Instructions: Complete the following self-assessment to assess your organization’s resource management preparedness. Does Your Organization.....

Have needed resources identified based on a thorough hazard analysis and the Emergency Operations Plan?

Organize resources by category, kind, and type, including size, capacity, capability, skill, and other characteristics that allows for more efficient ordering and use of mutual aid agreements or assistance agreements?

Develop and maintain standing agreements and contracts for services and supplies that may be needed during an incident?

Incorporate available resources from all levels of government, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector (where appropriate) in resource management planning?

Use standard protocols for requesting resources, prioritizing requests, activating and mobilizing resources to incidents, and returning resources to normal status? Have standard methods for identifying, acquiring, allocating, and tracking resources?

Establish incident perimeters and other measures to protect resources?

Have plans for managing unaffiliated volunteers and unsolicited donations?

Use systems to provide accurate resource status information?

Maintain backup systems to manage resources in the event that the primary resource management information system is disrupted or unavailable?

Use credentialing processes and criteria for ensuring consistent training, licensure, and certification standards?

Have processes for rehabilitating, replenishing, disposing of, and/or retrograding resources?

Follow established mechanisms for collecting bills, validating costs against the scope of the work, ensuring that proper authorities are involved, and accessing reimbursement programs?

Maintain a current and accurate inventory and data on available resources?