Are you having trouble writing that disaster plan you know you should
have? Did your AAM accreditation review ask about your disaster plan? Do
you wonder what should be in it? Or what might be missing from the one you
currently use? Northern States Conservation Center announces its spring
courses in Disaster Planning. The courses are designed so you complete a
disaster plan at the end of the second course. Courses are at your own
pace, on-line, with a weekly on-line chat with the instructor. You can
take the course from any computer with Internet access.
MS 205: Disaster Planning I: Introduction to Disaster Preparedness Planning
Instructor: Terri Schindel
Dates: February 21 - March 18, 2005
Price: $350
The purpose of Disaster Preparedness and Response Planning, DPRP is to
outline for Museum staff and volunteers procedures to be followed in
various emergency situations. Emergencies, disasters, accidents, and
injuries can occur in any setting and at any time, usually without warning.
Museum collections are by their nature both vulnerable and irreplaceable;
even small accidents can harm a collection. Being prepared physically and
psychologically to handle emergencies is an individual as well as an
organizational responsibility.
You will learn how to form a team, dynamics of team participation, on-going
nature of planning, personnel safety, board governance, insurance, that
plans must be reviewed and updated twice a year. You will identify
community partners, fire prevention personnel, emergency medical providers,
government officials, insurance providers, and invite them to participate
in planning. A staff member, and/or a team, will be chosen to serve as an
emergency coordinator(s). You will learn what the team/person's duties and
responsibilities are before, during and after the emergency. The emergency
coordinator will formulate a simple, easily accessible flip-chart of
information pertaining to contacts, personnel locations, immediate action
steps, emergency numbers, signals, sirens, and visual aids if necessary.
With this information you will be ready to actually write the Disaster
Preparedness and Response Plan.
Register for the class by purchasing it at:
http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html
MS206 Museum 206: Disaster Planning II: Writing a Disaster Preparedness Plan
Instructor: Terri Schindel
Dates: March 21 - April 29, 2005
Price: $350
The purpose of a Written Disaster Preparedness and Response Plan is to
educate all participants in their role and responsibilities in an emergency
situation. Each participant from the planning team will be required to
research and fully understand the emergency response and recovery steps.
Participants will learn how to document the collection so you know what
collection information is useful before an emergency. You will identify
important institutional records, collection inventories, research
materials, location of certain items on exhibit and in storage. A copy of
records to be stored off-site will include blue prints, inventory lists,
hazardous materials list, computer back-ups, financial records, community
partners telephone lists, and Emergency Response Salvage Wheel. You will
become familiar with other emergency information and documentation systems,
such as Homeland Security, Red Cross, FEMA, and local government entities.
Participants will receive an emergency preparedness and response supply
list and participants will customize it for specific threats. As you write
the DPRPlan you will also begin assembling supplies. The instructor will
guide you through each step, assist you with checklists forms,
organization, review narratives, edit the final written plan, and guide you
to grant funding for on-site or regional training to conduct practice drills.
Register for the class by purchasing it at:
http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html
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