Geoscience Reference
In-Depth Information
Conducting Self-Assessment
This section presents an informal quiz that you can take as a confidential personal
assessment of you and your community's emergency management risk. The ques-
tions reflect some of the survival capabilities that past experience has associated
with effective CEO participation in emergency management.
Following the questions is a scoring section. The scoring section is designed to
help you decide whether action is needed to reduce your risk.
1. Has your community updated its EOP within the past 12 months?
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Yes
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No
2. Have all response agencies adopted ICS as the single management system for
all incidents?
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Yes
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No
3. Does your community have mutual aid agreements with surrounding com-
munities, standby contracts for needed resources, and other mechanisms to
ensure an adequate response to a major incident?
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Yes
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No
4. Has your community typed its response resources according to capability?
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Yes
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No
5. Does your community work with surrounding communities to improve
interoperability among response resources, communications, and technology?
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Yes
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No
6. Have you personally reviewed your community's EOP within the past
12 months?
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Yes
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No
7. Have you and your senior staff participated in a disaster exercise within the
past 12 months?
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Yes
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No
8. Has your community adopted a comprehensive program to educate the pub-
lic on the risks faced by the community and how to prepare for them?
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Yes
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No
9. Has your community involved the media in planning, training, and exercis-
ing the EOP?
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Yes
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No
10. Does your community have adequate accounting and recordkeeping proce-
dures to document requests for reimbursement from state and federal assis-
tance programs?
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Yes
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No
11. Does your community ensure that the information needed to defend itself in
a disaster-related lawsuit is maintained during an incident?
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Yes
No
