Kalamazoo County Office of Emergency Management

Planning / Preparedness

• Preparing Your Family for an Emergency -- an easy 18-point checklist -- designed to help you prepare for that critical 72 hours of self-sufficiency.
   
• Vulnerability Assessment & Emergency Planning Guide - This booklet -- designed specifically of and for Kalamazoo County's businesses, schools, and places of worship -- addresses the 7 major steps involved in creating an Emergency Plan specifically...

1. Awareness
2. Assembly of the Team
3. Assessment of Hazards and Vulnerabilities
4. Creating the Emergency Operations Plan
5. Training & Distributing the Plan
6. Completing Action Plans
7. Review and Modification (updating)

• 2006-2007 Michigan Winter Hazards Awareness Guide -- This 19-page booklet covers the following topics:

1. Winter Hazards Press Release
2. Governor’s Proclamation
3. Winter Safety Tips
4. Winter Hazards Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
5. Preventing Frozen Pipes
6. Preventing Roof Ice Dams
7. Ice Jams/Flooding
8. Preventing Flood Damage
9. Flood Insurance
10. Heat Source Safety
11. Generators
12. Automotive Preparedness
13. Michigan Committee for Severe Weather Awareness Contacts
14. National Weather Service Contacts

• Site Emergency Planning Workbook -- This 95-page Michigan Department of State Police book is intended to help planners for Schools, Factories, Office Buildings, Shopping Malls, Hospitals/Nursing Homes, Correctional Facilities, Stadiums/Arena, Recreational Areas, and Other Facilities develop a comprehensive site emergency plan. It is intended to be used by both very small organizations, as well as large complex organizations. This book is but one of the books which were used by the Kalamazoo Office of Emergency Management to develop the condensed and more user-friendly Vulnerability Assessment & Emergency Planning Guide (described above).

• Emergency Management Guide for Business & Industry -- This 67-page document is another step-by-step approach to Emergency Planning, Response, and Recovery for companies of all sizes. Again, we refer you to our more user-friendly  Vulnerability Assessment & Emergency Planning Guide (described above).
   
• The Family Preparedness Guide (Florida Example)
  
   
• Site Plans -- Help with Site Plans is available from the Kalamazoo County OEM.
   
• Caring Conversations -- A workbook for helping to plan for the end of life.

   

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