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LLIS Best Practice: Emergency Management Programs for Healthcare Facilities: Emergency Operations Plan: Concept of Operations: Activation
"This Best Practice describes what the activation section of a healthcare facility's concept of operations should include."
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LLIS Best Practice -- Incident Site Security: Inner Perimeters
"Inner perimeter procedures delineate and maintain inner perimeters or 'control zones.' Procedures should include hazardous material (HazMat) detection, personal protective equipment (PPE) standard enforcement, decontamination of out-going personnel, and evidence preservation. Inner perimeter procedures are essential for ensuring the safety of emergency responders and the public, particularly in the context of a terrorist incident."
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LLIS Practice Note: Emergency Communications: Use of an Encrypted Radio Channel for Senior Regional Officials during the 2009 Presidential Inauguration
"The National Capital Region (NCR) established an encrypted radio channel for use by the
region's senior leaders, operations centers, and command posts during the 56th
Presidential Inaugural events. This secure channel provided a dedicated and reliable
method for these parties to coordinate activities and information throughout the
Inauguration."
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LLIS Best Practice: Pre-Incident Site Planning: Overview
"This document presents an overview of a collection of Best Practices that recommend preincident planning procedures and guidelines. Pre-incident planning involves the collection and storage of critical site data and characteristics about target hazard sites by emergency responders. Pre-incident plans (also called target folders) can improve the effectiveness of responses to terrorist and emergency incidents."
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LLIS Best Practice: State and Local Government Continuity of Operations Planning: Elements of a Continuity of Operations Plan
"COOP [continuity of operations] planning encompasses three types of plans that describe how the plan will be developed and carried out. Jurisdictions should begin by developing a strategic plan for achieving COOP goals. The basic COOP plan itself will include key elements such as the identification of essential functions, delegation of authorities, order of succession, protection of vital documents and systems, alternate operating locations, communications plans, and a plan for tests, training, and exercises. Finally, each agency must develop a response plan that details the initiation, implementation, and termination of the COOP plan."
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LLIS Best Practice: Mutual Aid Agreements: Developing Agreements
"This Best Practice provides guidance on developing written agreements, contracts, memoranda, and legislation that will guide aid during an emergency."
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LLIS Best Practice: Pre-Incident Site Planning: Pre-Planning Managers
"Pre-planning managers oversee and coordinate the collection, analysis, and dissemination of pre-planning information."
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LLIS Best Practice: Volunteer and Donations Management: Managing and Distributing Unsolicited Goods
"After an emergency, the public feels compelled to donate goods to help those affected by the incident. Emergency managers and public officials may educate the public on the need to assist those affected by disaster through cash donations; however, unsolicited goods will inevitably be donated. Emergency managers must create a plan to manage unsolicited goods during an emergency so that they do not hinder response and recovery operations."
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LLIS Best Practice: School Emergency Management Planning: Hazard Vulnerability Assessments
"HVAs [hazard vulnerability assessments] are essential elements of school emergency management planning. Schools can utilize HVAs to identify potential hazards and to prioritize prevention and mitigation efforts. HVAs are typically conducted by risk assessment teams that include school personnel and representatives from the local emergency management community. The purpose of this Best Practice is to [provide] an overview of planning concepts for conducting a school hazard vulnerability assessment (HVA)."
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LLIS Best Practice: Pre-Incident Site Planning: Selecting Sites to Pre-plan
"To conserve limited resources, jurisdictions need to prioritize target hazard sites based on threat/vulnerability assessments. When considering the broad range of potential terrorist target hazard sites, jurisdictions should give priority to high-risk/high-consequence sites. Fixed sites with large occupancies, symbolic value, and/or where large-scale events take place may require pre-incident plans. As a rule, emergency response departments and the pre-plan team leadership should be included in the permit/license notification process for large-scale events to ensure that appropriate plans exist for these venues. Even small jurisdictions should consider preplanning activities for local target hazard sites (e.g. a regional high school)." The purpose of this Best Practice is "to select target hazard sites for pre-plans/target folders."
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LLIS Best Practice: Mutual Aid Agreements: Mutual Aid Assessment
"Prior to developing new mutual aid agreements, jurisdictions must understand requirements, capabilities, and shortfalls. Mutual aid assessments help agencies and jurisdictions to evaluate existing agreements for effectiveness and seek out new ways to meet preparedness goals. The purpose of this Best Practice describes the process for assessing mutual aid needs."
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LLIS Best Practice: Radiological Dispersal Device Incident Response Planning: Psychological Management
"Experts believe that an RDD [Radiological Dispersal Device] event may have a significant psychological impact on victims, emergency responders, and the public, even if the overall number of killed and injured individuals is small. An RDD incident could trigger mass anxiety and strain or could overwhelm a jurisdiction's critical services. However, many jurisdictions may not be prepared to address the individual and collective psychological and behavioral responses to acts of unconventional terrorism, especially those involving RDDs. Public officials and emergency response personnel must be cognizant of the unique psychological and social factors likely to influence the public's response to an RDD incident. This understanding is essential to help jurisdictions effectively manage acts of terrorism involving the release of radioactive materials. This document describes the fundamental issues and procedures that jurisdictions should consider when pre-planning for the psychological management of RDD victims, emergency responders, and the public[.]"
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LLIS Best Practice: Radiological Dispersal Device Incident Response Planning: Long-Term Management
"Emergency response organizations need to plan for long-term management activities following an RDD [Radiological Dispersal Device] incident. An RDD could contaminate several city blocks as a result of atmospheric dispersion of the radioactive material. Experts expect the radioactive material to disperse in a non-uniform manner due to the complexity of urban architecture. Wind patterns could carry the contamination in unpredictable directions, leaving uneven deposition areas with numerous hot spots. As a result, decontamination after an RDD incident is likely to be a long and costly process. Decontamination activities could be technically challenging, require a considerable amount of resources, and involve multiple agencies. Plans should include provisions for site decontamination and long-term monitoring of the public, the environment, and the water and food supplies after an RDD incident. Pre-planning for appropriate cleanup levels can be critical to cleanup and site restoration activities. The extent of an RDD's social and economic damage may depend largely on how quickly and effectively cleanup levels are established and on public acceptance of those levels. This Best Practice provides information concerning pre-planning principles for longterm management activities after an RDD incident"
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LLIS Best Practice: Strategic National Stockpile Distribution Planning: Recruitment of Staff and Volunteers
"One of the greatest challenges to distribution of SNS [Strategic National Stockpile] assets is a lack of adequate personnel to staff receipt, store, and stage (RSS) sites and dispensing sites. State and local SNS planners need to identify required staff positions at these facilities, determine whether each staff position requires a specialized professional, a trained volunteer, or an untrained volunteer, and recruit individuals to fill these positions in an emergency. This Best Practice provides state and local SNS planners with information about planning processes for recruiting staff and volunteers."
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LLIS Best Practice -- Public-Private Partnerships for Emergency Preparedness: Education, Training, and Technical Assistance
"Public-private partnerships can enhance emergency prevention, preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery efforts through cross-sector education, technical assistance, training, and interdependency exercises. Education and training on partners' roles, interests, and capabilities can help develop public-private relationships and promote crosssector collaboration on preparedness issues. Education, training, and technical assistance can also complement public-private partnerships' related emergency planning efforts by raising cross-sector awareness of current threats and issues."
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LLIS Best Practice: Local Anti-Terrorism Information and Intelligence Sharing: Overview
"Outlines the functions that are essential for effective local anti-terrorism information and intelligence sharing. This Best Practice series also provides an overview of the organizations and mechanisms that can perform these functions."
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LLIS Best Practice: Strategic National Stockpile Distribution Planning: Public Information During Dispensing Operations
"State and local SNS [Strategic National Stockpile] planners and public health officials need to develop a public information strategy and plan for SNS operations. These should identify the public's information requirements during SNS distribution operations, specify which types of communication mechanisms will be available during operations, and how officials can use these mechanisms to meet the public's SNS-related information requirements."
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LLIS Best Practice: Mutual Aid Agreements: Addressing Terrorism
"Terrorism presents daunting challenges to emergency responders, particularly if chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or high explosive (CBRNE) weapons are employed. Responses to such incidents may demand a large volume and/or specialized types of resources. Mutual aid agreements can address shortfalls in the requirements for terrorism preparedness and dramatically improve response in the event of a large-scale terrorist attack."
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LLIS Best Practice: Pre-Incident Site Planning: Initiating and Conducting a Pre-Plan Site Visit
"After generating the requirements for the pre-plan, a team of pre-plan developers should initiate contact with personnel from the target hazard site and request initial information. The team should then conduct a formal walkthrough of the site, collecting site data as identified in the pre-plan requirements."
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LLIS Best Practice: Pre-Incident Site Planning: Pre-Planning Leadership
"The pre-planning leadership team oversees and directs all pre-planning activities in the jurisdiction. These responsibilities vary across jurisdictions depending on the disciplines represented in the pre-planning team."
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LLIS Practice Note: Information and Intelligence Sharing: The South Florida Virtual Fusion Center's Assistance during the H1N1 Influenza Outbreak
"The Palm Beach County, Florida, Sheriff's Office (PBSO) initiated the development of the South Florida Virtual Fusion Center (SFVFC) to serve as a collaborative workspace for law enforcement, public health, fire, and emergency response personnel. The SFVFC has provided up-to-date national and local threat information throughout the 2009 H1N1 influenza outbreak."
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LLIS Practice Note: Food Recall Operations: North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services' Utilization of the Incident Command System to Integrate Additional Recall Personnel into Operations
"North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (NCDA&CS) utilized the incident command system (ICS) and unified command to incorporate additional state and local health personnel into a large-scale food recall operation."
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LLIS Practice Note: Emergency Public Information: Greensburg, Kansas, Tornado Responders' Use of the Travelers' Information Station
"Emergency personnel responding to a tornado in Greensburg, Kansas, used a traveler's information station to communicate with residents dispersed by the incident. Personnel tuned transmitters to 1610 AM to broadcast critical information to disaster victims."
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LLIS Practice Note: Field Training: Federal Emergency Management Agency Region VII's Deployment of a Training Team after a Disaster
"Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region VII deployed its Disaster Field
Training Operation (DFTO) to the Area Field Office (AFO) immediately after a tornado
struck Greensburg, Kansas, in May 2007. This enabled trainers to gain a greater
awareness of the nature of the disaster response, to conduct a detailed assessment of
training needs, and to plan field training accordingly."
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LLIS Practice Note: Field Training: Federal Emergency Management Agency Region VII's Adaptation of Training to the Incident Area's Demographics and Needs
"The Federal Emergency Management Agency Region VII Disaster Field Training Operation adapted its training for disaster assistance employees and other responders deployed in Greensburg, Kansas, to include information specific to the location and the nature of the incident response. This enabled responders to apply immediately what they learned in the training, which made the training more useful."
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LLIS Best Practice: Incident Site Safety Planning: Rescue Operations
"Response organizations should prepare for the rescue of lost, trapped, disoriented, and/or injured responders through the pre-incident planning of rescue operations. Rescue operations planning involves the pre-incident dedication of both personnel and resources to the rescue function." This document identifies "pre-planning initiatives for developing and improving rescue operations at emergency incident sites."
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LLIS Best Practice: Volunteer and Donations Management: Donations Coordination Team
"The Donations Coordination Team [DCT] is responsible for coordinating volunteer and donations management operations following an emergency. The DCT serves as a mechanism to coordinate efforts among the voluntary agencies, state and local governments, federal government, the media, and those in need." This document discusses "the role of the Donations Coordination Team (DCT) for managing volunteers and donations during emergency response and recovery operations."
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LLIS Best Practice: Emergency Management Programs for Healthcare Facilities: Emergency Operations Plan: Concept of Operations: Notification
"A healthcare facility's Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) should have provisions for notifying internal and external personnel. Notification operations consist of informing personnel both internal and external to the facility of EOP activation and instructing them how to respond. The actual messages should be developed by personnel in the Planning Section, and approved by the Management Section, if feasible. Information should be presented in simple language, and avoid jargon. Messages should be addressed to the recipient's position in the IMS, not the individual's name or job title. […] Healthcare facilities should routinely test internal and external information management and communication systems for notification through test messages, routine use, drills, and exercises. These tests should evaluate both the information conveyed, as well as the technology used to communicate it. This Best Practice describes what the notification section of a healthcare facility's concept of operations should include."
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LLIS Best Practice: Emergency Management Programs for Healthcare Facilities: Hazard Vulnerability Analysis: Assembling the Planning Team
"This Best Practice identifies which healthcare facility staff and community members should be involved in the hazard vulnerability analysis (HVA) process. Healthcare facilities should begin by assembling a team to conduct the HVA, possibly as a subcommittee of the facility's emergency management or safety committee. All team members should be familiar with the facility's disaster plan. There are two categories of participants: facility and non-facility. Facility participants include clinical personnel, non-clinical personnel, and incident management. Candid feedback from all facility operations and other support staff is necessary to ensure a thorough assessment of the facility."
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LLIS Best Practice: Use of Amateur Radio Operators to Augment Emergency Communications: Amateur Radio Operator Points of Contact (POCs)
"Emergency management agencies should establish relationships with existing amateur radio organizations through a designated POC. These amateur radio organizations can assist agencies during emergencies by providing auxiliary communications capabilities to local responders."
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