NFPA 1600 - Standard on Continuity, Emergency, and Crisis Management 6.8.5: A situation analysis assessing casualties, damage, disruption, information, contamination, reputation and resource needs to decide plan activation

What does 6.8.5 require?

To decide whether to activate its emergency response, continuity, crisis management or crisis communications plans, the entity's procedures are required to include a situation analysis that assesses: casualties and how many personnel are available; physical damage to property; disruption of operations; effects on digital information and vital records; environmental contamination, actual or possible; effects, actual or possible, on brand, reputation and market share, on the capacity to operate or on stakeholder relationships; and the resources response, continuity and recovery will need.