Campus Emergency Preparedness
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Transcript of Campus Emergency Preparedness
Campus Emergency Preparedness
Brenda D. Phillips, Ph.D.Associate Dean
Ohio University-Chillicothe
North of ChillicotheMay 20, 2014
The Financial Cost of Not Planning
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Life Cycle of Emergency Management
A Continuum of Disaster
Defining Preparedness
• Planning how to respond to an emergency or disaster, develop capabilities for more effective response (Waugh)
• Common activities:– Hazards identification– Writing plans– Training– Tabletop and Field
Exercises– Public education– Mutual aid agreements– Resource inventories
Preparedness TargetsStudentsChildrenFaculty
StaffNew employees in positions of authority
VisitorsAnimals
People with disabilitiesThe nearby public (tornado shelter)
College Park, MD, tornado, 2001$16.5 million in damage
FEMA News Photo/Jocelyn Augustino
Tornado, Union University, TN2008
• What if the university survives
• But the homes of faculty, staff, and students are damaged?
DisplacementNew Orleans, La., 1-23-06 --
Southern University at New Orleans Officials do a walk though phase A inspection of the Facility FEMA is
providing for them. FEMA is providing the Southern University at
New Orleans (S.U.N.O.) with 45 Modular Buildings to provide
instructional Classrooms, Offices, Cafeteria, and facilities staffed for
student education. MARVIN NAUMAN/FEMA photo
Best Practices for Planning(Quarantelli)
• Disasters are different from accidents and emergencies.
• Planning never stops. • Use an “all-hazards” generic approach.• Coordinate – not command and control.• Anticipated the unexpected, improvise.• Use science, not myths (panic).
Hazard Identification and Risk Analysis(Sources: FEMA IS#1;Thomas et al. 2010; Phillips et al. 2012).
Hazard Identification
• Comerio example
Above:University of Iowa Danforth Chapel.
Iowa River Flood, 2008FEMA News Photo/Greg Henshall
Types of Plans
• Planning Across the Life Cycle– Response Plans/Emergency Operations Plans– Recovery
• Pre-Event Recovery Planning• Post-Event Recovery Planning Mitigation Planning
– Business Continuity Planning– Response Plans/Emergency Operations Plans
Planning is a processPlanning occurs with partners
Local EMALocal EMA
State EMAState EMA
Federal PartnersFederal Partners
Risk Management
Risk Management
First Responders
First Responders
Facilities Management
Facilities Management
ITIT
SecuritySecurity
Faculty, StaffFaculty, Staff
Essential Elements of a CampusEmergency Plan - Disaster
• Emergency Support Functions (ESFs)• Hazard Specific Annexes
– Pandemic? Mumps?– Active Shooter?
• Business Continuity Elements– Downtime– Displacement
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Even the best prepared plans go awry……
• After 5pm, summer school
• Dean on vacation
• Associate dean traveling
• Facilities management traveling
• Key employee on the speaker system had just quit
Photo credit: Twitter…..
Be flexible, train employees, have multiple layers of backups
RESOURCES
Brenda D. Phillips, Ph.D.740-774-7207
Lead Author, Introduction to Emergency ManagementAuthor, Disaster Recovery
Co-editor, Social Vulnerability to Disasters
• FEMA Disaster Resistant University– https://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/documents/
2288• FEMA CPG-101
– http://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/20130726-1828-25045-0014/cpg_101_comprehensive_preparedness_guide_developing_and_maintaining_emergency_operations_plans_2010.pdf
• FEMA Emergency Operations Planning Guidance– http://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/documents/
25975• FEMA Independent Study Courses – free
– http://training.fema.gov/IS/
Continuity Planning TemplateWith a caveat
• http://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/1389194640607-1a5f9a6d6557846f6e5924eea089f798/Non+Federal+Continuity+Plan+Template+and+Instructions.pdf
Case Studies
UC-Berkeley
The Economic Benefits of a Disaster-Resistant
University: Earthquake Loss Estimation for UC Berkeley, Working Paper
2000-02http://
www.escholarship.org/uc/item/78g7j8jq
Mary Comerio
New, National Scope
CERT – Cleveland State University
Community Emergency Response Teams
(CERTS)http://www.ready.gov/citizen-corps
http://www.fema.gov/community-emergency-response-teams
HOMEWORKASSIGNMENT
HandoutESF/EOP from CPG 101-Page 3-6http://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/documents/25975
From FEMA DRU Booklet-Worksheet #1 Planning Team-Worksheet #2 Hazard ID-Worksheet #3 Identify Hazards-Worksheet #4 Profile Hazards-Worksheet #5 Inventory Assets-Worksheet #6 Assess Priority Assets-Worksheet #7 Estimate Losses
Free pdf: http://www.fema.gov/hazard-mitigation-assistance/building-disaster-resistant-university