PREPAREDNESS, PREVENTION AND RESPONSE FOR HIGH-CONSEQUENCE EVENTS
Our team is built around a simple idea: the worst time to decide who is in charge, who to call, what to preserve, what to say, and how to respond to regulators is after the event has already occurred. In a company’s greatest moment of need, confusion is costly. Delay is costly. The wrong communication, the wrong investigation structure, or the wrong first step can turn a serious incident into an existential threat.
We help clients prevent crises where possible, recognize warning signs earlier, build practical response systems, and train leadership teams to act decisively when the pressure is highest. We can provide crisis plans, escalation protocols, incident response playbooks, allegation oversight systems, executive training, tabletop exercises, regulatory response planning, litigation readiness, and communications discipline.
Why Choose Us
- Prevention-first approach. We help clients identify warning signs, strengthen reporting channels, investigate near misses and allegations, and implement governance before incidents escalate.
- Crisis-tested legal judgment. Our team guides leadership through fatalities and serious injuries, industrial accidents, cyber events, workplace violence, government investigations, product and safety crises, and high-visibility media events.
- Practical operational tools. We develop escalation trees, incident logs, communications templates, crisis go-bags, after-action review protocols and corrective-action tracking systems.
- Board and executive visibility. We help convert crisis lessons into governance improvements, training roadmaps and recurring oversight.
We are Ideally Positioned to Assist Clients Before, During and After a Crisis
We help clients move from reactive crisis response to disciplined readiness and resilient operations.
- Confidential crisis-readiness assessments and gap analyses
- Facility walk-throughs, leadership interviews and response-team evaluations
- Crisis Management Team design, roles, call trees and escalation matrices
- Allegation Oversight Committee to triage allegations, oversee investigations, assign accountability, track corrective actions, and report trends to leadership
- Incident response plans for serious injuries, cyber events, workplace violence, environmental releases and government investigations
High-Consequence Events We Help Clients Prevent and Manage
- Workplace fatalities or catastrophic injuries
- Workplace violence, active threats and security incidents
- Cybersecurity breaches, ransomware and OT/ICS disruptions
- Environmental or chemical releases
- Unannounced government inspections, raids or subpoenas
- Product safety issues, recalls and multi-state incidents
- Negative media, viral social content and reputational events
- Facility shutdowns, business interruption and continuity failures
Core Deliverables
- Written readiness assessment report
- Top-risk gap analysis
- Crisis team structure and activation protocol
- Government visit protocol
- Media Holding Statements
- 30/60/90-day improvement roadmap
- Investigation and privilege protocols
- Response training tailored to client risk profile
- Allegation Oversight Committee framework
The value is not just having a binder on the shelf. The value is knowing, in the moment that matters most, exactly what to do and exactly who to call. It is having a team already familiar with your business, your risks, your people, and your decision-makers before the emergency happens. Butler Snow helps clients prepare before a crisis, respond decisively when one occurs, and build stronger systems afterward.