July 11, 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.
Michigan State University
through the CIP Program will “enhance cities, counties, and region’s
capabilities to prepare for, respond to, and recover from man-made and natural
disasters through public and private sector collaboration, communication, and
cooperation.” MSU facilitates public-private partnerships and the CIP
Program is free of charge to participating communities.
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 41 communities in 23 states with over 3,300 participants
establishing community 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:
Alabama: Hoover
Arizona: Casa Grande
California: Mountain View
Colorado: Littleton
Connecticut: Norwalk
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
South Carolina: Horry County
Texas: Dallas
Utah: Layton, Sandy City
Virginia:
Arlington
County, Richmond
Washington: Redmond
Wisconsin: Brown County, Dane County, Eau Claire County,
Milwaukee, Outagamie County, Racine County, Superior, Winnebago County
CIP Program
Activities
August 1, 2008: Columbia, SC (Initiating the CIP Program)
September 14/15, 2008: Atlanta, GA (ASIS Conference)
October 7, 2008: Dane County, WI (Facilitating Tabletop Exercise)
October 21, 2008: Lake-Cook IL Regional (Facilitating Tabletop Exercise)
October 21, 2008: Atlanta, GA (IEDC Conference)
October 26, 2008: Richmond, VA (EPA Conference)
DHS Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CI/KR) - #18 Sector
Recently, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) added a new CI/KR sector, #18 – Critical Manufacturing. This is described as, “systems and operations that, if attacked or disrupted, would cause major interruptions to the essential functions of one of more other CIKR sectors and result in national-level impacts (Federal Register, 2008)”.
Initially, four industry systems will be included: primary metal manufacturing; machinery manufacturing; electrical equipment, appliance, and manufacturing; and transportation manufacturing.
To view the Federal Register, go to the following website: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html.
In addition, the 2008 Critical Infrastructure Protection Congress will be held on October 6th-8th in Las Vegas. This is a cross-sector information sharing event championed by the Information Sharing & Analysis Centers (ISAC). The event is presented by the ISAC Council (representing 11 critical infrastructure sectors), InfraGard (the FBI’s public and private sector information-sharing association), and the Partnership for Critical Infrastructure Security (PCIS).
Statistics on Emergency Preparedness
Recently, the CIP staff shared emergency preparedness statistics with one of the DHS offices. Occasionally, the readers of this newsletter have asked for similar information which may benefit your programs.
For every dollar invested in prevention, four dollars can be saved in disaster response costs, according to the U.S. National Institute of Building Services (in World Economic Forum, 2008). You may access the World Economic Forum report at: http://www.unisdr.org/eng/about_isdr/isdr-publications/joint-pub/building-resilience-natural-disasters-wef.pdf.
The University of Texas reports that only 6% of companies suffering from a “catastrophic” data loss survive, 43% never reopen and 51% close within two years. To view additional information from this report, please go to: http://iosafe.com/industry-stats.
Datapro Research Company found that 43% of companies hit by a “severe crisis” never reopened, and another 29% fail within two years. To learn more from this report, please visit their website at: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-649866891.html.
The following statistics are derived from a 2008 survey of 461 businesses in the greater Las Vegas area:
o 74% of businesses had “never” attended a meeting on disaster preparedness
o 64% of businesses had never received written information on disaster preparedness
o 59% had never purchased business interruption insurance
o 48% had never developed a business-disaster recovery plan
o More than 40% of businesses would classify a 2-day to 7-day shutdown as devastating.
To read the full article, please go to: http://lvbusinesspress.com/articles/2008/02/25/news/iq_19819486.txt.
DHS Ready Business Update and Additional Statistics
In September 2004, the Department of Homeland Security launched their Ready Business campaign to raise awareness in the business community’s regarding the need for emergency planning.
According to the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), small businesses represent more than 99 percent of all employers and provide approximately 75 percent of the net new jobs. The definition of a small business varies depending upon industry; however, most organizations with less than 500-1000 employees and/or less than $750,000 annual revenue are considered small businesses, according to the SBA.
A national survey of businesses with up to 999 employees conducted by The Ad Council found that:
o 59% assessed their own business as “very” or “somewhat” prepared
o 55% indicated they had taken either significant or small steps to improve their preparedness in the past year
o 38% said that their company had an emergency plan in place.
For more information on Ready Business, please go to: http://www.ready.gov/america/_downloads/factsheets/ReadyBizFactSheet_053108.doc.
Dallas’s Public/Private Partnership is a Success
Several years ago, various stakeholders in the first responder community and other officials, including the private sector, developed the Dallas Emergency Response Team (DERT) program. DERT is a public/private partnership between government agencies, businesses, non-profit organizations, and other entities for joint crisis management. The City of Dallas prides itself on providing effective, progressive, and innovative services to the community. Recently, Dallas held its first DERT conference and exceeded expectations with over 450 attendees.
The DERT program was initially built around the downtown district, but with the strength of the partnership program, they plan to expand it city-wide. The Dallas Police Department will take the lead in administering this program throughout the city with support by the Office of Emergency Management, Fire-Rescue Department and others. The CIP staff assisted in expanding the DERT Program in Dallas.
For more information, please go to www.dallasalert.org.
Resource and Donation Management Program – Aidmatrix Network
The Aidmatrix Network began in the United States as a national donation management program funded by FEMA, the Aidmatrix Foundation, and corporate donors. It provides an integrated, coordinated approach to donation management by linking the private sector, government and leading nonprofit entities to a centralized management system.
The Network has distributed more than $1.5 billion in aid annually to more than 35,000 volunteer organizations via a flexible, easy-to-use, real-time network of tools, processes, and people. The Aidmatrix Network can be utilized for everyday events or during a disaster. For more information on this program please go to: http://www.aidmatrix.org.
Media Security and Reliability Council (MSRC)
When working with prospective communities to create public/private partnerships, the CIP staff recommends that local media participate in the joint crisis management program. The local media reports on the CIP Program in participating communities, but seldom participates as a community decision-maker in the partnership process. However, when the local media collaborated with partners in the CIP program, it has proven valuable to area stakeholders.
Many senior professionals will comment that during a crisis, the biggest challenge is communications and communication systems. For example, what are you doing to ensure that the local media will be able to provide communications during a critical incident? The media plays a vital role during man-made and natural disasters.
Within the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is the Media Security and Reliability Council (MSRC), whose mission is to prepare a comprehensive, national strategy for securing and sustaining broadcast and facilities throughout the nation during terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and other crises.
According to the MSRC (2004):
Effective delivery of emergency information to the public should be achieved through a public/private partnership that makes coordinated
use of mass media and other dissemination systems to quickly reach
large numbers and diverse groups of the public at risk to deliver emergency information to the public (p. 11).
Consistent with best practices in emergency management and business continuity planning, local and state governments and the media should cooperate to create, review and update emergency communications procedures, such as EAS, Amber plans and their components, to quickly disseminate critical information to the largest possible audience (p.11).
The CIP staff recommends including the media as a stakeholder when building or enhancing a community public/private partnership for joint crisis management.
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 click on Angel Guest Account from the drop-down menu. Click on proceed and in the next webpage box, enter “msu.msu@angel” and “partnership” (both without quotation marks) as the password. On the next page, click on Critical Incident Protocol (CIP) – Community Facilitation, which launches the main menu.
Located in the folder "Bulletin Board - Information for all Communities" are a variety of recent postings, including:
o NFPA1600 / Standard on Disaster/Emergency Management and Business Continuity Program
o ...And not a Drop to Drink. Water, a Test for Emergency Managers
o Too Much Emphasis on Technology Makes Security Processes Fail
o NIMS/ICS in a Private Sector Company
o 2008 Emergency Response Guidebook
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
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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.
Source
Media Security and Reliability Council (MSRC). (2004 March 2). Comprehensive Best Practices Recommendations. pp. 1-14. Retrieved on July 11, 2008 from: http://www.npr.org/euonline/members/prec2004/07_disaster_prep/msrc_best_practices_2004.03.pdf.
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
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