Boy Scouts of America

Emergency Action Plan

SUMMARY

Many of us have had practice or training when it comes to deciding the best methods in dealing with an emergency. Far too often when those fight-or-flight situations arise, it’s difficult for us to recall everything we need to know. Luckily, there are written procedures with maps and guides on how to effectively address emergency situations, assuming they have been prepared and reviewed in advance at your office/event location.

GENERAL INFORMATION

An Emergency Action Plan (EAP) can be found at your camp and local council office, and it’s a good idea to develop one for your regular meeting place or campout location. As part of the program hazard analysis for your camp, activity-specific EAPs are most effective when they are developed, approved, and practiced on a regular basis.

Some major components of an EAP include:

  • Evacuation routes and escape plans with instructions that can be posted in designated areas throughout your local council, camp location, and meeting place
  • Maps indicating:
    — Emergency exits
    — Primary and secondary evacuation routes
    — Locations of fire extinguishers
    — Locations of fire alarm pull stations
    — Assembly points
  • Emergency contacts that include a hierarchy of:
    — Your designated Scout leaders and local council contacts
    — Local hospitals; fire, police, or sheriff’s offices; and reminders about calling 911 (or the appropriate emergency telephone number)
  • Scenario-specific response plans:
    — Sheltering in place against environmental threats such as chemical, biological, or radiological contaminants
    — Severe weather, including weather reports that are specific to your location and, if applicable, a mass notification system plan
    — Active shooter situations, with information on how to respond and where to go or stay, including:
    • Nearest facility exits
    • Stationary response
    • Close confines response
  • Others
    — Where to go in an emergency when you are on a hiking trail or camping
    — Site-specific information (locations and contact information) for outdoor adventure camps, day camps, council offices, etc.

RESOURCES

Bray Barnes

Director, Global Security Innovative
Strategies

Bray Barnes is a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, Silver
Beaver, Silver Antelope, Silver Buffalo, and Learning for Life Distinguished
Service Award. He received the Messengers of Peace Hero award from
the royal family of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and he’s a life member of
the 101st Airborne Association and Vietnam Veterans Association. Barnes
serves as a senior fellow for the Global Federation of Competitiveness
Councils, a nonpartisan network of corporate CEOs, university presidents, and
national laboratory directors. He has also served as a senior executive for the
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, leading the first-responder program
and has two U.S. presidential appointments

David Alexander

Managing Member Calje

David Alexander is a Baden-Powell Fellow, Summit Bechtel Reserve philanthropist, and recipient of the Silver Buffalo and Distinguished Eagle Scout Award. He is the founder of Caljet, one of the largest independent motor fuels terminals in the U.S. He has served the Arizona Petroleum Marketers Association, Teen Lifeline, and American Heart Association. A triathlete who has completed hundreds of races, Alexander has also mentored the women’s triathlon team at Arizona State University.

Glenn Adams

President, CEO & Managing Director
Stonetex Oil Corp.

Glenn Adams is a recipient of the Silver Beaver, Silver Antelope, Silver Buffalo, and Distinguished Eagle Scout Award. He is the former president of the National Eagle Scout Association and established the Glenn A. and Melinda W. Adams National Eagle Scout Service Project of the Year Award. He has more than 40 years of experience in the oil, gas, and energy fields, including serving as a president, owner, and CEO. Adams has also received multiple service awards from the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers.