General emergency preparedness
Emergency preparedness needs to take into account the following:
Compatibility with related planning |
Are you or others in your planning group aware of plans that are related to your emergency management work? If such plans exist, what are the implications for your plans? Have you made contact with people in other organisations or jurisdictional areas who may be able to assist you in emergency management? |
Plan maintenance |
Who is responsible for keeping the emergency plan up to date? How often is it revised? Do people holding existing plans receive amendments? |
Training and education |
Who is responsible for the various training and education requirements of emergency workers and the public? Has a training needs analysis of emergency workers been performed? Are there competency standards against which the current competencies of emergency workers can be compared? |
Exercising |
How often are your plans to be exercised? Who is responsible? How are the lessons learnt from exercises to be incorporated into plans? Are multi-agency exercises run as well as single agency exercises? (See also Chapter 10 of the AEM: Community Emergency Planning Guide.) |
