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Is there a required composition of the Emergency Management Committee?

Any examples are for illustrative purposes only.  

The Joint Commission has no prescribed list of recommended members for the emergency management committee. The organization should consider positions or persons that have primary responsibility and expertise associated with the phases of emergency management, as well as anyone who would have responsibilities in incident command for the organization. This includes mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery activities. For example, if the National Incident Management System (NIMS) is used, there should be representation at least from the areas of command, command staff, operations, planning, logistics, and finance/administration. Membership consideration could come from on-call lists, such as emergency medicine on-call, administrator on-call, house supervisor on-call, medical staff on-call and physical plant content experts on-call.  

Just like the hazard vulnerability analysis (HVA) is used to establish the content of an emergency operations plan, the HVA can also be used to establish the expertise needed for the emergency management committee. Also, if the community emergency operations structure requires certain representation in an emergency management committee, then the organization should take that into consideration when setting up committee representation. EM.01.01.01 requires leaders of the medical staff to participate in emergency management planning activities, there it is recommended to have medical staff participation on the committee. 

 
Manual: Laboratory
Chapter: Emergency Management EM
Last reviewed by Standards Interpretation: May 05, 2022 Represents the most recent date that the FAQ was reviewed (e.g. annual review).
First published date: April 11, 2016 This Standards FAQ was first published on this date.
This page was last updated on April 20, 2023 with update notes of: Editorial changes only Types of changes and an explanation of change type: Editorial changes only: Format changes only. No changes to content. | Review only, FAQ is current: Periodic review completed, no changes to content. | Reflects new or updated requirements: Changes represent new or revised requirements.
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