Business & Industry

Emergency Management Guide for Business & Industry

PHPR Comps: 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 2.2, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2; CDC Capabilities Videos and Files( 3.1 MB): 1

http://www.fema.gov/business/guide/index.shtm

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A Step-By-Step Approach To Emergency Planning, Response And Recovery For Companies Of All Sizes

PHPR Comps: 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 2.2, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2; CDC Capabilities Videos and Files( 3.1 MB): 1, 2, 7, 11

http://www.fema.gov/pdf/business/guide/bizindst.pdf

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How to Plan for Workplace Emergencies and Evacuations

PHPR Comps: 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 2.2, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2; CDC Capabilities Videos and Files( 3.1 MB): 1, 8, 11

This booklet provides a generic overview of a standards related topic. This publication does not alter or determine compliance responsibilities, which are described in the OSHA standards and the Occupational Safety and Health Act. Because interpretations and enforcement policy may change over time, the best sources for additional guidance on OSHA compliance requirements are current administrative interpretations and decisions by the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission and the courts.
http://www.osha.gov/Publications/osha3088.pdf

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CDC Public Health Preparedness Capabilities: National Standards for State and Local Planning:

CDC Public Health Preparedness Capabilities:National Standards for State and Local Planning

Taken directly from the CDC:

Brief EXECUTIVE SUMMARY : (click link above to read complete information)

Public health threats are always present. Whether caused by natural, accidental, or intentional means, these threats can lead to the onset of public health incidents. Being prepared to prevent, respond to, and rapidly recover from public health threats is critical for protecting and securing our nation’s public health.
The 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic underscored the importance of communities being prepared for potential threats. Because of its unique abilities to respond to infectious, occupational, or environmental incidents, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) plays a pivotal role in ensuring that state and local public health systems are prepared for these and other public health incidents. CDC provides funding and technical assistance for state, local, and territorial public health departments through the Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) cooperative agreement. PHEP cooperative agreement funding provides approximately $700 million annually to 50 states, four localities, and eight U.S. territories and freely associated states for building and strengthening their abilities to respond to public health incidents.
Evolving Threats and Strengthening the Public Health System
Public health departments have made progress since 2001, as demonstrated in CDC’s state preparedness reports (http://www.cdc.gov/phpr/reportingonreadiness.htm). However, state and local public health departments continue to face multiple challenges, including an ever-evolving list of public health threats. Regardless of the threat, an effective public health response begins with an effective public health system with robust systems in place to conduct routine public health activities. In other words, strong state and local public health systems are the cornerstone of an effective public health response.
Today, public health systems and their respective preparedness programs face many challenges. Federal funds for preparedness have been declining, causing state and local planners to express concerns over their ability to sustain the real and measurable advances made in public health preparedness since September 11, 2001, when Congress appropriated funding to CDC to expand its support nationwide of state and local public health preparedness. State and local planners likely will need to make difficult choices about how to prioritize and ensure that federal dollars are directed to priority areas within their jurisdictions.
Defining National Standards for State and Local Planning
In response to these challenges and in preparation for a new five-year PHEP cooperative agreement that takes effect in August 2011, CDC implemented a systematic process for defining a set of public health preparedness capabilities to assist state and local health departments with their strategic planning. The resulting body of work, Public Health Preparedness Capabilities: National Standards for State and Local Planning, hereafter referred to as public health preparedness capabilities, creates national standards for public health preparedness capability-based planning and will assist state and local planners in identifying
gaps in preparedness, determining the specific jurisdictional priorities, and developing plans for building and sustaining capabilities. These standards are designed to accelerate state and local preparedness planning, provide guidance and recommendations for preparedness planning, and, ultimately, assure safer, more resilient, and better prepared communities.
Public health preparedness capabilities. CDC identified the following 15 public health preparedness capabilities (shown in their corresponding domains) as the basis for state and local public health preparedness:

Biosurveillance	Community Resilience	Countermeasures and Mitigation	Incident Management	Information Management	Surge Management
Public Health Laboratory Testing	Community Preparedness	Medical Countermeasure Dispensing	Emergency Operations Coordination	Emergency Public Information and Warning	Fatality Management
Public Health Surveillance and Epidemiological Investigation	Community Recovery	Medical Materiel Management and Distribution		Information Sharing	Mass Care
		Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions			Medical Surge
		Responder Safety and Health			Volunteer Management