Employees must be trained in the following areas to effectively direct the shelter-in-place of transient populations:
- The location and capacity of all areas of refuge inside the facility, which must be identified before any incident happens.
- Proper operation of escalators and elevators to insure that guests with special needs are cared for.
- Roles and responsibilities for all staff members.
- Communications to other staff--how to use radios, etc., with whom they are to communicate, and what information they must convey.
- Communications to visitors--what message they need to communicate to visitors and how that message should be delivered
Managers of facilities with residential populations must train their residents how to properly SIP within their own apartment.