About
We plan for the day you hope never comes.
Our approach
We don’t sell binders. We build plans your team will actually open, understand, and use — grounded in the standards that govern your sector and tested until they hold.
What we do
Practice areas
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Preparedness & readiness
Readiness built and maintained as a program, not a document.
We establish what your organization can actually do today, then close the distance to what it needs to be able to do. That means naming who acts in the first ten minutes, what they reach for, and where the plan lives when the network is down — then keeping it current on a schedule as staffing, sites, and operations change, rather than rediscovering the gaps during an incident.
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Risk & hazard analysis
The hazards you face, ranked by likelihood and consequence.
Federal and state hazard data for your location is joined to your own incident history and operating profile. Each hazard is scored for how likely it is and what it would cost in life safety, operations, and assets, with the basis written down. The result is a ranking that sends preparedness effort where the exposure actually is — and that holds up when an insurer or auditor asks how you arrived at it.
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Emergency operations planning
Plans developed for your hazards, staffing, and geography.
The plan is built around how an incident actually unfolds on your night shift, in your season, at your distances: a base plan covering purpose, scope, activation and authority; functional annexes for evacuation, sheltering, communications, accountability and continuity; and hazard annexes for the threats that ranked highest in your assessment. What already works is referenced in place and given order of precedence, not rewritten.
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Command & authorization
Authority, succession, and activation settled in advance.
The most consequential question in an emergency is who decides. Your leadership settles it in a room beforehand — who may activate the plan and under what conditions, the order in which command passes through every shift and absence, and who owns each decision before it is needed: evacuation, closure, notification, resource commitment. Every position is assigned to a named role with a designated backup, sized to the staff you actually have.
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Training & exercise
Instruction and validation exercises against your own plan.
Training runs at every level — from what every employee needs regardless of role, through incident command instruction for the people who will run the response, taught against your plan rather than generic slides. Then it is tested: discussion-based tabletops through full-staff drills, built to federal exercise and evaluation doctrine. What the exercise finds is corrected before the plan is adopted, and the after-action findings feed the next revision.
Background
Background & experience
State emergency management
Federal programs
Consulting to FEMA
Public agencies & districts
Private & institutional clients
Brent Escoubas, CSP
Certified Safety Professional
More than 25 years in risk management and safety leadership across insurance carriers, brokerages, and complex multi-site operations. His background includes executive risk leadership at a global insurer, directing risk control consulting for a large public university system, and leading risk control for clients with facilities across Western wildfire country. He has collaborated with Cal/OSHA on injury prevention program templates and co-developed client specific mobile safety and evacuation applications. Certified Safety Professional, B.S. Environmental Health, CPTED advanced certificate, professional wildland firefighter training, OSHA 30, NFPA 70E.
Jed Fiato, MPP
Emergency management practice
Jed works across the operational and doctrinal sides of emergency management, with more than fifteen years of professional experience and a client history spanning multiple federal agencies. At the state level he supported New Hampshire Homeland Security and Emergency Management on long-term community recovery, ran statewide CERT and VOAD coordination, and directed disaster volunteer operations during activations and large-scale relief efforts. At FEMA he served as a preparedness subject matter expert across the Individual and Community Preparedness Division and as a Regional Preparedness Liaison in Region 1, advising on emergency operations planning, continuity of operations, NIMS and ICS, and hazard mitigation and risk analysis. He has designed and instructed a range of FEMA preparedness trainings delivered nationwide, and built a resilience training program later adopted across multiple FEMA regions.
Who we have worked with
FEMA · a global specialty insurer · a large public university system · Cal/OSHA collaboration · a major California wine producer
E4 CONSULTING
Organizational resilience and emergency preparedness
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