National Dialogue on Preparedness Preparedness Capabilities and Assessments

There is no Security Management System,=The Emergency Broad Casting System In The United States of America! If You Have, Satellite TV, Dish Net Work, or So Called, Direct TV, or The Inter Net? The Emergency Broad Casting System

And Has Never Been A Test Given if there was one! ERRRRRRRRRT , ERRRRRRRRRRRT, ERRORS, There is NO TEST of The Emergency Broad Casting System = NON~ The Sick Facts About The Government That... more »

I am currently writing a doctoral dissertation on emergency terrorism preparedness in school districts. The objective is to assess the availability, capability and gaps. Currently, research data shows the lack of community/citizen integration in what the school districts are doing. Other than local emergency responders, how should the neighbors be involved, what kinds of communications need to go out to them to avoid... more »

ICOR believes that change can be made through education. ICOR (The International Consortium for Organizational Resilience - www.theicor.org) is a non-profit (501c3) international education and credentialing organization. Our mission is to develop resilient communities through education. See our Resilient Community model http://www.theicor.org/rescomm.html which was developed based on the United Nations definition of... more »

Develop and implement a Federal Emergency Management Assistance Compact (FEMAC) to support the National Response Framework based on Emergency Support Functions, including the ability for Federal agencies to request and receive assistance from other agencies.
Additionally, the capability for "FEMAC" to link to Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC), so state EMAC members to see pending and ongoing Federal support... more »

The Transportation Security Agency is currently working on preparing a study to look at the differences between the currently accepted chlorine gas dispersion models and the actual results of two catastrophic chlorine releases from railcars. Since such models form an important description of the hazards associated with the transport of chlorine gas by railcar, they provide the basis for any planning for the emergency... more »

Investigate the resources that are available for medical emergencies from manufacturers of materials that are within a three month expiration that might be utilized in a mass casualty event. Rather than discard these materials they could be used before the expiration and save the manufacturers the cost of discarding them.

I recommend that a committee of personnel be established that will have the responsibility of designing exercises that will test the joint coordination of all agencies, i.e.- military, federal, county, and state, and to ensure that the exercise tests all the response and interagency functions that are required when a real-world event actually happens. This committee does not need to be personnel that are already with... more »

I took radiological monitoring course in the 1970's.It was worth it

Coherent FEMA Support Process Policy
FEMA needs to quickly develop and approve a coherent across the board policy on NRC, RRCC, JFO support process doctrine as a solid core to allow credentialing and training that reflect the process and doctrine as it does not exist at present. This needs to be done with input from all levels to promote acceptance and use. As FEMA is basically a Multi Agency Coordination Group supporting... more »

For high profile university communities and other hiogh risk potential targets Include local fire rescue and EMS agency leadership in LEO intelligence inormation regarding threats and risk assessments

Improve industry involvement with governmental agencies in conduting both table top and field exercises using their techniucal expertise personel,

There are probably thousands of jurisdictions in the USA that have no access to Crisis Information Management Systems (CIMS) due to excessive software and I.T. support labor costs. Even those with access to CIMS commonly don’t use them due to the application’s difficulty of use and/or a lack of cohesive training programs.
Counties or States should maintain a CIMS which is available to all first responder organizations... more »

- Federal, state, and local disaster plans should include specific protocols for management of pediatric casualties and pediatric survivors

- Pediatricians, especially those with expertise in pediatric emergency medicine and disaster medicine, should be included in planning at every organizational level

- Disaster teams should include pediatricians and other personnel skilled at evaluating and treating children

Create a matrix of natural hazards and human-caused risk assessment databases and tools. We have HAZUS, ACAMS, DMA2K, Infrastructure Silos. We have new ideas coming from FEMA and DHS all the time, but I have not seen a building on what we have.

It would be very beneficial to organize and have members within a certain region responsible for providing (if information is available) information and assessments from their specific area of residence. This can be in the form of an INTSUM (intelligence summary), and/ or a monthly meeting including designated persons within a particular region. This would then be sent up to delegated persons to disseminate and be able... more »