Emergency Response
What is Emergency Response?
The immediate actions taken to protect life, property, and the environment when a crisis or disaster occurs, before recovery operations begin.
Terms that appear alongside emergency response
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as emergency response. The number is how many controls name both.
- incident response 14 shared controls
- computer emergency response team 9 shared controls
- cybersecurity 9 shared controls
- vulnerability 7 shared controls
- compliance 6 shared controls
- threat intelligence 5 shared controls
- resilience 5 shared controls
- policy 5 shared controls
Frameworks that govern emergency response
What the standards actually require on emergency response
Requirements naming emergency response across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
The RMP must give the name, phone and email of the local emergency planning and response organisations with which the source last coordinated, the date of the most recent coordination and the federal or state emergency plan requirements that apply;
epa-risk-management-program-40-cfr-part-68::68.180 · § 68.180 Emergency response program and exercises (RMP content) →Whoever offers a hazardous material for transportation describes it on a shipping paper (except for the 172.200(b) exceptions such as certain ORM-D, limited quantity and materials of trade shipments): the identification number, proper shipping name, hazard cla...
us-dot-hazardous-materials-regulations-49-cfr-parts-171-to-180::172.200-205 · Shipping papers: description, sequence, quantity, emergency response telephone number, shipper's certification and retention (172.200 to 172.205) →Physical and technical security can slow responders unless kits are prepared and placed to help them get past it. The organization should create, maintain and secure emergency response kits containing: tools to enter the facility such as access badges or grand...
ansi-asis-wvpi-aa-2020-workplace-violence-and-active-assailant::A.2.5 · A.2.5 Emergency response kits and bags →Set up an incident response programme built around a formal Emergency Response Plan that brings systems and operations back in order of criticality and within set time limits and that allows recovery from a defined list of disruptive events;
awwa-cybersecurity-guidance-for-the-water-sector-american-water-works-association::IR-1 · IR-1 Incident response program with a formal emergency response plan and exercises →Network operators must formulate emergency response plans for cybersecurity incidents and promptly address security risks such as system vulnerabilities, computer viruses, cyberattacks and network intrusions;
china-cybersecurity-law-csl::27 · Art. 27 Emergency response plans, prompt handling of vulnerabilities, viruses, attacks and intrusions, activation and reporting on incidents →Each covered system prepares or revises, where necessary, an emergency response plan incorporating the findings of its assessment and any revisions, and certifies to EPA that the plan is complete no later than six months after completing the assessment (as soo...
us-epa-safe-drinking-water-act-sdwa-cybersecurity-requirements::1433(b) · SDWA 1433(b) Prepare the emergency response plan and certify within six months →Questions people ask about emergency response
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