Unit Assessment Program

The Department of Emergency Management complements Unit Emergency Planning by offering Unit Assessments.

The Unit Assessment Program is designed around best practices. It is used by Florida Atlantic University’s Department of Emergency Management to assess the readiness and emergency program level for unit-level programming elements. This Unit Assessment Program assesses core areas for effective, intentional, and comprehensive unit-level emergency programming. These programmatic elements serve to build, sustain, and elevate unit-level readiness. The effectiveness of core areas and the units in which they are embedded is measured and mapped. The process for developing categorical ratings follows various research and models that are centered on a numerical scale.

These sessions assess:

• Facility and unit layout and design

• Operations, occupancy, and procedures

• Unit personnel’s special skills and abilities

• Unit-specific inter/intra-dependencies

Request a Unit Assessment

Due to its extensive nature, Unit Assessments require a time commitment of 60 to 90 minutes. Units can request a Unit Assessment here: FAU DEM - Request Unit Assessment.

Please refer any questions regarding Unit Assessments to em@fau.edu.