COVID-19 Improvement Plan
Gerald Gifford, GA-CEM
Senior Consultant | Disaster Preparedness, Project Management, Planning, Communication
My team and I are deeply immersed in developing our After Action Report & Improvement Plan (AARIP) for the never ending COVID-19 response. Although since the pandemic is far from over, it’s more like a Still-In-The-Middle-Of-Things Action Report (SITMOTAR). Fortunately, we have the opportunity to implement improvements now, while the response is still occurring, instead of just looking at things in hindsight and documenting corrections that could have been made.
As with all emergencies, communication and information sharing are at the top of the list of things to improve upon. Add to that the political influences and supply chain issues everyone faced, and you’ve got an abundance of policy changes, training, and exercises to develop over the coming years. In your experiences working through COVID-19 at the local level since the beginning of 2020 and continuing today, what conditions or circumstances do you think need to be overhauled, and how would you do it?
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FEMA Field Leadership Reservist Chief of Staff III at FEMA
3 年1) Not being afraid to ask another agency, or level of government for assistance when initial and continual operations human capital resources are low or exhausted. Think back and consider when there should have been a trigger point to say ask and ask for what. I can think back that PH county level needed peopel for receiving and inventotian PPE and ventilator supplies from both SNS and FEMA. 2) What is the plan for care of staff, air ress call it crew rest. How many hours and days can you run before mental fatigue impactseafh individuals’ operations? Before compassion fatigue clicks in? Work with the PH mental. Health, peer support teams, stress dogs, etc. But also staff hard breaks, at how. Any days do they get a day or two off.