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LLIS Best Practice: U.S. Multi-Hazards Used in Support of Utah Seismic Safety Legislation
"The State of Utah has recently taken important steps to reduce the vulnerability of schools to damaging earthquakes, as well as addressing its Unreinforced Masonry (URM) building stock. U.S. Multi-Hazards (Hazus-MH) has played an important role in these initiatives. The model has sharpened the focus on the vulnerability of schools in this region to damaging earthquakes. Specifically, Hazus-MH has been used to estimate losses and potential casualties from scenario earthquakes in a region that is among the most susceptible in the U.S. to seismic activity. The Wasatch Front region of Utah is an extremely active seismic zone that experiences approximately 700 earthquakes per year. Though many of these temblors are less than 3.0 on the Richter magnitude scale, a 7.0 earthquake will occur roughly once every 350 years along the central portion of the Wasatch Fault. The last large quake along the fault occurred between 400 and 600 years ago. The Wasatch Front is home to Utah's most populous counties, including the counties of Salt Lake, Utah and Davis. More than 80 percent of Utah's population is located in areas that are subject to large earthquakes. Although Utah has been a national leader in incorporating seismic design into modern building codes, the seismic threat was not widely recognized in Utah until the mid-1970s. As a result, many (±185,000) of the buildings in the area are 'Unreinforced Masonry Buildings' or 'URMs,' which are brick and mortar structures that are not reinforced by steel, and tend to be brittle and inflexible during earthquake events."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2015-09-22
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LLIS Environmental-Community-Labor Process Safety: Promising Practice: Best practices examples; Safer and More Secure Chemicals and Processes
" Some facilities that formerly filed Risk Management Plans (RMP) with the Environmental Protection Agency no longer do so because they have removed extremely hazardous substances. In surveys, some cite information they learned through the process of complying with the RMP program as a motivating factor in making the changes. These facilities are located across the USA. Attached is a list of more than 550 example water and wastewater treatment facilities that have removed gaseous chlorine or other toxic gasses from their disinfection practices. These are understood to be sample facilities; many others have made such changes. Many drinking water facilities switch to sodium hypochlorite, often generated on-site. Some wastewater facilities make the same change, while others switch to ultra-violet light disinfection. Wastewater facilities that remove gaseous chlorine typically remove anhydrous sulfur dioxide gas as well. Leading bleach manufacturers have also removed catastrophic chemical hazards by going to a process that does not accumulate bulk amounts of chlorine gas at any point, including transportation. These bleach manufacturers include: Odyssey Manufacturing (Tampa, Fla.); BleachTech (Seville, Ohio and Petersburg, Va.); Kuehne Chemical (Delaware City, Del.); FSTI (Greenville, Texas); Buckman's (Pottstown, Pa.); Allied New Technologies, (Fort Pierce, Fla.); and KIK (Denver, Colo.). Also attached are some twenty types of industries in which some facilities have removed extremely hazardous substances, based on prior surveys. Avoiding the presence of chemical hazards through the use of alternate processes is a fundamental safety and security practice."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2014
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LLIS Best Practice: Public Health Software Program for Medical Patient Data Tracking, Situational Awareness and Services Rendered During Major Response Events
"Provides information on a software program developed in-house by the Hidalgo County Health and Human Services Department (HCHHSD) in Texas to track patient flow, medications dispensed, and services rendered during Operation Lone Star characterized as one of the largest humanitarian events in the United States. There are very few tailored software products that are economically feasible and available to local health departments tasked with responding during local emergency response events that potentially involve the need to track patients, identify services rendered, quantify medications dispensed, and all be available in real-time for decision makers and support staff in the Emergency Operations Center. This Best Practice reviews a system developed by the Hidalgo County Health and Human Services Department used during the largest humanitarian event in the United States called Operation Lone Star. The system allows for real-time large scale patient information sharing between the first responders at the POD sites, Emergency Operations Center, and facilitates overall tracking of services, resources balancing, and provides a centralized data source of patient information being assessed in a large scale operation."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2012-11-26?
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LLIS Best Practice: Mass Evacuation Reception Planning: Resource Management Issues after a Nuclear Incident
"A nuclear incident in an urban area would likely cause a spontaneous mass evacuation from the incident area and its surrounding areas. Jurisdictions adjacent to the nuclear incident would become critical evacuation routes or destinations for the urban area's residents. As a result, receiving jurisdictions could experience a significant population surge after a nuclear incident in an urban area. This surge could quickly deplete the critical assets and resources of the receiving jurisdictions and overwhelm local emergency personnel before significant Federal and State assistance could arrive."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2012?
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LLIS Best Practice: Special Needs Registries: Registration Processes
"The registration process is critical for the success of a special needs registry. This process presents an opportunity for jurisdictions to provide information to and solicit information from registrants. In many cases, this exchange of information happens only once per year. Jurisdictions must use this opportunity to communicate essential information about the registry to individuals. Jurisdictions must also have an effective method for soliciting information from registrants."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2011-08-26
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LLIS Best Practice: Special Needs Registries: Information Collection, Confidentiality, and Maintenance
From the Purpose: "This Best Practice describes ways to collect, secure, and maintain information for special needs registries." From the Summary: "The process of collecting, securing, and maintaining information is essential for special needs registries. Jurisdictions rely on information from registrants to gain a better understanding of the needs of their populations with functional needs and to facilitate planning efforts. In order to operate a registry effectively, jurisdictions must develop methods of soliciting information from individuals while ensuring that the information remains confidential, and keeping information as up-to-date as possible." From "About This Best Practice": "This Best Practice is part of the Special Needs Registries Best Practice Series. It provides information about issues that are important to consider in collecting, securing, and maintaining information for special needs registries. This Best Practice consists of the following sections: 1.) Information Collection; 2.) Information Confidentiality; and, 3.) Information Maintenance."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2011-08-12
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LLIS Best Practice: Special Needs Registries: Overview of Registry Issues
From the Summary: "A special needs registry is commonly a list of individuals within a jurisdiction who require assistance before, during, or after an emergency. Persons with disabilities or other functional needs often voluntarily submit either residential, medical, functional, or social background and contact information to their jurisdiction's registry so that emergency management, response, and other personnel can better assist them during an emergency."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2011-08-01?
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LLIS Best Practice -- Mass Evacuation Reception Planning: Overview of Planning Issues After a Nuclear Incident
"A nuclear incident in an urban area would likely cause a spontaneous mass evacuation. Jurisdictions adjacent to the urban area would become critical evacuation routes or destinations for residents of the affected area after a nuclear incident. A spontaneous mass evacuation could quickly overwhelm local emergency response agencies in most adjacent jurisdictions. Pre-incident planning can help jurisdictions adjacent to urban areas prepare for, respond to, and recover from the consequences of an unanticipated population surge after a nuclear incident. This overview document is part of the Mass Evacuation Reception Planning Best Practice series. This Best Practice series supports the pre-planning processes of jurisdictions by providing information on the effects that jurisdictions adjacent to a nuclear incident area will likely experience in the first hours or days following an incident. These Best Practices describe the major issues that emergency managers and responders may face when managing a spontaneous mass exodus from an urban environment. This series builds upon the principles of mass evacuation planning for natural hazards, particularly related to incident management, transportation, and mass care. Finally, this series is based on a terrorist detonation of an improvised nuclear device or nuclear device up to 10 kiloton (KT) yield."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2011-02
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LLIS Best Practice: Radiological Dispersal Device Incident Response Planning: Training and Exercises
This document "details training resources and exercise initiatives that emergency response organizations can use to help prepare emergency response staff members for a radiological dispersal device (RDD) incident."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2008
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LLIS Best Practice: Emergency Management Programs for Healthcare Facilities: Hazard Vulnerability Analysis: Comparing and Prioritizing Risks
"This Best Practice outlines the necessary considerations for comparing and prioritizing the risks that may be faced by a healthcare facility. Risk is defined as the potential impact that any given hazard may have on a particular organization. Hazards should be classified for risk from high to low based on their potential to disrupt the facility's operations. The rating will estimate the possible impact of a specific hazard on the healthcare facility."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2008
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LLIS Best Practice: School Emergency Management Planning: Overview
From the Purpose: "Provides an overview of core principles of emergency management planning for schools." From the Summary: "School administrators should work with local emergency responders to develop emergency management plans (EMP). A comprehensive EMP should account for possible hazards that could impact the school and should incorporate the prevention, preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation phases of emergency management. Because schools are integral parts of their communities, their EMPs should be coordinated with the local emergency management community." From the Description: "Pre-incident emergency management planning is essential to prepare for the diverse threats that confront schools. An EMP can help a school identify and address hazards, train and prepare staff for emergencies, coordinate procedures with emergency responders, and expedite recovery efforts. [...] This Best Practice series provides school administrators and emergency responders with methods, illustrations, and resources to develop and improve a school EMP. The series is tailored to assist administrators in developing emergency plans for individual schools. Many of these concepts are also relevant at the school district level. These Best Practices do not constitute an exhaustive list of emergency management planning concepts; they should be viewed as supplemental resources when designing a comprehensive, all-hazards school EMP."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2007-10-05?
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LLIS Best Practice: Shelter Operations: Pet-Friendly Shelters
From the Purpose: "Outlines the essential issues that jurisdictions should consider when developing plans to provide pet-friendly sheltering for people before, during, or after an emergency that requires a large-scale evacuation." From the Summary: "Evacuation and sheltering operations inevitably involve endangered people who own pets, but most emergency shelters do not accept pets due to health and safety regulations. If there is no opportunity to bring their pets with them to safety, some pet owners will refuse to evacuate or will delay evacuation. According to a Fritz Institute survey, approximately 44% of the people who did not evacuate for Hurricane Katrina stayed, at least in part, because they did not want to leave their pets behind. Pet-friendly sheltering is one of the most common methods of providing emergency accommodations for pet owners and their animals. A pet-friendly shelter is a public human emergency shelter that is located within the same area or facility as an emergency shelter for pets. These shelters typically allow pet owners to take care of their own animals, reducing the shelters' logistical and staffing requirements. The presence of petfriendly shelters can increase the likelihood that endangered pet owners will evacuate to safety with their animals during an emergency. This document outlines the essential issues that jurisdictions should consider when developing plans to establish pet-friendly emergency shelters."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2007-09-21?
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LLIS Best Practice: Public-Private Partnerships for Emergency Preparedness: Resource Management and Sharing
From the Purpose: "Discusses how public-private partnerships develop plans and procedures to manage resources shared between the public and private sectors during emergency mitigation, response, and recovery operations." From the Summary: "Sharing resources among the public and private sectors helps responders meet response and recovery challenges by supplementing existing inventories. As evidenced by the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, and Hurricanes
Katrina, Rita, and Wilma, large-scale incidents can quickly deplete response resources. To
backfill these resources, public-private partnerships can develop plans to fill critical gaps in
personnel, equipment, and expertise to respond to and recover from emergencies."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2006-02-24?
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LLIS Best Practice: Public-Private Partnerships for Emergency Response: Emergency Communications
From the Summary: "Both the public and private sectors mobilize resources and take act respond to and recover from emergencies. However, public and private sector groups often fail to communicate effectively in order to coordinate these efforts. Established methods of emergency communication between the public and private sectors promote coordinated response and recovery efforts and help ensure that informed decisions are made across sectors."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2006-02-24?
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LLIS Best Practice: Public-Private Partnerships for Emergency Preparedness: Information Sharing
From the Description: "The National Strategy for the Physical Protection of Critical Infrastructure and Key Assets identifies sharing information like threat notifications and proprietary information between the public and private sectors as a national objective. Privately owned critical infrastructure and businesses may be targets for terrorist attacks and require rapid notification of emerging or established threats to plan and respond effectively. Public sector planning and emergency response efforts benefit from access to private sector information like facility layouts, storage facilities, or crisis management teams' contact information. Likewise, public sector emergency response plans and related information can inform the private sector's own planning processes. This Best Practice examines ways for public and private sector partners at the state and local levels to develop procedures and/or networks for sharing emergency planning and preparedness information."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2006-02-24?
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LLIS Best Practice: Public-Private Partnerships for Emergency Preparedness: Developing Partnerships
"Public and private sector groups often have limited or ineffective partnerships that fail to coordinate all-hazards operations, interests, assets, and capabilities across sectors. Misperceptions and a lack of trust between the two sectors in the prevention, mitigation, planning, response, and recovery stages can prevent or inhibit the establishment of effective partnerships necessary to achieve common preparedness goals. Public and private sector groups must engage in a concerted, enduring effort to build effective partnerships with each other to coordinate emergency prevention, preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery efforts."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2006-02-24?
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LLIS Best Practice: Incident Site Safety Planning: Personal Protective Equipment
From the Purpose: "Discusses measures for preventing the incorrect or non-use of personal protective equipment (PPE) at large-scale incident sites." From the Summary: "Site safety requires that all personnel at an incident scene wear the appropriate PPE when operating within hazardous areas. Meeting this requirement becomes more difficult during large-scale and/or multi-hazard disasters. This Best Practice identifies key elements that jurisdictions should address when planning for PPE use at large-scale incident sites, including PPE acquisition, PPE training, general site management, and post-incident PPE maintenance." From the Description: "PPE encompasses gear that protects one's eyes, face, body, ears, feet, hands, and respiratory system. It also includes equipment such as personal alert safety systems (PASS) and other miscellaneous safety-related apparel, like lifesafety rope. The purpose of PPE is to shield or isolate its user from hazards that may be encountered during an emergency response. PPE is necessary at any incident that poses an immediate threat to life, commonly known as an 'Immediately Dangerous to Life or Health' (IDLH) environment. [...] This Best Practice reviews PPE use during past large-scale incidents and provides preplanning information jurisdictions can utilize when developing or updating their PPE caches and general PPE procedures."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2005-09-02?
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LLIS Best Practice: Incident Site Safety Planning: Overview
From the Summary: "Site safety measures protect the health and well-being of emergency responders operating at an incident site. Response organizations should conduct pre-incident site safety planning to facilitate safe operations during incident response and recovery efforts."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2005-09-02
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LLIS Best Practice: Volunteer and Donations Management: Establishing a Volunteer Reception Center
"Following an emergency, the number of unaffiliated volunteers who arrive on-scene can overwhelm an agency that is not prepared to manage them. Emergency planners should have plans to establish a Volunteer Reception Center near the disaster area to manage and utilize unaffiliated volunteers. If managed effectively, unaffiliated volunteers can be a valuable resource during an emergency."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2005-08-05
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LLIS Best Practice: Volunteer and Donations Management: Public Information and Education
From the Summary: "Emergency managers and local voluntary agencies should work to educate the public about the most effective ways to donate or volunteer following an emergency. Without proper guidance before an emergency, mass amounts of unsolicited donations and unaffiliated volunteers can hinder response and recovery efforts."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2005-08-05
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LLIS Best Practice: Volunteer and Donations Management: Plans and Strategies
"Volunteer and donations management plans should be developed by each state to prepare for an emergency. In the event of a major emergency, an influx of unaffiliated volunteers and unsolicited donations will hinder response operations unless planned for and managed effectively by the state. The state serves the responsible agency for volunteer and donations management operations."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2005-08-05
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LLIS Best Practice: Local Anti-Terrorism Information and Intelligence Sharing: Dissemination
From the Summary: "Local jurisdictions that are building mechanisms for information and intelligence sharing should also establish processes for dissemination. These processes help determine the access to and proper use of classified, sensitive, or proprietary information and intelligence at the local level. Well-defined dissemination processes and protocols foster trust among public and private entities that the information they share is being transmitted in a secure and consistent manner. This trust encourages these entities to share their relevant information, increasing the flow of terrorism-related information across the local public safety community."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2005-05-25?
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LLIS Best Practice: Local Anti-Terrorism Information and Intelligence Sharing: Information Sharing Overview
"Information sharing is the process by which raw data are collected and disseminated among relevant agencies or individuals. Information sharing helps inform public safety officials of the terrorist threats they face so that they can take the appropriate measures to address those threats. Jurisdictions can employ local law enforcement agencies, fusion centers, or information sharing networks as mechanisms or organizational structures to share terrorism-related information."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2005-05-25
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LLIS Best Practice: Local Anti-Terrorism Information and Intelligence Sharing: Intelligence Support for Response Operations
From the Description: "If a terrorist attack occurs, the IC and senior response agency officials need a variety of information and intelligence products to increase their situational awareness and coordinate response operations effectively. This intelligence support is not tactical, as these officials should already have well-defined procedures for responding on-scene to the incident. Rather, the intelligence support function involves providing operational, or strategic, intelligence products that can guide these senior officials in making strategic and planning decisions on long-term response, recovery, and resource allocation. […] The intelligence support function also involves preventing irrelevant or uncorroborated information from being disseminated to senior response officials during a major incident. In such incidents, officials can potentially be overwhelmed with conflicting or uncorroborated information from a variety of sources. To make informed decisions, they need reliable information and intelligence that has been vetted and validated. The intelligence support entity should therefore attempt to resolve inconsistencies or conflicting information before transmitting it to these senior officials. It should also be capable of verifying information and intelligence if asked to do so."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2005-05-25?
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LLIS Best Practice: Local Anti-Terrorism Information and Intelligence Sharing: Information Sharing Networks
"An information sharing network is a group of agencies and entities that share terrorism-related information directly with each other. A network structure composed of local public safety agencies, government officials, and private security officials enables the rapid, point-to-point dissemination of information. This information sharing mechanism is grounded in cooperative relationships among officials from these entities. To establish an information sharing network, a jurisdiction must gain the support of a wide range of public and private entities."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2005-05-25
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LLIS Best Practice: Pre-Incident Site Planning: Pre-Planning Developers
From the Purpose: "Review the roles and functions of the pre-planning developers within the pre-planning team structure." From the Summary: "Pre-plan developers are responsible for collecting and formatting information for the pre-incident site plans." From the Description: "Pre-plan developers should be junior- to mid-level officials from the primary pre-planning discipline(s). For jurisdictions using fire/HazMat pre-planning teams, pre-plan developers will be fire/HazMat personnel. For jurisdictions using multidisciplinary pre-planning teams, pre-plan developers should represent each of the core disciplines involved in the pre-planning process." From the Description: "Pre-plan developers should be junior- to mid-level officials from the primary pre-planning discipline(s). For jurisdictions using fire/HazMat pre-planning teams, pre-plan developers will be fire/HazMat personnel. For jurisdictions using multidisciplinary pre-planning teams, pre-plan developers should represent each of the core disciplines involved in the pre-planning process. The roles of the pre-plan developers include: 1.) Conducting walkthroughs of target hazard sites; 2.) Collecting pre-plan information during site walkthroughs; and 3.) Converting site information into properly formatted pre-plans/target folders."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2005-02-25?
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LLIS Best Practice: Crisis Communications Planning: Pre-Packaging Informational Materials
From the Purpose: "Provides Public Information Officers (PIOs) and Public Affairs Officials (PAOs) with guidance on preparing pre-packaged informational materials for distribution to the public during an emergency." From the Summary: "During an emergency response, incident managers will need to provide the public with basic information describing the nature of the incident, communicate risks and dangers to the public, and provide guidance on protective actions and ways to avoid risks. By preparing informational materials in advance of an emergency, PIOs will have information and guidance available for immediate distribution to the public at the start of the crisis." From the Description: "PIOs and PAOs can begin preparing informational materials for public distribution during emergencies as part of their crisis communications planning and preparedness activities. This Best Practice reviews important considerations when pre-packaging and pre-selecting the following types of materials: 1.) Fact Sheets; 2.) Press Releases; 3.) Pamphlets and Brochures; 4.) Maps; and, 5.) Diagrams and Illustrations."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2005-02-04?
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LLIS Best Practice: Crisis Communications Planning: Overview
"Public communication is a critical response function following a terrorism incident, natural disaster, or other major emergency. Pre-incident planning, coordination, and preparation will improve the ability of public safety, public health, and healthcare organizations to communicate effectively with the public during the response and recovery to an emergency."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2005-02-04
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LLIS Best Practice: State and Local Government Continuity of Operations Planning: Training, Tests, and Exercises
"A COOP [continuity of operations] plan must include a regular TT&E [training, tests, and exercises] schedule. Familiarity with COOP plans and procedures can be fostered through tests, orientation, training, table-top exercises, and fullscale exercises. TT&E can test the effectiveness of COOP plans and ensure efficient COOP plan implementation. An agency head or lead organization should eventually evaluate the COOP plan and certify it when satisfied that the agency can adequately implement it."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2005?
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LLIS Best Practice: Pre-Incident Site Planning: Emergency Response Requirements
From the Description: "Using an all hazards approach, the pre-planning team should estimate the personnel and materiel (equipment, vehicles, etc.) requirements for incident responses at target hazard sites. Pre-fire planning often involves assessing the resources needed for fire emergencies at selected sites. Because of the multi-disciplinary nature of terrorist incidents and other major emergencies, terrorist incident pre-planning should extend this practice to other disciplines. The result should be recommendations for the number of personnel, unit types, and specific vehicles/equipment required by fire, EMS [Emergency Medical Services], law enforcement, and other responder disciplines. […] In addition to common response assets such as fire engines, ambulances, and command vehicles, pre-planners should consider the need for non-traditional assets. These may include: [1] Public works vehicles [2] Sand trucks [3] Cranes and other heavy equipment [4] Tow trucks [5] Buses and other forms of mass transportation Estimating the requirements for different levels of involvement allows responders and incident commanders to determine what resources may be necessary for a given incident. By estimating response levels for a target hazard site, pre-plans can identify potential resource shortfalls and can highlight areas where the jurisdiction may require additional resources. Pre-identifying these potential shortfalls and taking steps to mitigate them (e.g. through memoranda of understanding and mutual aid) can significantly improve response capabilities."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2005?
