Community Emergency Management, Disaster Operations,
Disaster Planning
Books from ERI International
BLUEPRINT FOR COMMUNITY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT: A TEXT FOR
MANAGING EMERGENCY OPERATIONS (MEO)
By Rick LaValla, Charles Erwin. 406 pages, illustrated, loose-leaf,
3-hole punched.
Individuals do not respond to large emergencies and disaster....the
entire community does! Everyone gets involved. In this publication
all the basic tenets of community emergency preparedness,
mitigation, response, and recovery are presented and examined.
Content is based on findings from Disaster Research. Price
$49.00.
INSTRUCTOR GUIDE FOR MANAGING EMERGENCY OPERATIONS
By Rick LaValla, Charles Erwin. 521 pages, loose-leaf, 3-hole
punched.
This manual will enable anyone with a teaching ability and
a general knowledge of emergency management to teach a 40-hour
course. Keyed to the student text, the instructor is clearly
shown how to use the overheads, slides, videos that are necessary
to teach this course. Classroom exercises and activities are
included. Price $95.00.
INSTRUCTOR KIT FOR MANAGING EMERGENCY OPERATIONS.
Contains 702 overhead masters. Price $450.00.
MEO MINI-SERIES
Most of the chapters from our "Managing Emergency Operations"
text and course are being organized into "stand alone"
teaching modules/packages to support a 1-day or less focus
workshop that you can present. By this summer, we should several
dozen modules available. Currently we offer the following:
Establishing Policy in Emergency Management. Package consists
of a "camera ready" 12-page student handout and
33 overhead masters. Price: $75.00.
Legal Issues in Emergency Management. Package consists of
a 34-page instructor guide, a 15-page "camera ready"
student handout, and 61 overhead masters. Price: $95.00.
Evacuation Planning and Implementation. Package consists
of a 23-page instructor guide, a 25-page "camera ready"
student handout, and 88 overhead masters. Price: $95.00.
ESTABLISHING A COMMUNITY DAMAGE ASSESSMENT PROGRAM AND
PROCEDURES.
35 pages, 8 1/2 x 11, loose-leaf, 3-hole punched.
Contents: Overview of Disaster Recovery; Crisis Monitoring,
Threshold Planning; Organizing for Damage Assessment; Forms
and Instructions. Everything a jurisdiction needs to establish
a damage assessment program, damage assessment teams and procedures. Price:
$35.00.
COMMUNITY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT: PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT AND
STRATEGIES
By Rick LaValla, Charles Erwin. 300 pages. Loose-leaf, 3-hole
punched.
A companion to the MEO textbook. Shows how to produce a
community emergency management work plan. Contains guidance
and step-by-step strategies on how to accomplish all of the
"must do's" if a community is to truly have a viable program.
Translates strategies into 'doable' work plans. Currently
being revised. Price: $95.00.
MANAGING FIELD OPERATIONS: AN INTRODUCTION TO INCIDENT
MANAGEMENT.
A BLUEPRINT FOR COMMUNITY INCIDENT MANAGEMENT (MAKING ICS
WORK IN DISASTER CONDITIONS)
This 8 to 12-hour course is designed to provide the participant
with knowledge about emergency/disaster field operations that
will enable an incident manager (commander) to direct the
work efforts of others in a more coordinated and efficient
manner. Contents include: The Philosophy and Concepts of Effective
Emergency Operations; Blueprint for Community Emergency Management;
The Incident Manager: Job and Responsibilities; Lessons Learned
from the Disaster Research; Emergency/Disaster Resources;
Disaster Planning: Development of an Agency/Organization Response
Plan; Development of Direction and Control; First Notice,
Situation Analysis, Determining Urgency; On-Scene Management
(Command); Role of an Emergency Operations Center; Legal Issues;
Dealing With the Media.
Package contains Instructor Guide ( 188 pages, 8 1/2 x 11,
loose-leaf, 3-hole punched), Student Text ( 83 pages, 8 1/2
x 11, loose-leaf, 3-hole punched, illustrated), and 181 Overhead
Transparency Masters ( Make Your Own Instructor Kit ).
Price: $250.00. ( Additional Student Texts are $20.00 each)
INCIDENT COMMAND SYSTEM (ICS)
Student Text, Instructor Guide, and Instructor Kit. Everything
you will need to teach a 4-hour basic introductory course
to a 40-hour advanced course. Contains all the basic NIIMS
information and tenets, plus a new 13 step approach to organizing
an incident site. Another chapter goes in-depth to incident
action planning, and lots more! This product was initially
developed for a particular state's ICS training program.
Price: Student Text, $35.00. Instructor Manual, 150 pages,
$75.00. Instructor Kit, 374 overhead masters, $295.00.
Contact us for pricing your order.
SCHOOL DISASTER PLANNING
By Rick LaValla, Charles Erwin. 177 pages, 8 1/2 x 11, loose
leaf, illustrated.
Contains everything you will need to have an effective school
disaster planning process, program, plan, and emergency procedures/checklists.
Extensive addendums on emergency action rules by type of emergency.
Addendum on home/family preparedness. Price: $45.00.
DISASTER PLANNING MANUAL: HOW TO WRITE A COMMUNITY DISASTER
COORDINATION PLAN
Draft copy now available. It is in very rough form, but has
lots of great information and strategies. This manual is being
field tested currently in several locations across the country. Price:
$45.00.
EXERCISE PLANNING AND EVALUATION
By Rick LaValla, Charles Erwin and Associates of ERI, 1991.
186 pages, illustrated, 8 1/2 x 11, loose leaf, 3-hole punched,
shrink wrap.
Contains everything you will ever need to know about designing
and presenting exercises. Designed as a student manual for
a 40-hour course and can be used as an independent step-by-step
workbook. Content: Principles of Community Emergency Management;
Assessing Exercise Needs; Purpose of an Exercise Program;
Developing the Exercise; Developing Simulation Materials;
Writing Scenarios, Objectives, Messages and Other Information;
Who Must Be Involved; Logistics and Administration; Preparing
for the Exercise; Starting the Exercise; After the Exercise;
Preparing the Final Report, and lots more! Follows a 16-step
process. Price: $35.00.
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS: A BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY DISASTER
PLANNING MANUAL ( A Corporate Facility Guide On How To Do
It )
By Rick LaVallal. 350 or more pages loose-leaf, 3-hole punched,
illustrated.
This is the student manual for a training course of the
same title. Contents: Disaster Research; Why Plan; Disaster
Planning Process; Hazard Analysis; Mitigation; Resource Identification;
Plan Outline and Content; Developing SOPs and Checklists;
Immediate Response and Care Requirements; Developing Disaster/Emergency
Response Priorities; How to Develop: Warning, Communications,
Emergency Information and Instructions, On-Scene Management,
EOC Operations, Emergency Medical, Evacuation, Mass Care/Emergency
Shelter Security, Protecting Vital Records, Facility Emergency
Shutdown; Training Exercises; Employee Disaster Drills; and
more!
NOTE: Not currently in print. Revised edition due out Fall,
2001
EMERGENCY PLANNING, A GUIDE FOR BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY-
GENERIC
A generic version of the manual/course described above. Contains
additional addendums, resource lists, handouts. Used to support
a 1 or 2 day seminar. Price: $35.00.
DISASTER RECOVERY TESTING: EXERCISING YOUR CONTINGENCY
PLAN
Edited by Philip Jan Rothstein. 6 x 9, perfect bind, paper,
308 pages.
The contributions of thirty leading experts within this
book will provide an in-depth understanding of recovery testing
approaches, options, tradeoffs, resources and pitfalls. 36
chapters (essays) organized into 4 major sections: Managing
Recovery Testing; Test Participants and Resources; Testing
Methods and Processes; What is Being Tested. The intention
of this book is to transform recovery testing from an afterthought
to a powerful, disciplined and efficient development and implementation
tool. Price: $95.00.
Terrorism
BOMB INCIDENT PLANNING AND RESPONSE
By Dave Resing. 52 pages.
This manual is designed to address the policy and planning
issues necessary to respond to the problem of bomb incidents.
Written for facility managers. Contents: Security Planning
(Situation Assessment, Security Policy, Security Plan, Implementation,
Testing, Inspection, Evaluation); Bomb Incident Planning (Command
and Control, Outside Support, Bomb Threat Procedures, Evacuation,
Search Techniques, Education and Training); Postal Bombs;
Security Methods. Appendices include: Sample Security Plan
for Preventing Bomb Incidents, Telephone Bomb Threat Checklist;
Bomb Threat Assessment Guide; Sample Bomb Incident Plan. Price:
$45.00.
Coming soon . . . currently being developed:
Facility Terrorism Threat/Risk Assessment and Emergency Planning
Community Terrorism Threat Analysis Workbook
Terrorism Mitigation (Prevention) Planning Workbook
Field Response Guides.
Community Terrorism Planning.
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