{"id":111,"date":"2010-07-05T15:45:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T19:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drjuliesmithdairyblog.wordpress.com\/?p=111"},"modified":"2011-05-17T11:44:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T15:44:18","slug":"decison-making-paradigm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/2010\/07\/05\/decison-making-paradigm\/","title":{"rendered":"Decison Making Paradigm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 15, Secretary Napolitano of the Department of Homeland Security announced final standards for the Voluntary Private Sector Preparedness Accreditation and Certification Program (PS-Prep).\u00a0 I don\u2019t know the full details of how this certification of private sector entities is to be conducted.\u00a0 However, I was intrigued by the full titles of the two American standards, which are free.\u00a0 (The third accepted standard is by the British Standards Institution.)\u00a0 One is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfpa.org\/assets\/files\/PDF\/NFPA16002010.pdf\">NFPA 1600<\/a>: Standard on Disaster\/Emergency Management and Business Continuity Programs by the National Fire Protection Association; the other is Organizational Resilience: Security, Preparedness, and Continuity Management Systems\u2014Requirements with Guidance for Use (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asisonline.org\/guidelines\/ASIS_SPC.1-2009_Item_No._1842.pdf\">ASIS SPC.1-2009<\/a>) by ASIS International, approved by the American National Standards Institute, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Some key words show up in these titles:\u00a0 Emergency Management, Business Continuity, and Organizational Resilience.\u00a0 Future posts will explore the meanings of these terms.<\/p>\n<p>Going back to the BP-associated oil spill disaster, one could ask whether anyone involved was applying these standards and would it have made any difference.\u00a0 The NFPA 1600 recommends considering potential hazards, vulnerability of the entity to those hazards, and analyzing the potential consequences of those hazards.\u00a0 After considering and analyzing, there must be a decision-making process about which hazards\/consequences to devote resources to address.\u00a0 As the saying goes, only hindsight is 20:20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 15, Secretary Napolitano of the Department of Homeland Security announced final standards for the Voluntary Private Sector Preparedness Accreditation and Certification Program (PS-Prep).\u00a0 I don\u2019t know the full details of how this certification of private sector entities is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/2010\/07\/05\/decison-making-paradigm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15824,15826],"tags":[15839,15850,15871,15874],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-my-thoughts","category-one-health","tag-business-continuity","tag-emergency-management","tag-nfpa-1600","tag-organizational-resilience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}