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I placed this notice in the Accreditation blog channel because it involves and emergency management / business continuity program evaluation process. RI CANADA has developed a rigorous assessment process that evaluates all entries for the Award of Excellence program. Do you know of anyone's program which qualifies for this award?
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EXCELLENCE CELEBRATED
DRI CANADA has developed a rigorous assessment process that evaluates all entries for the Award of Excellence program. Evaluators follow a code of ethics. Each submission is scrutinized and gauged against a set of standards carefully developed to identify key strengths.The end product is a 'report card' or rating that gives applicants a clear picture of how their plan stands against global best practices. Of course, those entries achieving the highest… |
I just learned that the CSA Z1600 emergency management and business continuity standard may play a part in the accreditation program for Canadian hospitals.
I used the NFPA 1600 standard quite effectively for upgrading a hospital emergency management program before CSA Z1600 was available, so I was quite excited to hear that CSA Z1600 may play a part in the hospital accreditation program. I have requested an article for our PTSC-Online accreditation blog from those who are directly involved and I anxiously look forward to that article and learning the details.
Are you interested in having your emergency management program evaluated by a peer review team and accredited by a recognized organization? Assessing the demand can help make this service available to Canadian entities. Please advise John Ash with IAEM Canada of your interest by Friday October 15 to help make program accreditation a reality in Canada.
In effort to promote a common benchmark process that is peer driven, IAEM Canada has formed a partnership with The Emergency Management Accreditation Program, (EMAP) to bring an peer accreditation process to Canada. The intent is for the EMAP process to incorporate the Canadian Standards Association Z1600 standard on Emergency Management and Business Continuity. The EMAP process, is a cost effective voluntary review process for emergency management programs. Accreditation is a means of…
See the PTSC-Online discussion forum on Canadian emergency management program accreditation for a recent post on a collabotative effort involving IAEM Canada, Canadian Standards Association and EMAP. IAEM Canada would appreciate your comments. See link below.
Attached you will find a discussion paper on emergency management and business continuity program evaluation in Canada. The discussion paper provides background information and options for Canadian emergency management and business continuity program evaluation and accreditation.
Any feedback on the attached discussion paper would be appreciated. PTSC-Online is hoping to provide an update on how a Canadian accreditation program is progressing in the near future.
This is a demonstration article for the accreditation blog. There are approximately 30 Canadians who support emergency management program accreditation and who have been trained as Emergency Management Accreditation Program (EMAP) assessors.
As an EMAP trained assessor myself, I appreciate the value of being trained on how to conduct an assessment of an emergency management program. I also appreciate the model EMAP has developed which makes pursuing program accreditation through EMAP and very economical way to pursue ccreditation compared to some other options.
I added this blog entry for two purposes, (1) to add some material so you can better see how PTSC-Online can work and (2) to call upon all Canadian EMAP assessors to join…
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If you are not familiar with the program which has been very successfully running in the United States for several years to help public sector entities evaluate their emergency management programs, click on their logo (above) and check out their web site. EMAP not only provides resources to help evaluate programs but provides a cost effective accreditation process for those programs which meet the EMAP standard.
Approximately thirty Canadians have been trained as EMAP Assessors and several Canadian organizations and individuals have been working to make EMAP accreditation to the Canadian Z1600 emergency management and business continuity standard available to Canadian public and private sector entities.
The PTSC-Online resources and collaboration tools are available to help make EMAP accreditation available to Canadian entities.
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