The Development of the Emergency Management Coordinator's Handbook.
Abstract
The Emergency Management Coordinators' handbook was developed to provide guidance to county and local emergency management coordinators with respect to all aspects of job performance. The manual was developed using systems analysis techniques. The job of emergency management coordinator was reviewed from a systems standpoint. In writing this manual, the total environment in which today's emergency management coordinator functions was taken into consideration. This included political climate, technological considerations, finding limitations and public opinion ramifications. A system was developed which separated the job of the emergency management coordinator into 40 specific tasks. A research project was planned, developed and initiated which resulted in assembling information, assigning performance objectives and developing a recommended test method for each task. A study was planned and developed and then undertaken to provide information on and from the local emergency management coordinators. The similarities of rural and urban counties having full-time, part-time and volunteer emergency management coordinators whose emergency management programs were at varying stages of development. Based on the information gathered through these studies, the manual was developed to provide these coordinators with rapid access to information in the following five areas: (1) Leadership, (2) Training, (3) Plans, (4) Operations, and (5) Administration.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 1980
- Accession Number
- ADA082454
Entities
People
- Donald F. Taylor
- Hope R. Emerich
- William F. Karl