civic buildings. The federal planning structure is the same for all of them — CPG-101, NIMS, ICS — so the only real difference is vocabulary, and the plan speaks yours.
Church, synagogue, mosque, temple, gurdwara
Emphasized here
On top of the four every plan carries, whatever your building is.
Start your planK-12, preschool, college, training center
Emphasized here
On top of the four every plan carries, whatever your building is.
Start your planOffice, retail, warehouse, manufacturing
Emphasized here
On top of the four every plan carries, whatever your building is.
Start your planShelter, food bank, youth program, community center
Emphasized here
On top of the four every plan carries, whatever your building is.
Start your planMedical office, dental, senior living, day program
Emphasized here
On top of the four every plan carries, whatever your building is.
Start your planCity hall, library, recreation center, public works
Emphasized here
On top of the four every plan carries, whatever your building is.
Start your planAny organization responsible for people in a building gets the same plan. Tell us what you call your people and your main room, and the document reads like you wrote it.
None of this is negligence. It is what happens when preparedness is a document instead of a practice, and when the people responsible for it are also running everything else.
It is on a shelf behind the front desk at a middle school. A consultant wrote it in 2014, before the annex was built and before the door codes changed. Not one teacher who will be in a hallway on Tuesday has opened it, and the two people who know it exists are not sure who has the key to that office.
At a 900-person distribution center, the named evacuation lead moved to Arizona and the shift nurse retired. The call tree still rings three numbers that belong to nobody, and nobody wants to be the one to raise it at the quarterly safety meeting.
The church meant to. It has been on the agenda four times. Fire drills are supposed to happen twice a year, lockdown once, and a full-scale exercise every three years — and the last one anybody remembers was before the building expansion.
An AI interview sits down with whoever knows the building best — a facilities lead, an office manager, a principal, a deacon — and asks its way through a FEMA CPG-101 aligned Emergency Operations Plan. No committee cycle, no blank template, no eleven-month wait for a consultant’s draft.
Occupancy, exits, who holds keys, where the AEDs live, which rooms have no windows. Plain questions, no jargon, no forms to download.
Tell it you are a school, a clinic, a plant, or a congregation and every question, seat, and annex title changes to match. Annex I is Student Supervision at a school and Children’s Ministry at a church — same federal structure, your words.
The interview drafts. A human reviews, edits, and signs. The plan carries your leadership’s signature because it is your plan.
The Basic Plan, Annexes A through N, and a COOP — exported as a print-ready PDF for your insurer and your county emergency manager.
Plan sections
Prose is not something a substitute teacher, a shift supervisor, or a nineteen-year-old volunteer can run in the moment. Emergency Safety Planning renders every hazard in your plan as a sequence — who does what, in what order, by when — drawn from your own annexes and your own ICS chart.
Switch the sector below and watch the steps hold while the words change. The order is federal doctrine; the vocabulary is yours. Anyone on your team can pull a workflow on a phone, in the room, and you can print them for the go-bag too.
Objective — Everyone out, doors closed behind them, and a head count that matches the roster.
Only if you can do it without entering the fire area yourself.
Pulling the alarm is not the same as calling. Do both.
“Evacuate the building now using your nearest exit. Leave your belongings. Do not use the elevators.”
Voice + SMS to Incident Commander, Operations Chief, Safety Officer, Student Supervision Lead
A closed door buys minutes. Do not lock them; responders need access.
Youngest rooms first. Staff carry the roster out, not the sign-in sheet.
Restrooms, the gymnasium, mechanical rooms, storage. Mark each door as cleared.
By room and by group. Report anyone missing to the Principal acting as Incident Commander.
Only the fire department authorizes re-entry. Not the alarm panel, not staff.
This is the part a binder can never do. Declare an incident and an AI voice agent calls and texts your whole response team, reads them the situation and the first action for their seat, and records who picked up — while you are still walking down the hall.
The fan-out walks your ICS chart in order. If a seat does not answer, the next person on that bench is dialled without anyone having to notice.
Each channel degrades on its own. A carrier outage costs you texts, never the activation.
Every call, acknowledgement, and step is timestamped. Afterwards you have a record for your insurer, your board, and your own debrief.
Drills use exactly the same machinery, which is the only way a drill is worth running. Every drill call opens and closes with “This is a drill.”
Incident timeline
The FEMA hazard set, scored for your building and your county rather than copied from a template. Four are mandatory in every plan we write, no matter what your risk assessment says — and your sector pushes a few more up the list, which is why a clinic and a warehouse end up with different drafting orders from the same catalog.
Damaging wind, hail, or lightning with the building occupied.
Warning issued or funnel sighted with the building occupied.
Named storm on track; days of warning but a large operational lift.
Rising water threatening the site, parking, or access roads.
Snow, ice storm, or blizzard making travel and egress unsafe.
Outbreak or public-health emergency thinning the building for weeks.
Heat emergency, often paired with HVAC or power failure.
Armed attacker on site. Run, Hide, Fight. Every second counts.
Targeted attack against the people here or the building itself.
Protest or disruption at the property line or inside the building.
Threat received by phone, mail, or online. Do not use radios nearby.
Threat or assault involving staff, volunteers, or a domestic dispute.
Unattended or unexpected item found on site.
A child or dependent person is unaccounted for. Lock the site down.
Smoke or flame anywhere on site. R.A.C.E. and evacuate.
Cardiac arrest, fall, or overdose. The most likely activation you will ever run.
Bus, shuttle, or delivery vehicle crash involving our people or our grounds.
Loss of power, water, or HVAC with the building occupied.
Ransomware, payment fraud, or a breach of personal records.
Release on site or nearby — gas leak, chemical spill, highway incident.
Roof, balcony, or floor compromise. Older buildings carry real risk.
This is the CPG-101 outline your county emergency manager, your insurer, and your accreditor already recognize — the same outline whether the building is a school, a plant, a clinic, or a sanctuary. Nothing is padding: every section exists because someone will need it in a hallway one day.
Emergency Operations Plan
Riverbend Middle School
Effective March 2026 · Revision 3
Signed by your leadership, your board, and your safety coordinator. The Record of Changes maintains itself.
Who this plan belongs to, who owns it, and when it was last reviewed.
Everyone who must hold a copy, including your law enforcement and fire liaisons.
The framework for protecting life, property, and mission continuity.
Who the plan covers and which gatherings it applies to.
Your building, your attendance, and the population you are responsible for.
The threats you have actually scored, not a generic list.
How the plan runs under NIMS and ICS, and in what priority order.
Named people in named seats, with alternates who can actually show up.
The buildings this plan covers, what you decide here, and what each site decides for itself.
Who has authority, in what order, and when command is shared with responding agencies.
Primary, secondary, and tertiary channels — plus your emergency codes.
The codes, policies, and agreements this plan is actually written against.
Triggers, routes, assembly areas, and how you prove everyone is out.
When staying inside is safer than leaving, and exactly where people go.
Announcing, securing, and holding until law enforcement clears you.
Run, Hide, Fight — plus reunification and crisis counseling afterward.
R.A.C.E., extinguisher program, and inspection cadence.
Your medical response team, your AED locations, and who meets EMS.
Where people go for a tornado, and which spaces you must avoid.
The caller checklist, who gets notified, and the no-radio rule.
Rosters, head counts, and releasing a child or dependent person only to an approved guardian.
Ransomware, payment fraud, and personal data breach response.
Normal-day access control and what changes at elevated threat.
The four phases from life safety through long-term recovery.
Where families are sent, how you prove who they are, and how a child leaves with the right adult.
Everyone who cannot self-evacuate, self-shelter, or hear the announcement — and the named person who helps them.
Essential functions and where you operate if the building is unusable.
Annual required training and recommended leadership coursework.
Drill cadence, and the evaluation that turns a drill into a corrected weakness.
Safety equipment and emergency supplies, with locations and expiry dates.
Every revision, who approved it, and when — plus the named owner who keeps this plan alive.
Signatures from leadership, the board, and your coordinator.
A blank After Action Report with the directions, to copy after any incident or exercise.
A plan approved in March and never touched again is a plan that expires quietly. Emergency Safety Planning keeps score: the drills you owe, the training that lapsed, the AED pads with a date on them, and the seats with nobody behind them.
Readiness score
One number your board can read in a second, and four lists that tell you exactly what would move it. Amber is a nudge, never an alarm.
Fire Drill · Twice per year · Evacuation Drill · Annual · Lockdown Drill · Annual · Tabletop Exercise · Annual · Full-Scale Exercise · Every 3 years
NIMS IS-100 · NIMS IS-700 · CPR/AED · Active Threat Awareness · Fire Safety
Every tier includes the complete plan and every workflow. Higher tiers add buildings, activation minutes, and drill analytics — never the parts that keep people safe.
Up to 60 people on site
For the daycare, the storefront congregation, and the office that has been meaning to write one for years.
Start your planUp to 300 people on site
One building, one plan, one team that finally knows what to do.
Start your planEverything in Starter, plus
Per building · more than one roof
A campus, a plant, or a district: every building gets its own plan and its own team, and all of them roll up to one desk.
Start your planEverything in Single Site, for every building, plus
Campuses, districts, chains, and agencies
An airport, a hospital system, a stadium: we come out, walk the site, and write it with you.
Get a quoteEverything in Multi-Site, plus
How Multi-Site adds up. $139 a month for each building, minimum two. A two-building campus is $278 a month against $338 for two Single Site plans; four buildings are $556. Each building gets its own plan, its own ICS chart and its own call tree, and you get one page showing where all of them stand.
An honest note about activation. Phone calls and text messages cost real money, so activation minutes are metered. Starter writes, prints and exports your plan but does not place calls; from Single Site up, every plan includes enough for regular drills and the incidents an organization your size actually has, and beyond that you are billed at our carrier cost with no markup. We would much rather you drill often than ration minutes.
More than 300 people in one building. Single Site is sized for 300 people on site at the busiest hour. A distribution center, a plant, or a large sanctuary can go past that without adding a building — so add people instead. Each block of up to 500 additional people is $79 a month, up to 2,000 people on site, and every block adds 150 activation minutes a year. A 1,000-person site is $327 a month. Past 2,000 people, or a site with many separate spaces, is a Network conversation: we come out, walk the site, and quote it properly.
If yours is not here, ask it. We would rather answer plainly than have you guess.
Sit down with whoever knows the building best. By the end of the day you will have a real plan, real workflows, and a team that can be reached in seconds. Not a binder. A light left on.
No credit card to start. Export your plan at any time, even if you leave us.