Participation of Community Organizations in Vulnerability Assessments
Introduction
Everyone has a part in emergency management, and emergency management begins with the vulnerability assessment. Organizations can contribute to the vulnerability assessment by abiding by McGrady and Blanke’s 12 Best Practices (McGrady & Blanke, 2004). These best practices create a prepared and resilient business that will not only make the job of the vulnerability assessment team easier, but will set an example to the community of emergency preparedness. The 12 Best Practices align with the Community Based Vulnerability Assessment (CBVA) framework to increase effectiveness, as well as the Strategic National Risk Assessment to build a resilient nation.
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The CBVA has specific steps for employers and non-households to be assessed, but uses a basic understanding of the organization or relies on an outsider looking in at the organization. The 12BP provides a more in depth assessment of the preparedness level of an organization, and leaves it to the organization’s leadership to collect the data to create the Readiness Index. With a competed Readiness Index, the assessment team conducting a CBVA can very simply annotate the scores of each organization into their assessment and greatly increase the effectiveness of emergency planning. Time, money, and energy will be saved if organizations already have their Readiness Index to present to a vulnerability assessment team. The organization and/or individual can push information up to the government, instead of the government pulling all it needs from the population. This also increases the resiliency of the community through more involvement and information …show more content…
1).” The 12BP can easily tie into the SNRA as a proactive method for smaller organizations to contribute to the larger level needs. While a small organization such as a local elementary school may not be a national concentration point, its use of 12BP will not only serve as an example for other local groups, but will have second and third order effects up the chain to the national level. A prepared nation starts with prepared individuals and organizations; each part must be prepared for the entire thing to be
Introduction
Everyone has a part in emergency management, and emergency management begins with the vulnerability assessment. Organizations can contribute to the vulnerability assessment by abiding by McGrady and Blanke’s 12 Best Practices (McGrady & Blanke, 2004). These best practices create a prepared and resilient business that will not only make the job of the vulnerability assessment team easier, but will set an example to the community of emergency preparedness. The 12 Best Practices align with the Community Based Vulnerability Assessment (CBVA) framework to increase effectiveness, as well as the Strategic National Risk Assessment to build a resilient nation.
12 …show more content…
The CBVA has specific steps for employers and non-households to be assessed, but uses a basic understanding of the organization or relies on an outsider looking in at the organization. The 12BP provides a more in depth assessment of the preparedness level of an organization, and leaves it to the organization’s leadership to collect the data to create the Readiness Index. With a competed Readiness Index, the assessment team conducting a CBVA can very simply annotate the scores of each organization into their assessment and greatly increase the effectiveness of emergency planning. Time, money, and energy will be saved if organizations already have their Readiness Index to present to a vulnerability assessment team. The organization and/or individual can push information up to the government, instead of the government pulling all it needs from the population. This also increases the resiliency of the community through more involvement and information …show more content…
1).” The 12BP can easily tie into the SNRA as a proactive method for smaller organizations to contribute to the larger level needs. While a small organization such as a local elementary school may not be a national concentration point, its use of 12BP will not only serve as an example for other local groups, but will have second and third order effects up the chain to the national level. A prepared nation starts with prepared individuals and organizations; each part must be prepared for the entire thing to be