LIMT-38_French: Airport Terror Attack

Airport terror attacks have the potential to cause mass casualties, and can easily overwhelm the capacity of the organization to respond to and manage the event. Where these occur in less-developed or disaster-struck international locations, complexity can be very significant, as inadequate or overwhelmed local emergency medical services and insecurity compound the challenges of response and management. Airport terror attacks present a significant challenge to an organization’s fundamental resilience, requiring the activation of the full scope of crisis response personnel and resources, the close coordination of organizational and local incident management teams, accurate and timely passage of information and interaction with emergency responders. All of this must be achieved in the face of an event that will place individuals and teams under acute emotional stress, dealing with an event that may have left close colleagues dead or seriously injured.