Before you can develop a security plan, you have to complete a risk assessment, which sounds complicated, but really comes down to taking a critical look at the organization and measuring the potential risks and threats.

The difficult part of the risk assessment is the knowledge to make a complete list of all the possible risks and then the ability to rank them as to the likelihood that your organization may experience them.

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By Jeffrey A. Hawkins

One of the biggest mistakes of any organization, be it Christian or secular, is that security and emergency planning is started without addressing how it will impact the organization’s “culture”.

The one phrase that police officers and other emergency service workers hear over and over again from victims of accidents and crimes is “I didn’t think it could ever happen to me” or “I thought this kind of thing happened in other places”.