Incident Planning, Response, and Recovery Manual The George Washington University Campuses, Graduate Education Centers, and Strategic Partners

Purpose and Context The Plan >> We must prepare the university to be able to respond to, and recover from, any incident to achieve these objectives: Maximize survival, Minimize injuries and loss, Preserve or restore the academic environment and its essential support structures, Ensure the continuous conduct of our critical functions, and Sustain our vital interests. Success will require a sense of these objectives to provide direction and context for our efforts. The following sections should help provide that sense. Contingency planning provides specific procedural responsibility, while allowing the flexibility to deal with unique or changing conditions. The purpose of this plan is to establish procedures and priorities to achieve our objectives. To enable our efforts we must concurrently attend to the maintenance of minimum and essential operations during and after an incident. This manual establishes operational procedures and expectations regarding internal and external communications intended to better manage any situation. In any post-incident assessment, the greatest benefits of this plan should be recognized to have been as much from the planning and preparation process as they are from the plan’s detailed implementation. In reviewing this plan, remember that what happens in the initial phases of an incident at The George Washington University can affect the institution for decades to come. NEXT: Priorities >> Complete Table of Contents

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