April 18, 2008
This newsletter is for public agencies, businesses,
non-governmental organizations, and other stakeholders involved or interested
in public-private partnerships for joint emergency preparedness, mitigation,
response, and recovery.
Michigan State University (MSU) produces the newsletter through the Critical Incident Protocol (CIP)-Community Facilitation Program under a grant awarded by the Training & Exercise Integration Division, Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. This newsletter provides ideas, suggestions, best practices, and lessons learned to establish critical incident protocols using public-private partnerships.
Please visit our website at www.cip.msu.edu for more information about the program.
Participating Communities in the CIP Program
The
CIP Program has been initiated in 37 communities in 22 states with over 2,800
participants establishing public-private
partnerships for joint management of critical incidents. We are looking to work
with other cities, counties and regions. Is there a location in the nation that
you think may be interested in developing a public-private partnership? If so,
please let us know.
Currently, we are working with the following
communities:
Florida:
Western Panhandle
Illinois: Lake-Cook Regional,
Libertyville
Indiana: Evansville
Kansas: Douglas
County
Maryland: Annapolis,
Carroll County, Rockville
Michigan: Marquette
County, Monroe, Oakland County
Missouri/Illinois: Gateway Citizen Corps Coalition, St. Louis
Montana:
Lewis & Clark County
Nevada: Clark
County
North Carolina: Buncombe County, Greensboro
Ohio:
Brooklyn
Pennsylvania:
Allentown, Bethlehem, Northampton County, Perkiomen Valley
Texas: Dallas
Utah:
Layton, Sandy City
Virginia: Arlington,
Richmond
Washington: Redmond
Wisconsin:
Brown County, Dane County, Eau
Claire County, Milwaukee, Racine County
CIP Program Activities
April 16, 2008:
Dallas, TX (Facilitating Tabletop Exercise)
April 18, 2008:
Live Response, National Terrorism Preparedness Institute
May 7, 2008:
May 8, 2008:
May 22, 2008:
May 28, 2008:
June 4, 2008:
June 11, 2008: Horry County, SC (Initiating the CIP Program)
June 12, 2008:
June 19, 2008:
Madison, WI (Train-the-trainer on CIP Program)
July 9, 2008:
July 10, 2008:
Welcome Arlington County, VA to the CIP Program
Please welcome
Arlington County to the CIP Program.
Located across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., Arlington County
is home to the Pentagon, a large, diverse business community, progressive,
historical residential neighborhoods, and a commonwealth of contemporary and
committed civic involvement.
The workshop on
April 1st began with various officials expressing their gratitude to
attendees for collaborating on joint crisis management before an audience of 96
community public and private sector stakeholders. Local, county, state, and federal agency
officials sat down with business executives, non-governmental leaders, and
others to work through crisis scenarios on risk assessments, using the Incident
Command System/Unified Command, and other tasks. The group finished the day with identifying
which issues were important to their organizations and how to enhance the
partnership through joint planning, training, and exercising. A long list of suggestions and practices was
compiled and will be used to develop an agenda for the next year.
The CIP staff
enjoyed working with these enthusiastic participants to better prepare for,
respond to, and recover from critical incidents.
Free Resource Guide for Protection of Critical Infrastructure
This 118 page
guide is easy to use, has numerous public and private sector resources, and was
developed by public and private sector professionals from 17 critical
infrastructure and key resource sectors.
It is not intended to be all-inclusive and was designed to provide
quick, comprehensive guidelines. The Critical Infrastructure Resource Guide
is provided by the American Society of Industrial Security (ASIS), the world’s
largest association of security professionals.
To download a copy, please go to the
ASIS website at http://www.asisonline.org. On the
main page, look for Hot Topics, then Critical Infrastructure and scroll down to
select the Critical Infrastructure Resource Guide.
Currently, the
ASIS Critical Infrastructure Working Group will be updating the resource guide
over the next couple of months.
Best Practices on Public-Private Partnerships –
Community Efforts
One community
which recently participated in the CIP Program identified its agenda for the
future. After the initial workshop where
several suggestions were presented and subsequent follow-up meetings to
redefine opportunities, they developed the following agenda:
Education
o Provide
education and support to local businesses through training and templates
o Increase
awareness of project activities
Community-Wide
Planning
o Involve private
sector in community-wide emergency and mitigation planning
o Develop a
template for integrating the business community into the Incident Command
System
o Assess the idea
of businesses assigned to the public sector Emergency Operations Center
o Analyze how
public policy should be changed to increase response and recovery effectiveness
o Share public
sector policies and plans with the private sector
Resource
Linkages
o Establish a resource
database
o Identify resource gaps and
priorities
o Develop private-to-private
and private-to-government Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) for resource
management
o Develop communication
systems and networks
Similar to other communities
which collaborate, they discovered that within the business
community there are various levels of emergency preparedness ranging from no critical
incident response plans to highly extensive business continuity and disaster
recovery processes. Additionally, the
group discussed how to minimize the number of meetings, use the Internet for
communication, place the project under the umbrella of an existing
organization, and how to ensure that the resource inventory becomes a “living
database”.
Best Practice / Access to Disaster Areas and
Credentialing
Recently, the
CIP staff presented at the Southern Gas Association’s Natural Disaster Emergency
Management Workshop on public/private partnerships for joint crisis management. Participants at the workshops came from
across the nation to learn some of the latest initiatives, share information
with other professionals, and increase their networking. There was a cross-representation of various
utility companies.
Following are
some of the topics of importance, and not surprisingly, these same issues are
being discussed by many organizations, agencies, businesses, and communities
around the nation. As you know, utility
companies respond to man-made and naturals disasters and critical incidents of
various size, complexity, and duration.
The topics included:
o Ensure family
preparedness while employees are responding to emergencies (are your first
responders’ families prepared, as well?).
o Create credentialing
for utility employees to be allowed to cross police, fire, and military lines
to enter disaster sites to repair and restore power.
o Some utility
employees were previously detained at roadblocks and not allowed to enter the
disaster area until company supervisors resolved the matter.
o Go back to the
basics and review company plans and procedures to ensure they are accurate,
current, and relevant.
o Adopt a
formalized risk assessment process to ensure the business mission and goals are
attained.
o How can the private
sector, such as utility companies and others assist in after-damage assessments
to ensure accurate information is shared between public and private sectors?
o Look to create
mutual aid assistance agreements between private-to-private and
private-to-public sectors for emergency response.
The CIP Partnership Model – Creating a Public/Private
Partnership
Michigan State
University developed the CIP Partnership Model to facilitate partnerships
between the public sector (police, fire, EMS, health, emergency management,
homeland security, public works, and other stakeholders) with the private
sector (businesses and non-governmental organizations) to collaborate on how to
better respond to, prepare for, and recover quicker from the impact of critical
incidents.
The CIP
Partnership Model includes the following six steps:
1.
Identify public and private sector stakeholders to
co-share leadership.
2.
Ask leaders to bring others to the table.
3.
Identify common issues on emergency preparedness for
collaboration.
4.
Identify new resources in the community to mitigate
the impact of critical incidents.
5.
Determine the challenges that participating
organizations encounter.
6.
Create sustainability in the partnership by
conducting a needs assessment, setting goals, and scheduling tasks performance.
To learn more about the CIP
Partnership Model you may download an explanation of
the model at www.cip.msu.edu or email Brit Weber, weberbr@msu.edu who will send you the document.
Building Resilience to Natural Disasters: A Framework
for Private Sector Engagement
The World
Economic Forum has released a report, which is part of a series of
multi-stakeholder projects on the private sector’s role in building resilience
for crisis management. This 20-page
document provides examples from across the globe on how the private sector is implementing
various initiatives to reduce the impact of natural disasters.
One of the key
points in the report is that the number of disasters has grown from an average
of 150 a year in 1980 to over 450 a year.
According to the U.S. National Institute of Building Sciences,
approximately 90% of disaster-related expenditures are for relief and
reconstruction. Further, for every
dollar invested in prevention, four dollars can be saved in disaster response
costs (World Economic Forum, 2008).
To read the
report, you can go to our CIP Information Exchange website and download
it. To enter the website, see the
directions listed below.
Recent Postings to the CIP Information Exchange
Website
The CIP Information Exchange website is a large database for
public and private sector professionals interested in homeland security,
emergency preparedness, business continuity, disaster recovery, and emergency
management. It also contains research publications, government documents,
news items, and more.
To enter the CIP Information Exchange website, please
go to https://angel.msu.edu and enter “msu.msu@angel” in the User/NetID and
“partnership” (both without quotation marks) as the password to log in. On the
next page, please click on CIP, which launches the main menu.
Located in the folder "Bulletin Board - Information for all Communities" are a variety of recent postings, including:
o
Resource Guide
for Critical Infrastructure Protection (ASIS)
o
Building
Resilience to Natural Disasters: A Framework for the Private Sector
o
Economic Costs
of Terrorism (Copenhagen Consensus Center)
o
Community
Emergency Planning Considerations (EMR-ISAC)
There are numerous other resources located on the website. To locate a specific topic, utilize the "search" function.
Past Newsletters
If
you are interested in viewing past CIP Update newsletters, please go to www.cip.msu.edu and select "Newsletters" from the main
menu.
Closing
If
you have any topics and/or ideas for a future CIP Update newsletter, please
contact Brit Weber at weberbr@msu.edu or (517) 355-2227 or other MSU staff members. About
every three weeks you will receive this newsletter via email. If you no longer
wish to be on this list, please reply to this email.
Disclaimer
The
views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the
views of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security or Michigan State University.
Sources
World Economic Forum. (January 2008). Building Resilience to Natural Disasters: A
Framework for Private Sector Engagement.
Retrieved from https://angel.msu.edu, which is the CIP Information
Exchange website.
Brit Weber
Program Director
CIP-Community Facilitation Program
School of Criminal Justice
Michigan State University
1407 S. Harrison Rd., 335 Nisbet Bldg.
East Lansing, MI 48823
Work: (517) 355-2227
Cell: (517) 206-1640
weberbr@msu.edu
Please visit our website: http://www.cip.msu.edu