Ch. 4 Preparedness Flashcards
Preparedness
seeks to improve the abilities of agencies and individuals to respond to the consequences of a disaster event once the disaster event has occurred.
What is an EOP and Its components?
is the playbook by which emergency management response operations are conducted. However, the development of an EOP is not just documentation of what will be done and by whom, but rather the cyclical process by which these factors are determined. There are select components that appear in almost all EOPs, having formed and standardized because they are the most logical presentation of the response and recovery needs of most jurisdictions. Operation Plan consists of three components
- The Base Plan
- The Functional Annexes
- The Hazard or Situational AnnexesPlanning both dictates and accounts for the equipment that must be purchased to treat the disaster consequences that are planned for and to carry out the tasks assigned. Planning also becomes the basis of training and exercise, and responders train to the capabilities laid out in the plan and rely upon the assumptions captured by the plan to determine those core competencies that are sought. And
Whole Community Concept
Whole Community is a means by which residents, emergency management practitioners, organizational and community leaders, and government officials can collectively understand and assess the needs of their respective communities and determine the best ways to organize and strengthen their assets, capacities, and interests.”
National Prevention Framework
*Evacuation Planning
*Emergency Planning for Access and Functional Needs Populations
*Preparedness Equipment
*Education and Training Programs- for staff
Public Preparedness Education
*Emergency Management Exercises
*Evaluation and Improvement
7 considerations for effective Evacuation Planning?
The DOT conducted a Gulf Coast Evacuation plan and discovered the following 7 considerations for effective planning.
- decision making and management
- Planning
- Public Communication
- Operations
- Housing, sheltering needs
- Mass evac training and exercises
- Special needs
Preparedness Equipment
Emergency management organizations rely upon an incredibly diverse range of equipment categories by which they are able to perform the response roles assigned to them. These categories of equipment include (among many others):
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Firefighting apparatuses
Communications systems
In the preparedness phase, consideration of equipment becomes very important, as it is during this phase that:
Equipment needs are identified
Equipment is purchased
Staff is trained in the use of the equipment required to meet anticipated response requirements.
Education and Training Programs
FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute has become the focus of emergency management professionalization, establishing the core competencies of emergency management professionals and developing a common understanding of what constituted an emergency management curriculum. The Regional Fire Training Academy also provides training for emergency management
what are Emergency Management Exercises? and the 4 four examples
EMA defines an exercise as “a controlled, scenario-driven, simulated experience designed to demonstrate and evaluate an organization’s capability to execute one or more assigned or implicit operational tasks or procedures as outlined in its contingency plan.” There four types of exercises identified by FEMA: Full Scale Partial Scale Functional Table Top
Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP),
created to provide guidance and standardization to the exercise efforts of emergency management organizations, and to develop a framework for evaluation. HSEEP compliance is required for grant eligibility.
Evaluation and Improvement
It is through evaluation and assessment that those responsible for response and recovery are best able to refine preparedness capabilities. There are several programs by which emergency management evaluation may be conducted. A select few of the more commonly-encountered include:
The Emergency Management Accreditation Program (EMAP)
The State Preparedness Report (SPR)
The Target Capabilities List (TCL)
The NIMS Compliance Assistance Support Tool (NIMSCAST)
Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
Business continuity planning (BCP) is the process by which businesses prepare for disasters by identifying the risks to their business processes, their facilities, their people, and their information, and take action to reduce that risk. BCP also includes identification and enactment of the processes by which businesses are able to continue to function during periods of disaster such that they are able to remain viable for the long term and so that the products and services that they provide the community and country remain available.
NP National Preparedness
NP was established on April 1, 2007 in order to oversee coordination and development of the strategies necessary to achieve these goals, and was established in order to provide preparedness policy and planning guidance, and to help build disaster response capabilities.
As a FEMA Directorate, NP has wide leverage to develop and institute preparedness programs that include training courses, national policy development and state/local policy guidance, and the planning and conduct of exercises. The requirements of a national-level preparedness effort are guided by the National Response Framework (NRF), which superseded the National Response Plan (NRP) in January of 2008. The NRF was released to establish a comprehensive, national, all-hazards approach to domestic incident response, and to provide clear guidance over the integration of community, state, tribal and federal response efforts.
HSPD 8 HELPED DEVELOP A NATIONAL DOMESTIC ALL HAZARDS PREPAREDNESS GOAL.
FEMA National Preparedness Directorate depicts planning as a five-step cycle (PETEE)
1) Plan
2) Organize and Equip
3) Train
4) Exercise
5) Evaluate and Improve
