5 Critical Steps To Create an Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) At Your School

Step 5: Develop EOP Goals and Objectives

Goals are general statements that indicate desired outcomes in response to previously-defined threats. The planning team should develop at least three goals for addressing each threat or hazard. Those three goals should indicate the desired outcome for (1) before, (2) during and (3) after the threat or hazard.

Objectives are specific, measurable actions that are necessary to achieve the goals. Often, planners will need to identify multiple objectives in support of a single goal.

After the team has finished compiling the objectives for the prioritized threats and hazards, it will find that certain critical “functions”, or activities, apply to more than one threat or hazard. Examples of these cross-cutting functions include evacuating, providing medical care, and accounting for all students, staff, and guests. The planning team should develop there goals for each function indicating the desired outcome for before, during and after the function has been executed.

Check out an examples for goals, objectives and functions in the picture above.