Core Services

Navigate requirements. Reduce risk. Keep projects and operations moving.

Fire and life safety requirements can affect construction, facility operations, occupancy, insurance, emergency response, and overall organizational risk.

Summit Response Group helps clients understand applicable requirements, identify compliance concerns, document existing conditions, coordinate with stakeholders, and develop a clear path toward resolution.

Fire Code Consulting

Services may include:

• Applicable fire code and standard research

• Code interpretation and compliance support

• Documentation of existing conditions

• Review of fire and life safety concerns

• Development of compliance strategies

• Technical findings and written reports

• Corrective-action planning

• Support during code-related project disputes

Facility Fire & Life Safety Assessments

We evaluate facilities to identify fire and life safety concerns before they become larger operational, regulatory, or liability issues.

Assessments may include:

• Means of egress

• Exit access and exit discharge

• Emergency lighting

• Exit signage

• Portable fire extinguishers

• Fire department access

• Fire protection system documentation

• Fire prevention practices

• Hazardous-material considerations

• Emergency procedures

• Life safety documentation

• General fire-code readiness

Assessments are designed to provide clients with prioritized findings and practical corrective actions.

Pre-Inspection Readiness

Prepare before an AHJ, insurer, corporate auditor, or regulatory inspection.

Summit can review the facility, documentation, procedures, and known concerns to identify issues that should be addressed before the formal inspection occurs.

Construction & Development Support

Fire and life safety issues can delay projects when requirements, design intent, field conditions, and AHJ expectations do not align.

Summit can assist with:

• New construction and renovation projects

• Fire department access concerns

• Fire-flow and water-supply coordination

• Field-condition documentation

• Code research

• Stakeholder meetings

• AHJ coordination

• Plan-review support

• Corrective-action development

Municipal Fire Marshal & Code Support

Smaller municipalities may need additional technical or administrative support without adding a full-time position.

Potential services include:

• Fire-code consulting

• Inspection-program support

• Plan-review coordination

• Developer communication

• Documentation and reporting

• Corrective-action tracking

• Fire prevention program development

• Specialized project review

Fire Protection Engineering Coordination

When a project requires professional engineering analysis, calculations, system design, performance-based solutions, or sealed technical documents, Summit Response Group coordinates those needs through qualified fire protection engineering partners.

Summit can remain involved as the client-facing consultant, helping connect operational concerns, code requirements, AHJ expectations, and engineering recommendations.

Build plans that work when normal operations stop.

Emergency plans must be more than documents stored in a binder or shared drive.

Summit Response Group develops practical emergency-management programs that establish responsibilities, decision-making processes, communications, protective actions, and coordination before an incident occurs.

Emergency Operations Planning

Services may include:

• Emergency operations plans

• Emergency action plans

• Site-specific emergency procedures

• Crisis-management plans

• Emergency notification procedures

• Evacuation planning

• Shelter-in-place planning

• Severe-weather procedures

• Medical emergency procedures

• Fire emergency procedures

• Utility-loss procedures

• Workplace violence planning

• Cyber-disruption operational procedures

Emergency Management Program Development

For organizations building or improving an emergency-management capability, Summit can help establish:

• Program governance

• Roles and responsibilities

• Emergency-management policies

• Incident-management structures

• Emergency coordinator responsibilities

• Emergency operations center procedures

• Internal and external communications

• Mutual-aid coordination

• Plan maintenance cycles

• Exercise programs

• Corrective-action processes

Emergency Operations Center Support

Summit can help organizations establish or improve an Emergency Operations Center or crisis-coordination structure.

Services may include:

• EOC activation criteria

• Position responsibilities

• Situation reporting

• Executive briefings

• Incident tracking

• Decision logs

• Resource coordination

• Operational checklists

• Communications procedures

• Recovery transition procedures

BUSINESS CONTINUITY

Protect critical operations before disruption becomes a crisis.

Emergency response protects people.

Business continuity protects the organization’s ability to continue delivering essential products, services, and functions.

Summit Response Group helps organizations identify critical operations, understand dependencies, evaluate vulnerabilities, and build practical continuity and recovery strategies.

Business Continuity Planning

Services may include:

• Business continuity plans

• Continuity of operations plans

• Department-level continuity procedures

• Critical-function identification

• Alternate operating strategies

• Staffing continuity

• Facility-loss planning

• Technology disruption planning

• Supply-chain considerations

• Vendor dependency planning

• Recovery priorities

• Reconstitution planning

Business Impact Analysis

A Business Impact Analysis helps determine which functions are truly critical and what happens when they become unavailable.

Summit can assist organizations in evaluating:

• Critical business functions

• Maximum tolerable downtime

• Recovery priorities

• Staffing dependencies

• Technology dependencies

• Facility dependencies

• Vendors and suppliers

• Communications requirements

• Financial impacts

• Operational impacts

• Regulatory impacts

Continuity Readiness Assessments

For organizations with existing plans, Summit can evaluate whether the program is current, practical, and capable of supporting real-world disruption.

Findings can be organized into:

• Immediate priorities

• Short-term corrective actions

• Long-term resilience improvements

Prepare for hazards that require specialized planning.

Hazardous materials and chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear incidents can rapidly overwhelm organizations that have not planned beyond basic regulatory documentation.

Summit Response Group helps facilities and leadership teams understand their exposure, identify capability gaps, and develop practical response strategies.

Hazmat Risk & Readiness Assessments

Potential assessment areas include:

• Hazardous-material inventories

• Storage and handling practices

• Emergency procedures

• Internal response capabilities

• External responder capabilities

• Detection and monitoring considerations

• Decontamination capability

• PPE considerations

• Evacuation and shelter strategies

• Mutual-aid coordination

• Emergency communications

• Recovery considerations

CBRN Preparedness

CBRN consulting may include:

• CBRN vulnerability assessments

• High-consequence threat planning

• Chemical threat preparedness

• Biological incident preparedness

• Radiological emergency planning

• Suspicious-substance procedures

• Protective-action planning

• Executive-level CBRN briefings

• Continuity considerations for CBRN incidents

• Response capability evaluations

Decontamination & Protective-Action Planning

Summit can assist organizations with:

• Decontamination concepts

• Facility decontamination planning

• Protective-action procedures

• Shelter-in-place decisions

• Evacuation decision-making

• Personnel accountability

• Contamination-control concepts

• Coordination with public-safety agencies

Facility-to-Responder Coordination

One of the most important parts of Hazmat preparedness is understanding how facility personnel and outside responders will work together.

Summit can help define:

• Initial facility actions

• Emergency notification

• Hazard information transfer

• Site access

• Command relationships

• Facility representative responsibilities

• Responder support requirements

• Recovery and reentry procedures

Turn emergency responsibilities into actionable procedures.

Emergency response plans should clearly explain what needs to happen, who has authority, how decisions are made, and when to call in outside resources.

Summit develops customized response procedures based on the actual facility, organization, hazards, staffing, and external response capabilities.

Planning can address:

• Fire

• Medical emergency

• Hazardous-material release

• Severe weather

• Power failure

• Utility loss

• Cyber disruption

• Workplace violence

• Active aggressor

• Facility evacuation

• Shelter in place

• Mass notification

• Fatality or serious injury

• Supply-chain disruption

• Transportation incidents

• Security events

• Other site-specific risks

TABLETOP EXERCISES

Test the plan before the emergency tests it for you.

Tabletop exercises give organizations an opportunity to evaluate plans, responsibilities, communication, coordination, and decision-making in a controlled environment.

Summit designs and facilitates exercises around the client’s actual risks and objectives.

Exercise Services

Programs may include:

• Exercise objectives

• Scenario development

• Situation manuals

• Facilitator guides

• Participant materials

• Scenario injects

• Executive decision points

• Facilitated discussion

• Hotwash

• After-action reporting

• Improvement planning

• Corrective-action tracking

Exercise Topics

Exercises may address:

• Fire

• Hazardous-material release

• CBRN incident

• Severe weather

• Extended power outage

• Cyberattack

• Facility evacuation

• Workplace violence

• Supply-chain disruption

• Loss of utilities

• Fatality or serious workplace injury

• Mass-casualty incident

• Business interruption

• Overseas or multi-site disruption

Exercises may be developed for operational personnel, executives, emergency teams, or a combination of participants.

EVENT EMERGENCY PLANNING

Plan for the event—and what happens when something goes wrong.

Large gatherings, outdoor events, corporate functions, sporting events, festivals, and public events create unique emergency-management challenges.

Summit focuses specifically on the safety, preparedness, and continuity components of events.

Services may include:

• Event emergency action plans

• Incident action plans

• Emergency communications

• Severe-weather planning

• Evacuation planning

• Shelter procedures

• Medical response coordination

• Fire and life safety considerations

• Public-safety coordination

• Command structure development

• Emergency notification procedures

• Contingency planning

• After-action reviews

Weather Decision Support

Weather can quickly change the risk profile of an event or outdoor operation.

Through specialized partners, Summit can incorporate professional weather intelligence and monitoring into emergency-planning and decision-making processes.

Potential applications include:

• Lightning

• Severe thunderstorms

• High winds

• Extreme temperatures

• Flooding

• Winter weather

• Operational trigger points

• Event suspension or evacuation decisions

CRISIS LEADERSHIP

Strong plans still require people who can make decisions under pressure.

Crisis leadership is integrated into Summit’s emergency-management and continuity work because even the strongest technical plan can fail without clear leadership, communication, and decision-making.

Services may include:

• Executive crisis-management workshops

• Leadership under uncertainty

• Crisis decision-making

• Roles, responsibilities, and authorities

• Crisis communications

• Command-team alignment

• Trusted autonomy

• Leadership during operational disruption

• Post-incident leadership

• Facilitated executive exercises

Summit’s crisis-leadership work is designed for organizational leaders, managers, incident teams, and decision-makers, not as a general public-safety certification program.

ItemOne consulting relationship. Specialized expertise when needed.

Some projects require capabilities beyond Summit Response Group’s direct consulting scope.

We work with qualified partners who can provide specialized technical services while Summit helps coordinate the broader project and ensure the work supports the client’s operational objectives.

Partner capabilities may include:

Fire Protection Engineering

• Engineering analysis

• Fire protection system design

• Hydraulic calculations

• Performance-based solutions

• Alternate means and methods

• Technical plan review

• Sealed engineering documents

Weather Intelligence & Monitoring

• Professional forecasting

• Real-time weather monitoring

• Severe-weather alerting

• Event decision support

• Business-continuity weather intelligence

Specialized Planning & Technical Support

Additional specialists may be incorporated when needed based on project scope, location, hazards, regulatory requirements, or operational complexity.