Any staff who could be involved in emergency planning or response should receive appropriate training.
"With respect to the issue of emergency planning, will this executive order have any impact for the moment?"
Moreover, many states have not yet given the local emergency planning committees the money they need to go about their business.
But effective emergency planning must take into account the worst, not the best, possibility.
The main aim of emergency planning is to reduce risk to people, equipment and the environment.
The only emergency planning amounted to calling 911, one official said.
He said "we'd be much better off" if the state of Massachusetts participated in emergency planning.
It is also responsible for coordinating environmental programs and emergency planning.
His medical background, he says, will also enable him to aid the city's emergency planning.
More fundamentally, it has forced changes in emergency planning and tactics.
