Resources for Emergency Planning Regarding Persons with Disabilities

I. One primary source of information for disaster preparedness for people with disabilities is available from June Isaacson Kailes’ website: http://www.jik.com/disaster.html.

a. Emergency Evacuation Preparedness: Taking Responsibility for Your Safety, A Guide for People with Disabilities and Other Activity Limitations.
b. Evacuation Issues for People with Disabilities and Other Activity Limitations: A First Responder’s Training Guide (available soon). Contact June at (310) 821-7080 or jik@pacbell.net.
c. Tip sheets for earthquake safety that may have significant applicability for all types of disaster preparedness for people with disabilities.
d. Red Cross Publication: “Disaster Preparedness for People with Disabilities”
e. Report by the California Department of Rehabilitation (1997) entitled: “Disabled People and Disaster Planning.”
f. Fire Information:

i. Fire Safety and People with Disabilities
ii. FIRE STOPS WITH YOU: Removing the Barriers: A Fire Safety Factsheet for People with Disabilities and their Caregivers

g. General Information:

i. Assisting People with Disabilities in a Disaster (FEMA Publication)
ii. ADA Applies to Restoration of Damaged Facilities (FEMA Publications 9/94)
iii. Disaster Preparedness for People with Disabilities (FEMA Publication 6/98)

h. Work Sites:

i. Emergency Procedures Manual for Office Employees with Disabilities (2/97)
ii. Emergency Procedures for Employees with Disabilities in Office Occupancies.

a. New York City’s Guide to Emergency Preparedness for Seniors and People with Disabilities
b. The National Business & Disability Council’s Emergency Evacuation Preparedness Checklist.
c. Red Cross Disaster Preparedness for People with Disabilities
d. FEMA’s Disaster Preparedness for People with Disabilities Tipsheet and Assisting People with Disabilities in a Disaster.
e. Are you Ready? A Guide to Citizen Preparedness from FEMA
f. A Federal Employee’s Family Preparedness Guide
g. Recent articles on the topic of disaster preparedness:

i. The Disaster Newsletter, October, 2002: Disabled Populations.
ii. Kansas University Seeks Evacuation Plans that Account for Disabled (November 20, 2002 from the Lawrence Journal World).

h. FCC Warning Information, Including a Consumer Factsheet
i. ADA Design Requirements for Accessible Egress
j. S.A.F.E.T.Y. First from Easter Seals
k. DisasterHelp.gov
l. EEOC Fact Sheet on Obtaining and Using Employee Medical Information as Part of Emergency Evacuation Procedures
m. Emergency Procedures for Employees with Disabilities in Office Occupancies: http://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/txt/publicatoins/fa-154.txt.
n. Emergency Evacuation Procedures for Employees with Disabilties: from the Job Accommodation Network (JAN)
o. Wheeling to Fire Safety: booklet from the Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association to plan ahead for emergencies.
p. Fire risks reports and Fire Safety Directory from the U.S. Fire Administration.
q. HELPU Fire and Life Safety: offers many online documents advising people with disabilities on disaster mitigation, preparedness and safety.
r. DP2: Disabled People and Disaster Planning: addresses earthquake safety, but also applies to other kinds of disaster preparedness.
s. Disaster Planning Information and Suggestions for Persons with Disabilities and Those Assisting Them: offers information on needs for people with disabilities in emergency planning and disaster management.
t. Basic Tips in Emergency Preparedness for Seniors and People with Disabilities: contains some checklists and information on emergency preparedness.

June Isaacson Kailes
Disability Policy Consultant
Phone 310.821.7080
Fax 310.827.0269
jik@pacbell.net
www.jik.com

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