Emergency Management Standards
Emergency Management Standards : "While performance standards for emergency management are gaining broader acceptance, the absence of a single standard applied consistently across the state makes it difficult to define baseline capabilities or assess current levels of preparedness. One of the earliest attempts at developing standards for emergency management can be traced back to the Civil Preparedness Guide, published by the U.S. Defense Civil Preparedness Agency-forerunner to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) -in 1972. More than 30 years later, no commonly accepted national standards for emergency preparedness exist. As a result, the essential capabilities that every jurisdiction of a particular size should have or have immediate access to are not understood consistently across the nation. While there have been more recent attempts to establish minimum standards, such as the National Fire Protection Association's (NFPA) Standard on Disaster/Emergency Management and Business Continuity Programs, these standards remain voluntary and have not been formally adopted by local jurisdictions in Washington". (WA State EM Council, A Study of Emergency Management at the Local Program Level, 2004, p. 17)
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