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Welcome
to the April 2007 Issue!
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We're still making the
world safer!
It's been a big month since our last newsletter. There were shootings
in Virginia, the war continues in Iraq with chlorine trucks being blown
up to create weapons of mass destruction, and the NIMS Integration
Center (NIC) revised their timeline for NIMS Compliance to push off the
requirements for completion of the ICS-300/400 class until FY 2008
(September 2008 instead of September 2007), DHS stated that everyone
who has one of the chemicals which will be regulated under the new
Chemical Facility Vulnerability Assessment Regulations needs to at
least get registered in DHS System, and on top of that, we've been
auditing some Emergency Response Plans and found out that the folks who
helped them put them together confused Incident Command with EOC
Management and so their ERPs are not in compliance with SEMS/NIMS (For
you out of California Folks, SEMS was the forerunner to NIMS and is
still being used here in CA.)
As I said, it's been
busy. On the plus side, we've been able to help some of our clients get
upgraded and updated using grant funds, we've built a NIMS Compliance
matrix so that we can help our clients understand where they stand with
relation to NIMS Compliance and how to get fully compliant so that they
will be eligible for future grant funds, and we've been working with
them to develop meaningful exercises that will actually help them
understand not only how SEMS and NIMS work, but also their place in it
and how to make themselves better able to handle an emergency.
This month, we've got a
big issue for you. I've done some good presentations recently on the
Chemical VA regulations and I've got some additional ones coming up.
We've got a great article and some good safety tips. I'll let Bill tell
you a little more about that. As always, we're trying to give you some
bite-sized information that you can remember and use to make your
little piece of the world safer. The bad guys want to make us think
that we're in a fight we can't win. I'm here to tell you that we can
win this fight, and thank you for your help in making this world a
safer place!!!
- Stephen
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From
The Editor's Desk
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Hello!
As you can see we
reverted back to a template that actually works. It took a bit of work,
but I think I've found tools and a template that will actually perform
the way I expect them to - Much the same way our security and
counter-terrorism folks are conducting business: Learn the lessons of
history, and apply them...
"No battle plan
survives contact with the enemy."
It seems to me that that
depends on the nature of the plan and and its ability to be flexible,
with the ability to evolve to meet changing circumstances. With the
number of people who are in arrested in increasing the security of our
nation, with a vast array of talent and ability, we should be able to
formulate a plan that will be both effective and adjustable.
In this newslwtter, we
cover yet another aspect of the enemy, that is, the ability to use
common chemicals as weapons. Proof that we must use the same degree of
imagination and ingenuity in our efforts to defeat our enemies as they
use formulating plans to hurt us.
There is still work to
do, and I am looking forward to advancing towards that objective with
you.
Stay safe!
- Bill
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