Tips for Working with Emergency Responders Available

This year, make a resolution you can keep: meet your local emergency responders. In any major emergency, you will be working with local emergency responders to save and secure your institution. If you have a good relationship with local emergency responders and know how their systems and practices work, you can help them keep your staff and collections safe. How do you initiate the critical first step? The Heritage Emergency National Task Force can help with the new poster, Working with Emergency Responders: Tips for Cultural Institutions.

Developed as part of the Lessons Applied: Katrina and Cultural Heritage initiative, the poster lays out direct instructions on how to find and build relationships with local emergency responders, what responders need to know to better protect cultural institutions, and how to interact with emergency response professionals before, during, and after an emergency.

This full-color poster is available for $2.00 each for orders up to 10 at heritagepreservation.org/catalog. For orders of more than 10, please call 888-388-6789. The Tips can also be downloaded free from the Heritage Preservation Bookstore as a 5-page, 8-1/2” x 11” booklet in PDF.

The poster was a product of Lessons Applied: Katrina and Cultural Heritage, a project of the Heritage Emergency National Task Force, cosponsored by Heritage Preservation and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Lessons Applied was made possible by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Bay and Paul Foundations. Heritage Preservation’s work with emergency managers is supported by Fidelity Investments through the Fidelity Foundation.