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Appendix C Preparedness Checklist
Appendix C Preparedness Checklist
Pages 163-172
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Measuring Emergency Management Preparedness: A Checklist to Determine Your Ability to Use Geospatial Information in Emergency Management Integration Does your emergency operations center (EOC) have geospatial technology available?
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(For FEMA) Have you developed a secure web site with around the-clock contact information for GIS coordinators, their emer gency management counterparts, and their respective backups in each state?
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Do your emergency response professionals understand the capa bilities that geospatial data and tools offer to improve their ability to plan for and respond to incidents? Have you established a training program for your first respond ers and emergency management decision makers on the use of geospatial data and tools in their workflow and decision-making processes?
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Data Access Have you developed relationships through the state GIS coordi nator with the data custodians and established protocols and agreements, where required, to ensure access to and use of the data you require for planning, training, and emergency response activities? Have you developed a methodology to ensure regular updates to those data?
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; Telecommunications lines including phones, networks, and cable; Cell and other communication towers; Transportation systems; Shelters; Dams; Petroleum and chemical storage sites; Hazardous waste sites; Fire departments; Police departments; EMS (emergency medical service) districts; Ambulance services; Educational facilities; Medical facilities; Government facilities; Military facilities; Religious facilities; Long-term care facilities; Nursing homes; Day care centers; Animal control facilities; and Animal shelters?
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Hasyourgeospatialdatateamdeterminedthequalityandusabil ity of the geospatial data gathered for emergency response? Have you worked with your state GIS coordinator to develop an inventory of municipal, county, state, and federal data that you require for use in emergency response?
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Data Improvement Has the geospatial data team identified which data require im provements and which data not currently available need devel opment? Has this team worked with the state GIS coordinator to coordi nate the required work?
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Are your requests for assistance during an emergency tracked in a database and tracked via a GIS application to provide visual analysis of problem patterns, etc.? Have your geospatial professionals developed agreements with geospatial professional teams in adjacent communities or the state, and at the federal level, to determine the data and tools to be used and shared during disasters?
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(For FEMA) Have you developed a secure web site with this in ventory and around-the-clock contact information for each state?
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