Building your Pack Plan
Follow our month by month posts to create your personalized Pack Plan!
Month One: Keys to Success
NC State Emergency Management and Mission Continuity welcomes the opportunity to partner with You! NC State is committed to ensuring that our campus community is…
Month Two: Define Your Resources
Defining Your Resources Our first step in planning was communication. How do you reach your leadership, managers and teams in the event of an…
Month Three: Identify Critical Functions
Identifying Critical Functions Month one, we identified who needs to be connected when emergencies happen. This completed updates to phone trees, email groups and started…
Month Four: Supporting your Critical Functions
Build your PACK Ready Plan in a Year (Total estimated time: 4 – 6 hours) In our Year of PACK Ready Planning, we are one…
Month Five: Review your Critical Functions
Review your Critical Functions At the end of each year, it’s a great time to reflect on the past months and see where things stand….
Month Six: Identify your IT needs
Let’s talk tech or IT or Information Technology or all those devices we have come to assume will always be there, be ready and be…
Month Seven: Identify Your Technology Options
Continuing in the Information Technology (IT) realm of planning, in month six, we detailed the IT systems and applications that are used daily to support the services and mission of your unit, and that would be used to drive your critical functions. Now we shift to addressing how to maximize alternate options for IT functions should an event limit access to files or destroy equipment. Additionally, if the IT realm is down on campus, what can you do remotely?
Month Eight: Team Preparedness
Our mantra is ‘make a plan, pack a bag, take action!’ This applies to students, faculty and staff whether you are at home, at work, in the car – everywhere! No matter what your role at NC State, our team members are our most important resource. Individual preparedness is a huge deal as teams are only as prepared as the sum of its parts. If something happens at home and you are unable to come to work, what’s the preventative planning and who back fills you? Can we make sure this person knows that need to cover and knows their roles so they know how to implement them?
Month Nine: Program Plans and Vital Records
Program Plans and Vital Records Even in the height of electronic communications, not all program files are electronic these days and some are very important…
Month Ten: Shelter in Place and Evacuation Planning
Most people are familiar with shelter in place and evacuation planning from grade school. We practiced tornado drills and knelt in the hallways with head…
Final Month: First Round of Pack Plan Complete in One Year!
And that’s a wrap! You’ve built the first round of your Pack Plan in one year!!! If you really think about all the information you…