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Recent Events
Director attends ISO meeting as US representative in Brussels
March 7, 2007 6:26 PM
On March 5 - 7 in Brussels, Bill Raisch, Director of InterCEP, met with other members of the multi-national taskforce of the International Standards Organization (ISO) Technical Committee on Societal Security (TC223) as the U.S. representative. The task force continued its work on developing an international standard on emergency preparedness. The work built upon the earlier International Workshop Agreement (IWA) 5 which was a product of the 19 nation conference that InterCEP hosted in Florence in April 2006.
The goal of the task force effort is the integration of the relevant standards of five different nations to produce a Publicly Accessible Specfication on Incident Preparedness and Organizational Security.
IWA 5 was reported to TC223 in November 2006. For access to IWA 5, please contact Matt Deane at the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
During this conference, more than seventy emergency management and business continuity professionals from sixteen countries around the world gathered for the IWA Forum on Emergency Preparedness. The Conference was held at New York University’s campus in Florence, Italy, and in conjunction with ISO and ANSI (the American National Standards Institute)
The forum was held at the request of ISO and the ANSI which served as secretariat for the forum. InterCEP cooperated with ISO and ANSI in bringing together public and private sector officials to advance international cooperation in emergency preparedness and to respond to the standards community's call for an international deliverable in the area of emergency preparedness.
InterCEP and ANSI continue to partner in advancing preparedness standards. The Center is committed to advancing private sector readiness through integration of its efforts with corporate, governmental and other organizational stakeholders including the standards community. Bill Raisch, Director of InterCEP, serves on the Steering Committee of ANSI's Homeland Security Standards Panel.
InterCEP also hosted the International Public-Private Preparedness Summit (April 27-28) to discuss ways in which public and private sectors can share lessons learned, preparations for pandemics and catastrophes, and ways in which this vital field can move forward in saving lives and enterprise continuity in the wake of an emergency event. The 2nd Annual Florence Forum will take place May 3-4, 2007. Click here to learn more about this event.