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Traditionally, emergency response at sporting venues has been focused on first aid and has been overseen by security, safety or operations personnel. Each of these professional disciplines has seen tremendous advances within its own realm, making it difficult to keep abreast of the rapid changes, emerging standards and trends in emergency response. As a result, disciplines of facility operations, security and emergency response often become isolated rather then integrated into a seamless system. Now, more then ever, venues need a truly integrated operations system that links these disciplines together.

Medical Sports Group believes that despite the best security practices, critical medical and emergency incidents will occur at mass gathering events. When they do, there is only one thing to do:

DEAL WITH IT.

How you deal with it effectively controls and contains the consequences of an incident on your patrons, your staff and your facility.

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UNDERSTANDING THE EMERGENCY PLANNING PROCESS

The most effective emergency preparedness efforts at sporting venues engage all stadium personnel as part of a system that extends through the local, state and federal response levels.  In order to create this system, venue managers and the response community must work together to develop plans and procedures based on an all-hazards approach, taking into consideration the entire range of possible events and consequences.  It is important for venue managers and the response community alike to understand the planning process in its entirety.

The emergency planning cycle consists of a four step process that continually replicates itself in a cycle.  These four steps areas...

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Preferred Links
International Association of Fire Chiefs International Association of Assembly Managers
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention NIMS Integration Center
American College of Emergency Physicians CBS News Disaster Links
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration DHS Office of Grants and Training
 

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