Two on-line disaster planning and response courses available in October and
November through www.museumclasses.org:

MS 205 Disaster Planning I: Introduction to Disaster Preparedness Planning
Instructor: Terri Schindel
Dates: October 4-29, 2004
Price: $350

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.
Disaster Preparedness and Response Planning (DPRP) outlines procedures for
museum staff and volunteers to follow in various emergency situations.

You will learn how to form a team, dynamics of team participation, on-going
nature of planning, personnel safety, board governance, insurance, and that
plans must be reviewed and updated twice a year and how to accomplish this
review. 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.

MS205 Disaster Planning I: Introduction to Disaster Preparedness
Planning
$350.00 [Add to Cart] [View Cart]

MS206 Disaster Planning II: Writing a Disaster Preparedness Plan
Instructor: Terri Schindel
Dates: November 1 - 26, 2004
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 an 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 DPR Plan 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. Participants will have a written disaster plan for their
institution by the end of the course. Pre-requisite: MS 205 Disaster
Planning I.

MS206 Disaster Planning II: Writing a Disaster Preparedness Plan
$350.00 [Add to Cart] [View Cart]


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