Critical Incident Preparedness Plan

The system of internal controls submitted by a gaming licensee in accordance with 205 CMR 138.02 shall include a detailed critical incident preparedness plan to enhance the prevention of, preparedness for, and response to critical incidents, including without limitation natural disasters, workplace violence, dangerous substance, and active shooter crisis incidents. This plan shall include a training component which is designed to enhance awareness of pre-incident indicators and describe actions to take to prevent and prepare for potential crisis incidents. This plan also shall include an action plan that describes the gaming establishment's preplanning and coordination for a series of activities and procedures involving the gaming licensee's management and security personnel; the commission on-site officials; the on-site responding Massachusetts State Police personnel; the responding local, county, state law enforcement personnel; EMS and other first responder personnel, all in response to potential or actual critical incidents. The gaming licensee shall review its crisis preparedness plan annually. The gaming licensee's submission shall be evaluated in terms of its adequacy to assure that reasonable preparation and steps have been taken to ensure public safety, inter-agencycrisis communication, tactical coordination, site facility identification and pre-staging, which as a whole, shall serve to maximize the protections afforded to the public, patrons, employees, law enforcement officers, and first responders and maximize the efficacy of first responder actions in emergent critical incident situations.