Emergency Planning Guide for Utilities

by Samuel Mullen, Francois Le, Jérôme Pagès

Overview

An increase in major natural disasters—and the growing number of damaging events involving gas, electric, water, and other utilities—has led to heightened concerns about utility operations and public safety. Due to today's complex, compliance-based environment, utility managers and planners often find it difficult to plan for the action needed to help ensure organization-wide resilience and meet consumer expectations during these incidents. Emergency Planning Guide for Utilities, Second Edition offers a working guide that presents new and field-tested approaches to plan development, training, exercising, and emergency program management.

The book will help utility planners, trainers, and responders—as well as their vendors and suppliers—to more effectively prepare for damaging events and improve the level of the utility’s resilience. It also focuses on planning needed in the National Incident Management System and ICS environment that many utilities are embracing going forward. In doing so, utilities will be able to improve the customer experience while reducing the impact that damaging events have on the utility’s infrastructure, people, and resources.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781466504851
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/22/2013
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Sam Mullen has more than 30 years experience in utility operations, planning, and management. He is the author of three books on contingency and emergency planning and technical communications, including Emergency Planning Guide for Utilities 1st and 2nd Editions, and Critical Communications: An Operations Guide for Business. After a long career in power system operations and system control, Mullen founded MPS in 1994, a practice working primarily with utilities. Sam consults on a full range of projects involving power system emergencies, EMS and SCADA operating procedures, information technology, business process design, computer applications and controls, communications, and regulatory compliance.

Table of Contents

Introduction and Use of the Guide. Introduction. Past, Present, and Future of Emergency Planning. Looking Back. Where Are We Now? What Can We Expect? Methods and Dynamics of Emergency Planning. Risk Studies and Analysis. Emergency Planning Guidelines. Training and Exercising. Emergency Communications. Special Supplement: Emergency Planning for Public Power Utilities. Exhibits. Exhibits Summary. Index.

Editorial Reviews

A manual that can serve as the keystone for planning, assembling, and organizing "in-house" plans and preparedness programs--addressed to staff and management personnel in utilities, and to those persons in organizations who coordinate operations with utilities. The manual is organized in four main sections; developing the emergency plan; program administration; the corporate emergency preparedness program; and reference materials (an appendix that contains exhibits and forms to support the concepts presented in the first three sections). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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