Emergency Planning and Business Continuity Dr. Katina Blue 1 st Annual Summit on Safety Leadership Asheboro, NC March 3, 2016
The Scenario An F4 Tornado caused devastating damage to several buildings of your organization. Structures are severely damaged; cars have major destruction; major debris; and casualties. Some buildings have extensive water damage
Emergency Management Business Continuity IT Disaster Recovery Crisis Communication EOP CCP BCP/COOP DR Emergency Planning
Tornado: Emergency Management's Approach Life Safety Asset protection First responders work through unified command to manage the incident
Tornado: Business Continuity’s Approach Continuity of operations; never shut completely down Degraded services Manual work around procedures Assess how long before return to building or services back online
Tornado: IT Disaster Recovery’s Approach A subset of a business continuity planning and includes planning for resumption of applications, data, hardware, electronic communications (such as networking) and other IT infrastructure.
Interoperability
Notification and Communication
EM, BC, and DR are working individually in response to the Tornado, but at some point the roads merge.
How broad (scope) should you plan?
GS§ Emergency response plans Emergency response plans adopted by a constituent institution of The University of North Carolina, a community college, or a public hospital as defined in G.S and the records related to the planning and development of these emergency response plans are not public records as defined by G.S and shall not be subject to inspection and examination under G.S ( , s. 3.1.) FOUO
Validate Your Plan through Exercises Conduct at least annually FREE scenarios available online – /NRF t.htm – data/ /cert_tabletops_combined.pdf Use local resources
Individual and Family Preparedness
Questions…Dialog…Thank You