The article discusses the status of crisis management in a comprehensive management system organizational unit (territory, community, company). For crisis management summarizes the objectives, principles, tasks of research, the specifics of the decision, specific tools, specialty of crisis planning, preparedness principles to solve critical situations and system of response management to critical situations. Based on research that shows the contents of operational crisis plan of the selected municipality with extended competences, which provides qualified response and protection of the population, and is object of engineers lecture at technical universities.