San Diego County’s Workplace of Emergency Companies earned re-accreditation by the Emergency Administration Accreditation Program. The distinction was introduced this week. After a complete and rigorous overview of 66 requirements of excellence in emergency administration applications and capabilities, the Emergency Administration Accreditation Program granted San Diego County the five-year re-accreditation. San Diego County is one among solely three emergency administration applications in California to obtain this accreditation and is the one program within the state to earn its fourth consecutive accreditation, having earned accreditations in 2007, 2012, 2017 and now in 2023.
The Emergency Administration Accreditation Program, as an unbiased nonprofit group, fosters excellence and accountability in emergency administration, by establishing requirements utilized in a peer overview accreditation course of. County Emergency Companies needed to reveal compliance with 66 requirements in 16 areas, akin to program administration; hazard identification, danger evaluation, and consequence evaluation; hazard mitigation and prevention; planning; incident administration; useful resource administration; communications and warning; coaching; workout routines, evaluations, and corrective actions; and emergency public data.
“The Emergency Administration Accreditation Program requires requirements which outline a excessive performing group, which we’ve got serving the folks of San Diego County,” stated Jeff Toney, Emergency Companies Director. “This honor is a results of years of public security investments made by leaders in our area, the coaching and exhausting work of county and metropolis emergency managers and first responders, and the tradition of collaboration as we reply to and get well from disasters in our area.”
“San Diego County is house to numerous landscapes, lovely seashores, and nice climate. However our area can be susceptible to a wide range of pure disasters, like wildfires, earthquakes, excessive warmth, flooding, and even tsunamis, and others,” stated Holly Porter, Deputy Chief Administrative Officer for the County of San Diego. “The County’s skill to fulfill the requirements required via the Emergency Administration Accreditation Program is affirmation that our County is a pacesetter within the fields of emergency preparedness, mitigation, response and restoration.”
The County’s Workplace of Emergency Companies coordinates the general county response to disasters and is chargeable for alerting and notifying applicable businesses or populations when catastrophe strikes; coordinating the responding businesses; guaranteeing sources can be found and mobilized in instances of catastrophe; growing plans and procedures for response to and restoration from disasters; and growing and selling preparedness in the neighborhood.
Emergency Companies additionally staffs the Operational Space Emergency Operations Heart, a central facility which supplies regional coordinated emergency response. Emergency Companies additionally serves as workers to the Unified Catastrophe Council, a joint powers settlement between all 18 integrated cities and the County of San Diego. The Unified Catastrophe Council coordinates plans and applications all through the County to make sure safety of life and property.
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