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DHS site a go-to source for EM downloads, advice, training

Emergency Management Alert, January 29, 2008

If you already know about the Lessons Learned Information Sharing network of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), skip to the CSI item and read why pathologists are up in arms over hairnets.

We've known about LLIS for a while; it's just that we're finding it to be increasingly useful of late, especially as The Joint Commission's emergency management standards for 2008 kick in and planners gear up for a 2009 overhaul. There are items on exercise design, post-mortems of disaster situations as seen by the responders, and much more. (As much as we'd like you to click on EMA first, in the selfless interests of national security, we must bow to the superior authority.)

The network's main site, www.llis.gov, offers secure, restricted-access information. DHS says it's designed "to facilitate efforts to prevent, prepare for and respond to acts of terrorism and other incidents across all disciplines and communities throughout the U.S." Along with policy documents (National Preparedness Guidelines, Universal Task List: Version 2.1, etc.) you can mine the following features:

• Lessons Learned: Positive or negative experiences derived from actual incidents, operations, training, or exercises.
  
• Best Practices: Peer-validated techniques, procedures, and solutions that have demonstrated their effectiveness in operations, training, and exercises across multiple jurisdictions or organizations.
  
• Practice Notes: Descriptions of procedures, techniques, or methods that have been adopted by a single jurisdiction or organization to adapt to changing circumstances.
  
• Good Stories: Descriptions of successful, innovative programs and initiatives developed by a jurisdiction that others may wish to emulate.

Note: You must register for this site.

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