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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.
October 8, 2010
Assessing Interest in Canadian EM Program Accreditation
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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