This course provides a step-by-step approach to the development of a comprehensive emergency/disaster/crisis management plan for organizations (e.g. manufacturing companies, corporate officers, retailers, utilities, government agencies, or any organization where people work or gather). By analyzing how organizations prepare for, respond to, and recover from an emergency/crisis (e.g., severe winter storm) or more localized (e.g., chemical spill, building fire), this course emphasizes collaborative processes, applied methodologies used to plan and recover systems and processes when faced with various types of disaster and crisis recovery scenarios that impact communities, businesses and organizations as they seek to continue their operations. Finally, the course will emphasize how disaster preparedness directly correlates to the ability to continue organizational operations.