C2CC Writing a Disaster Plan Webinar 5: Follow-Up - Exercising Your Disaster Response Plan
Channel: AIC & FAIC
Date: 03/09/2015

Recorded: Tuesday, June 4, 2013

The most comprehensive disaster plans cover the four facets of the emergency management cycle—prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery—which correspond to before, during, and after a disaster. If you have been meaning to write a disaster plan but your efforts have stalled, the webinar recordings and course materials found below will help you establish the crucial first steps following a disaster. The Pocket Response Plan, or PReP™, developed by the Council of State Archivists and customizable by all institution types, was featured as a resource that will help you respond when—not if—disaster strikes.

This course followed Risk Evaluation: First Step in Disaster Planning, which provided an overview of the disaster planning process. This course is a part of the Caring for Yesterday’s Treasures—Today series.

Even the best written disaster response plan can be greatly compromised if staff members have not been trained on how to carry it out. Conducting drills and exercises of your institution’s response plan is critical for testing procedures, identifying problems, and discussing solutions. Tabletop exercises, which are dedicated to discussion, and functional exercises, which are focused on hands-on activity, are two especially effective training approaches.

http://www.connectingtocollections.org/archiveresponseplan/