We recommend to clients that if they evacuate all or part of the building, then they should choose rally points that are at least 300 feet from the building and educate the workforce about them in advance. We also advise that they stay away from parking lots as rally points because anyone who pays attention to the news knows that in this day and age, the favorite delivery method for an is a vehicle.

How do you avoid panic? In the real-life incidents I have been involved in, I have never had anything that even remotely bordered on panic. Actually, the opposite is true. Most of the time the real problem is getting people to take the . Getting people to actually leave the building or, for that matter, getting them to stay out of the building if a search is under way, is more of a problem than panic.