Introduction

The WCMC Emergency Management Tool is a web-based system that was created to help departments prepare for those adverse events that we call a disaster. Disasters can be wide in scope (earthquake, fire, pandemic, terrorism, civil disturbance). Disasters can also be quite local in scope (failure of your hard drive!).

The goal of business emergency planning is to enable us to continue WCMC’s “business” (teaching, research, and patient care) despite any disaster that befalls us. If a severe disaster rendered us unable to continue, our goal would be to resume as much teaching, research, and patient care as possible within a very short time.

This WCMC Emergencey Management Tool will guide departments, step-by-step, to create a business emergency plan. Your plan will identify:

• ACTION ITEMS that can be done, starting now, to lessen the impact of a disaster, and to put us in a better position to continue functioning.
• INFORMATION AND STRATEGIES that will be needed during and after the event to enable a rapid recovery.

The Weill Cornell Medical College Emergency Management Tool is designed for departmental business emergency planning. "Departmental" is loosely defined as any unit of the campus: an academic department, an organized research unit, or an administrative support unit. The tool is flexible.

The Weill Cornell Medical College Emergency Management Tool is easy-to-use and requires no advance training. However, we recommend that you begin your project by inviting Environmental Health and Safety to conduct an orientation for your planning group.

The Emergency Management Tool is available online at http://ready.med.cornell.edu

A CWID is needed to log into the system. To request access, send a request to ready@med.cornell.edu.