Goal:
Improve your ability to assess the condition of your facilities after a disaster by organizing and training a damage assessment team.

Deliverables:

• Determine who will be members of the damage assessment team and what roles and responsibilities they will have.
• Create structural and non-structural damage assessment checklists for all key facilities.
• Determine key contacts for vendors and suppliers that will be needed to assist in repairs and clean-up.  This includes restoration companies for damaged vital records and other media.
• Create a model site plan that will be used for all facilities to document the damage assessment procedures including utility turn-off instructions, key equipment shut-down, as well as hazard-specific actions to take.
• Train representatives from each site on the content of the plans through development and delivery of a one-day workshop.
• Provide one-on-one counseling of the site plan contents during development.
• Review plans for completeness.