Emergency
Planning
Emergency
planning is critical to the preparedness of our community.
Comprehensive, well-written emergency plans ensure that
our families, workplaces, and emergency workers know their
roles and responsibilities and they ensure an efficient
and coordinated response. Following are general categories
of emergency plans. For a community to be prepared, all
these plans need to be in place:
Personal
and Family Preparedness Plan
This plan is used to ensure the health and safety you
and your family during an emergency. This plan should
describe how you and your family will be self-sufficient
for at least the first three days following a disaster.
It should also identify how your family will communicate
with each other and identify locations where you will
meet if you get separated.
For
More Information
Use these Websites to learn more about Emergency Planning
for any type of a disaster.
American
Red Cross Family Disaster Plan
Department
of Homeland Security – Ready.gov
Washington
State Emergency Management
Family Emergency Preparedness Plan Workbook
Facility
Emergency Plan
This is a plan for how to respond to emergencies in the
workplace and in special facilities such as nursing homes
and schools. The facility emergency plan describes how
an organization will respond to an emergency to protect
the health and safety of employees and customers. This
should include plans for evacuation, shelter-in-place,
first aid, and coordination with emergency response personnel.
CRESA, the American Red Cross, and your local fire department
can assist you with the development of your facility emergency
plan.
Comprehensive
Emergency Management Plans
This is a plan for how federal, state, and local government
organizations and their partners will prepare for, respond
to, and recover from disaster. State law requires that
every jurisdiction in Washington State have a Comprehensive
Emergency Management Plan or CEMP. The CEMP establishes
the general policies and procedures for emergency management.
It also delegates responsibilities for emergency management
among the leadership and the departments of government
agencies and their partners. CEMPs are designed to address
the hazards and vulnerabilities that are specific to the
community. The hazards that we prepare for are described
in the Local Hazards and Disasters
section . CRESA is responsible for coordinating the
development and maintenance of comprehensive emergency
management plans in Clark County.
Summary
of legal authorities for government emergency planning
Federal
Response Plan
Washington
State Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan
Clark
County Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan
Hazard
Mitigation Plan
This plan defines the policies and strategies that a community
will use to reduce it’s vulnerability to disasters. More
information on hazard mitigation planning can be found
at the Hazard Mitigation section.
Continuity
of Operations Plan
This may also be called a “business continuity plan”,
“business resumption plan”, or a related term. The continuity
of operations plan describes how an organization will
restore and ensure the continuous operation of critical
functions and services when they are impacted by a disaster.
For example, because it is a mission critical service,
water providers have plans for how they will provide water
to the public in the event that the supply system is disrupted.
Continuity of operations plans describe how critical systems
will be rapidly repaired. In the event they can’t be repaired
rapidly, the plan defines contingency plans for providing
critical services.
To
learn more about how we serve you, please explore our
web site. If you have additional questions you may e-mail
us at cresa@clark.wa.gov.
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