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REPORT OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS

HURRICANE KATRINA: A NATION STILL UNPREPARED

Executive Summary

Findings

Recommendations

Pandemic Influenza Planning: A Guide for Individuals & Families

This guide is designed to help you understand the threat of a pandemic flu outbreak in our country and your community. It describes common sense actions that you can take in preparing for a pandemic. Each individual and family should know both the magnitude of what can happen during a pandemic outbreak and what actions you can take to help lessen the impact of an influenza pandemic on you and your community.

It's not flu as usual: What Businesses need to know about Pandemic Flu Planning

This brochure offers guidance on how businesses can:

•  Prepare for pandemic flu in order to maintain business continuity

•  Help protect employees health

•  Work with health officials to minimize disruption

FEMA - Interim Guidance on Continuity of Operations planning for state and local government (.pdf - download now)

National Incident Management System (download file here)

U. S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge today announced approval of the National Incident Management System (NIMS), the Nation's first standardized management plan that creates a unified structure for Federal, state, and local lines of government for incident response.  "NIMS gives all of our Nation's responders the same framework for incident management and fully puts into practice the concept of, 'One mission, one team, one fight,'" Ridge said.