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Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Response Plan Summary
This summary gives the overview of the agencies' response to the potential of the spread of BSE. "Introduction : USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is responsible for ensuring the health and care of animals and plants...USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is responsible for protecting the Nation's meat and poultry supply--making sure it is safe, wholesome, unadulterated, and properly labeled and packaged. These two agencies have come together to lead USDA's actions in the prevention, monitoring, and control of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the U.S. livestock and food supply. The public knows BSE as "mad cow disease," a disease linked to human cases of new-variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD). USDA knows BSE as the disease that devastated the livestock industry in the United Kingdom and shattered consumer confidence in Europe. BSE has affected international trade and all aspects of the animal and public health communities...No case of BSE has ever been found in the United States. Since 1989, USDA has had a number of stringent safeguards in place to prevent BSE from entering the country. USDA conducts an ongoing, comprehensive interagency surveillance program for BSE. This surveillance program allows USDA to monitor actively for BSE to ensure immediate detection in the event that BSE were to be introduced into the United States. Immediate detection allows for swift response. As an emergency preparedness measure, USDA has developed this BSE Response Plan to be initiated in the event that a case of BSE is diagnosed in the United States. The Plan details comprehensive instructions for USDA staff as to who is to do what, when, where, and how in the event that BSE were to be diagnosed in the United States."
United States. Food Safety and Inspection Service; United States. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
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Homeland Security War on Terror Timeline
This timeline describes the events of the "War on Terror". It begins with the call by President Bush for a new office on Homeland Security, and ends with the capture of Saddam Hussein.
United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Homeland Security
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Funding Alternatives for Fire and Emergency Services
Stimulated by local budget pressures, fire and emergency medical service departments in the United States are using a wide array of fundraising approaches beyond traditional methods. These range from small fees for special services to major new sources of funds such as benefit assessments. The alternatives include impact development fees and subscription charges, in which households pay a flat rate and then are absolved from any further payments associated with emergency medical services beyond those covered by their medical insurance.
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Strategies for Marketing Your Fire Department Today and Beyond
The purpose of this manual is to assist fire service leaders in examining the future, the role of the fire service in that future, and ways to "get there from here." It is designed to provide a fire chief, a public information officer, and other leaders in the fire service with guidance and tips on marketing a department and its services to the local customers: the citizens and organizations served by the department.
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Guide to Developing Effective Standard Operating Procedures for Fire & EMS Departments
This guide to Developing Effective Standard Operating Procedures for Fire and EMS Departments is designed to assist emergency service managers in establishing effective standard operating procedures (SOPs) within their organizations. It will serve as a valuable resource for personnel seeking a clear understanding of operational issues, and will facilitate compliance with current laws, regulations, and standards related to the emergency services. The guide explains how SOPs can be developed, lists topic areas that should be covered, and describes various styles and formats.
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Aftermath of Firefighter Fatality Incidents: Preparing for the Worst
Firefighter fatality incidents have occurred in all types of fire departments in recent years, from rural volunteer forces to major metropolitan career departments. This study focused on the experiences of six fire departments that suffered at least one multiple firefighter-fatality incidents during the past 10 years. The focus is on the operational, organizational, and cultural impacts on the fire departments and their members. Commonalties and trends in the experiences of the fire departments were examined to describe any changes that occurred within the department after the incident, identify potential areas of concern, and disseminate the lessons learned
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
Thiel, Adam K.
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Hazardous Materials Response Technology Assessment
This manual is designed to familiarize readers with various technologies that are available (and in development) that a fire and/or rescue department could use to control and mitigate a hazardous materials incident. In addition, this manual provides concepts, terminology, and key considerations that may help in the management of incidents of hazardous material contamination. The manual is intended to illustrate the characteristics of hazardous materials technologies and is not intended as a definitive guide on establishing a hazardous materials program in a department.
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Democratic Strategy on Homeland Security: Making America Safer: Closing the Security Gap
This document is the Democrats' strategy to secure the homeland and a call for action to the Administration. It is a strategy to make America safer and more secure as quickly as possible. The plan highlights steps for preventing terrorist attacks, means of protecting our land and sea borders as well as airspace, the importance of providing security inside the US, and suggestions on preparing our communities to better deal with and prevent terrorism. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of protecting civil liberties and the US Constitution.
United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Homeland Security
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National Security Telecommunications Policy (NSC-NSDD-97)
The National Communications System [NCS] was established by Executive Order 12472 as a Federal interagency group assigned national security and emergency preparedness (NS/EP) telecommunications responsibilities throughout the full spectrum of emergencies. Their responsibilities include planning for, developing, and implementing enhancements to the national telecommunications infrastructure to achieve measurable improvements in survivability, interoperability, and operational effectiveness under all conditions and seeking greater effectiveness in managing and using national telecommunication resources to support the Government during any emergency.
National Security Council (U.S.)
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Winning the War on Terror
At the moment, the public face of our enemy is Osama bin Laden and the global al-Qaeda network. But over the long term, we are at war with a brand of radical Islamic fundamentalism that is extremely dangerous, is growing, and is a true threat to our people, our economy, and our way of life. Let us be clear - this is a war for nothing less than our survival. Al-Qaeda and like minded groups across the globe are limited only by the weapons they are able to obtain. There is no doubt that if they acquire chemical, biological, radiological, or even nuclear weapons, they will one day try to use them. And if they succeed, many, many lives will be lost and our world will be forever changed. Our goal must be to win this war; to defeat the enemy. We should not be satisfied with merely reducing the risk of attack. We should not accept that this war will go on forever. Just as we no longer train schoolchildren to run into underground shelters for fear of a Soviet nuclear attack, we should aspire to a future where we no longer live with the uncertainty of catastrophic terror at our doorstep. This document examines three missions we must carry out to win the war on terror: aggressively attack the terrorists and the infrastructure that supports them; protect the homeland; and prevent the rise of future terrorists.
United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Homeland Security
Turner, Jim, 1946-
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Humanitarian and Civic Assistance Projects and Military Training
This report, one in a series on military humanitarian assistance, highlights the abundant opportunities for improving the training effectiveness of humanitarian and civic assistance projects and programs. Current shortcomings are identified and suggestions for improvements provided. Shortcomings are primarily based on the lack of comprehensive reporting and analysis of the effectiveness of humanitarian and civic assistance projects, especially for one of their statutory purposes: the training of U.S. personnel. Few after action reports document training, even with basic information such as the number of personnel trained and the tasks or skills taught. In reviewing over 100 after action reports from DoD medical humanitarian assistance projects, none compared the proficiency of military personnel in any skill before and after the mission.
United States. Department of Defense; Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance Medicine
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Measuring the Effectiveness of Department of Defense Humanitarian Assistance
The global community of humanitarian assistance providers, both military and civilian, is addressing the urgent need for more effective activities. Although military and civilian providers of humanitarian relief often face similar challenges in delivering effective relief, there are distinct differences in their approach, constraints, resources, and areas of expertise. Some differences may have delayed the development of close working relationships in some instances. Despite differences, civilian and military providers share the common goals of relieving suffering and improving health and other conditions for mankind. Civilian and military providers also currently have parallel efforts aimed at developing and ensuring more effective humanitarian assistance, particularly through information sharing. This report, from the military perspective of Department of Defense provided humanitarian assistance, and a sister report on "other-than-DoD" providers of humanitarian assistance, reviews the current convergent evolution of measuring the effectiveness of humanitarian assistance.
United States. Department of Defense; Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance Medicine
Llewellyn, Craig H.; Drifmeyer, Jeffrey E.
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Measuring the Effectiveness of Humanitarian Assistance other than Department of Defense Providers
The global community of humanitarian assistance providers, both civilian and military, are both currently addressing the need to develop more effective strategies and means for planning and conducting humanitarian assistance. Although these two different groups often face similar challenges in delivering effective humanitarian assistance, there are also distinct differences in the approaches, constraints, resources, and expertise of civilian and military humanitarian assistance providers. Greater sharing of information on successes and the challenges remaining would be mutually beneficial and seems particularly applicable to collaborative improvements in measuring, documenting, and evaluating the effectiveness of various means of providing humanitarian assistance.
This report is from the perspective of civilian organizations providing humanitaraian assistance, i.e. "other-than-DoD" providers. A companion report addresses the military perspective or DoD providers of humanitarian assistance. From these different perspectives, there appears a kind of 'covergent evolution' in the strategies and tools used by military and civilian providers. This process and increased civil-military collaboration will further the implementation of more effective humanitarian assistance.
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance Medicine
Llewellyn, Craig H.; Drifmeyer, Jeffrey E.
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Medical Preparedness and Planning For Manmade Disasters and Deployable Telemedicine
Training workshops hosted by the Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance Medicine (CDHAM), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, Maryland, Under the Sponsorship of the United State Joint Forces Command (JFCOM), Norfolk, Virginia at the US Mexico Border Health Association (USMBHA) 59th Annual Meeting, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico May 29-June 1, 2001, 60th Annual Meeting, Westin Soberano Hotel, Chihuahua, CHIH, Mexico June 4, 2002.
This report outlines the two workshops conducted by CDHAM. The first symposium objectives were to examine recent manmade disasters through the use of case studies and lessons learned and evaluate the fundamentals of emergency medical planning and practice. The second workshop featured a bioterrorism exercise simulated to occur along the U.S.-Mexico border and provide real-time, hands-on demonstrations using commercial, off-the-shelf telemedicine equipment.
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance Medicine
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Overview of Overseas Humanitarian Assistance, Humanitarian and Civic Assistance, and Excess Property Programs
DoD is to be commended for the vision in undertaking a major assessment of some of its diverse programs for humanitarian assistance. As discussed in detail below, a major finding of this report series is that both military and civilian providers of humanitarian assistance, medical and otherwise, face similar challenges in measuring the effectiveness of their activities. This primarily involves determining what critical information needs to be collected and how to transform that information in a timely manner into management decisions that directly improve effectiveness. Decisions which determine the effectiveness of humanitarian assistance are required in both the immediate time frame, such as within the planning and execution of a particular project; and in the longer term, such as in managing humanitarian assistance programs regionally and over time.
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance Medicine
Llewellyn, Craig H.; Drifmeyer, Jeffrey E.
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U.S. Participants Perspectives on Military Medical Humanitarian Assistance
The survey of 215 military personnel from all Services, including 50 who managed or led humanitarian assistance projects and 165 who participated, provided information useful in improving the effectiveness of DoD humanitarian assistance and programs. This report focuses on military providers' perspectives. Another report in this series, "Host Nation Participants' Perspectives on Military Medical Humanitarian Assistance" focuses on the recipients or beneficiaries.
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance Medicine
Llewellyn, Craig H.; Drifmeyer, Jeffrey E.
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Colorado Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Management [website]
The mission of the Colorado Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Management is to "provide leadership and support to Colorado communities to prevent, protect, mitigate, respond and recover from all-hazard events including acts of terrorism." The Division is comprised of the following three offices: the Office of Emergency Management, the Office of Preparedness and the Office of Prevention and Security.
Colorado. Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
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Fire Department Communications Manual: A Basic Guide to System Concepts and Equipment
This manual is written as an introduction to a variety of fire department communications topics. It is intended to provide a wide fire service audience with a minimum level of familiarity with communications basics: hardware issues, policy and procedures issues, and human resource issues. It attempts to provide some background on all major aspects of communications for the fire service, with the exception of call receiving systems (9-1-1, municipal street boxes, etc.). The manual is designed to be useful for a wide range of purposes, from developing specifications for new equipment to development of a department-wide radio system to familiarizing a novice with the basics of fire department communications. In addition to the hardware of wires, radios, and computers, the manual addresses the policies and planning processes that must be undertaken to effectively use the hardware to achieve the desired result. Management of communications through standard operating procedures and policies also is discussed.
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Pacific Disaster Center [website]
The PDC website is designed to service emergency managers' understanding of current hazard and disaster activity in the region as well as providing information about PDC services, capabilities, and products. The security and sustainability components of the PDC program are supported by scenario development related to natural and human-induced disasters, and how to respond to these events.
Pacific Disaster Center
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Indiana Department of Homeland Security [website]
The Indiana Department of Homeland Security includes following agencies: the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), the Department of Fire and Building Services (DFBS), and the Public Safety Training Institute (PSTI). These agencies "work arm-in-arm to provide the citizens of Indiana with the most advanced public safety information and assistance available." The site includes information on: Planning, Training, Emergency Response, Fire and Building Safety, and the Indiana Emergency Response Commission(IERC).
Indiana. Department of Homeland Security
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Idaho Bureau of Homeland Security [website]
This website contains natural hazards information, resources on training exercises, events calendar, library, and a number of emergency preparedness programs. It also contains information on grants, CERT teams, and IDAVOAD [Idaho Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster] links.
Idaho. Bureau of Homeland Security
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Analysis of First Responder Grant Funding
"At the direction of Chairman Cox and Subcommittee Chairman Shadegg, Committee staff undertook a review to determine: (1) whether DHS was making its terrorism preparedness grant funds available to States in a timely and effective manner; (2) how DHS terrorism preparedness grants were being allocated by States among their internal jurisdictions, and how quickly; (3) how these grants were being utilized by States and localities; and (4) the reasons for any delay in expenditures of these funds by state and local recipients. Based on a review of the grant data and other information collected, Committee staff found that: 1) DHS awarded homeland security grant funds to States reasonably quickly, but without any real assessment of need or risk (except for the Urban Area Security Initiative). 2) Almost one-third of all States allocated money among their internal jurisdictions without regard to need or risk (other than population), and those that applied risk or need factors did not follow any standard approach to doing so. 3) There were no Federal terrorism preparedness standards or goals to guide expenditure of funds at the state and local levels, leading to numerous examples of questionable spending. 4) Only a very small portion of awarded funds has been utilized to date by state and local recipients. Committee staff found a myriad of explanations for this delay, but identified four common causes: planning to spend the grant, which often occurred late in the grant process, after the grant was awarded and obligated to localities; obtaining local board approval of grant spending; fulfilling state and local procurement regulations; and setting aside funds that could be used to purchase equipment while waiting for reimbursement from DHS."
United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Homeland Security
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Funding to Prevent, Prepare for, and Respond to Acts of Terrorism and Other Emergencies
This document includes a chart that breaks down all homeland security grant funding categories. This chart was used in Chairman Christopher Cox's analysis of first responder funding, and included with it is an explanation of how the chart is set up.
United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Homeland Security
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New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness [website]
The New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness website covers a variety of national and state-wide resources and guidelines on emergency and terrorism preparedness.
New Jersey. Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness
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Resource Definitions: 120 Resources
"This glossary of terms and definitions provides a basic understanding of the resources commonly used and/or exchanged during a disaster. These terms provide a basis for the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA's) resource typing initiative. An annex of 11 Federal assets is also included in the glossary to provide a snapshot of the Federal capabilities available to State and local entities. The glossary is a living document, and will continuously be updated and revised."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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USAF Counterproliferation Center: Homeland Security (HLS) [website]
This website serves as a web-portal for the Air National Guard providing access to information regarding homeland security, terrorism, counter-terrorism and CBRN-related issues.
USAF Counterproliferation Center
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Using Tabletop Exercises & Drills to Reveal Training Needs
This presentation outlines FEMA's "Introduction to Exercise Design" including the necessity of emergency exercises to evaluate an organization's capability to execute one or more portions of its response plan or contingency plan.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
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University of Delaware Disaster Research Center [website]
"The Disaster Research Center, the first social science research center in the world devoted to the study of disasters, was established at Ohio State University in 1963 and moved to the University of Delaware in 1985. The Center conducts field and survey research on group, organizational and community preparation for, response to, and recovery from natural and technological disasters and other community-wide crises. DRC researchers have carried out systematic studies on a broad range of disaster types, including hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, hazardous chemical incidents, and plane crashes. DRC has also done research on civil disturbances and riots, including the 1992 Los Angeles unrest. The Staff have conducted nearly 600 field studies since the Centers inception, traveling to communities throughout the United States and to a number of foreign countries, including Mexico, Canada, Japan, Italy, and Turkey."
University of Delaware. Disaster Research Center
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Common Approach to Preparedness: The National Preparedness Goal
"Terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and other emergencies respect neither political nor geographic boundaries. To deal with major events effectively requires a national preparedness system that makes clear the roles and missions of entities at all levels, strengthens preparedness partnerships, establishes performance objectives and measures, and directs the allocation of resources and prioritization of investments. A major milestone in building this national preparedness system is the Interim National Preparedness Goal (the Goal). The Goal will transform the way we think about preparedness by defining capabilities that must be in place, at appropriate levels, to prevent and respond to current and future threats and hazards. The Goal establishes measurable targets and priorities to guide the Nation's planning, and provides a systematic approach for determining how prepared we are, how prepared we need to be, and how we should prioritize efforts to close the gap."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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HSPD-8 in Context: The NRP, NIMS and the Goal
"Complex 21st century threats, exemplified by the horrific events of September 11th 2001, demand that all Americans share responsibility for homeland security. All levels of government, the private sector, and non-governmental agencies must be prepared to prevent, protect against, respond to, and recover from a wide spectrum of major events that exceed the capabilities of any single entity. These hazards require a unified and coordinated national approach to planning and to domestic incident management. To address this need, Homeland Security Presidential Directive 5: Management of Domestic Incidents (HSPD-5) and Homeland Security Presidential Directive 8: National Preparedness (HSPD-8) establish national initiatives that develop a common approach to preparedness and response. The initiatives are the National Incident Management System (NIMS), the National Response Plan (NRP), and the National Preparedness Goal (the Goal)."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
