CIP
Update
February
24, 2006
This
newsletter is for cities, counties and communities involved in
public-private partnerships for joint emergency preparedness, planning
and prevention.
Michigan
State University produces the newsletter through the Critical Incident Protocol
(CIP)-Community Facilitation Program under a grant awarded by the
Office of Grants & Training, Preparedness Directorate,
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 go to www.cip.msu.edu for more
information about the program.
Participating
Communities
Allentown,
PA / Annapolis, MD / Bethlehem,
PA / Brooklyn,
OH / Carroll County, MD / Casa Grande, AZ / Clark
County, NV / Evansville,
IN / Hoover, AL / Marquette
County, MI / Milwaukee, WI / Monroe
County, MI / Northampton County, PA / Oakland County, MI / Perkiomen
Valley, PA / Redmond, WA
/ Racine, WI / Richmond, VA / Rockville, MD / Sandy City, UT
We are
currently working
with 20 communities and will work
with another 24 cities, counties or communities over the next couple of
years. Of the 24 available CIP
Programs, we are in contact
with 10 communities. Is there a
location in the nation that you think may be
interested in building a public-private partnership for joint emergency
preparedness?
Allentown
Business Partnership Group
In 2004 the
CIP Program was initiated in Allentown, PA and they have been busy ever
since!
Recently,
the Business Partnership Group met to work on NIMS700, ICS100,
disasters and the level of crisis, testing emergency preparedness
plans, participating in drills with city agencies and selecting
upcoming speakers for future meetings. Additionally, this group
will be sharing leadership with both the city and county
agencies.
Annapolis
Critical Incident Partnership Group
In late
2004 the CIP Program started in the capital of Maryland –
Annapolis.
This active
group is composed of numerous talented individuals who understand the
value of public-private partnerships. They formalized an
agreement with the Chamber of Commerce to be an affiliate, similar to a
standing committee. Recently, they have been in the process of
formalizing their mission statement, objectives and creed. Here
is the “draft” of their objectives, which might assist other CIP groups
around the nation.
1.
Raise
awareness of the need for emergency preparedness within the Annapolis
and Anne Arundel County community and for business continuity planning
within the private sector.
2.
Support
private sector businesses in the protection of their critical
infrastructure, and in the preparedness of employees and their families
against domestic and civil emergencies.
3.
Serve as a
resource for local area best practices in emergency preparedness and
business continuity planning.
4.
Assist city
and county emergency managers in identifying resources available for
community response, recovery and restoration in the event of a
large-scale disaster in the region.
5.
Establish a
mentor-protégé relationship between businesses and
industries that have established programs in business continuity
planning and emergency preparedness and those that lack the capacity or
requisite resources.
6.
Establish a
program in community preparedness that can serve as a model for the
nation.
Risk
Management Model
There are
many risk management models that range from the simple to the complex
paradigms. In the CIP Program we standardize the process through
our Risk Assessment Matrix (RAM), which was built upon researching and
reviewing numerous military, governmental and private sector
models. For more information on the RAM, please visit our website
at www.cip.msu.edu
and click on Risk Assessment, where you can download the RAM form along
with directions on how to conduct a risk assessment.
Here is a
short version of another risk management process. There are three
components, which are threats, vulnerabilities and consequences.
Therefore, the first step is to identify the threats, which can be
divided into internal and external sources. The second step is to
assess the vulnerabilities, which can be generally identified as those factors that may
make it difficult to achieve established agency/business
objectives. The last part of this risk management model is
consequence, which is the outcome of an event expressed qualitatively
or quantitatively, is a loss, injury, disadvantage or gain.
If you would like
assistance in administering a risk assessment, you can sometimes find
these resources through your local emergency management or business
continuity professional. Additionally, feel free to contact the
CIP staff for assistance.
Emergency
Preparedness and Persons with Disabilities
Over the
last year the issue of emergency preparedness for persons with
disabilities has risen to top in discussions at the national, state and
local levels. In one of our business emergency preparedness
workshops in Illinois, one individual shared with the attendees that it
is estimated that over 54 million people in the U.S. have a
disability! Further, while recently attending a United States
Department of Homeland Security conference in San Diego, this same
topic was discussed at length.
The
question becomes have communities addressed this issue? What can
and should a community do? Often the local emergency management
professional, along with public safety officials have partnered with
agencies and non-profits that work with the disabled to plan for
emergencies, yet there are still numerous examples across the nation
where more needs to be done.
One
resource is the National Organization on Disability (located at www.nod.org), which
launched the “Emergency Preparedness Initiative” to ensure that emergency
managers address disability concerns and that people with disabilities
are included in all levels of emergency preparedness-planning,
response, and recovery (National Organization on Disability, 2006).
Throughout the first
three years of the program, EPI has become firmly established within
the emergency management industry and disability advocacy
organizations. EPI remains the nationally recognized leader in
emergency preparedness for people with disabilities and special needs.
Upcoming
Conference on Public/Private Partnerships
A Midwest
Summit titled “Economics of Disaster”, which will enhance critical
incident preparedness through public/private partnerships, is scheduled
for May 3-4, 2006 in LaCrosse, WI.
Creating successful
public-private partnerships is an essential key in identifying,
addressing, and resolving issues concerning preparedness and continuity
in today’s business world. The Midwest Summit will provide
opportunities for innovation and investment in resilience and economic
sustainability for both private businesses and government
infrastructure. This two-day seminar will focus on establishing
formal coordinated agreements, networking, information sharing, crime
prevention, resource sharing, training, legislation, operations,
establishing regional information command centers and coordinating the
flow of information regarding infrastructure all in an effort to
promote crisis preparedness and homeland security (Kondracki).
Conference details are in
progress, and in the next newsletter we will share with you costs,
speakers, break-outs, registration, lodging and more.
Workshops
on Enhancing Your Business’s Emergency Preparedness by Developing
Alliances
Michigan State University
worked with the State of Illinois, Department of Commerce and Economic
Opportunity in putting forth these workshops around the state. In
the workshop, participants learned how businesses position and recover
from a crisis or emergency, create a stronger relationship with public
safety officials and learn best practices for saving money through
long-term crisis planning.
The workshops were held
at three community colleges, and coordinated by the College of Lake
County, Grayslake. MSU staff shared best practices, along with
emergency preparedness topics, business continuity planning and
included a table exercise to finish off the day-long seminars.
Critical
Infrastructure Protection and the Public/Private Sector Interface
A one-day
conference was recently presented by a group of technology-related
private-sector companies in Detroit, MI, spearheaded by Telecom
Technicians, Inc. of Sterling Heights, MI and First Response Solutions
Inc. of Southfield, MI. Subtitled "Cooperative Security
Technology Solutions in the Post 9/11 World" the one of a
first-of-its-kind event brought together representatives from local,
county, state and federal first-responder agencies along with security
personnel from Kelly Services, Northrup Grumman, Olympia Entertainment,
Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Target and the Ambassador Bridge,
among others, to share information, ideas, and solutions related to
critical infrastructure protection.
The
discussions centered on leveraging security assets, trends and
challenges in video security, biometrics applied, identity verification
technologies, computerized facility emergency pre-planning, real-time
vital signs monitoring for first responders, and the role of the
Michigan Emergency Management Agency at the private/public
interface. It was discovered that public and private entities
share many of the same concerns when addressing security issues, which
are establishing effective cross-sector working relationships;
identifying affordable technological solutions to address evolving
security issues; accessing and sharing current risk and threat
information; and complying with various regulations and standards.
Kelly
Services spoke on the importance of establishing and maintaining
public/private partnerships. After citing statistics on the
significant impact that unprepared businesses suffer from disasters,
they listed the many similarities between public institutions and
private businesses in the area of crisis management. In the
summary, Kelly Services noted that private and public entities have the
same goals, which are to help ensure people are okay and to continue
primary objectives in the face of major disruption.
Recent
Postings to CIP
Information Exchange Website
To enter the "CIP Information Exchange" website, please go to
https://angel.msu.edu and enter your user/password
ID (or
use msu.msu@angel in the User/NetID and
"partnership" as the password to log in). Click on CIP, which
launches to the main menu.
Located in
the folder "Bulletin Board - Information for all Communities" are just
a few of the following postings:
“National
Infrastructure Protection Plan (Jan 2006 Version 2.0)”
“Retailer Target Branches out into Police Work”
“Seven
Steps to Employee Preparedness”
“Pipeline Emergencies Training Program”
There are
numerous other resources located on the website. To locate a
specific topic, use the "search" function, which can be found on the
main menu page on the right-hand side in the green task bar.
Starting
a CIP Program
Feel free
to make a referral to the MSU staff about possibly starting a CIP
Program elsewhere in the United States. We can use your
assistance!
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 want to be on this list,
please reply to this email.
Sources
Kondracki,
Edward. (07 Feb. 2006). Summit Announcement.
Internet notification on February 07, 2006.
National
Organization on Disability. (2006). Emergency Preparedness Initiative.
Retrieved on February 24,
2006 from: http://www.nod.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.ViewPage&PageID=11&
Brit
Weber
School
of Criminal Justice
Michigan
State University
1407
S. Harrison Rd., 335 Nisbet Bldg.
East
Lansing, MI 48823
Work:
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