Evidence-Based Emergency Management Part 2:

Putting it into Practice

Course website: http://www.mcgill.ca/library/library-findinfo/subjects/humanities/disaster-emergency-management

Robin Featherstone, MLISLife Sciences Library

robin.featherstone@mcgill.ca

Julie Jones, MLISHumanities & Social Sciences Library

julie.jones@mcgill.ca

How do you monitor information?

“I’m OK… just a little too much ‘push’ technology.”

Agenda• Recap• Current Awareness

– RSS/Twitter/Apps– Email alerts

• News Sources– 20 min BREAK –• Presentations• Summary• Post-Test

Evidence-Based Emergency Management Process

Evaluating the Evidence

Incorporating evidence into decision-making

Evaluating the Process

Formulating the question

Searching the Evidence

For assistance planning for, responding to, or recovering from an emergency or disaster

Workshop 1

Workshop 1

Workshop 1

Workshop 2

Workshop 2

Putting it into practice – objectives

At the end of this course, you will be able to: 1.Set up search & Table of Contents (TOC) alerts using an article database 2.Recognize, based on the methodology sections of research articles, cases comparable to McGill University3.Identify evidence-based interventions to assist with the development, assessment or modification of services or programs offered through University Safety4.Prepare and present a brief summary of a publication for an audience of peers

Current Awareness

Current Awareness – e-Alerts

Current Awareness – Association Listservs and Online Communities

Current Awareness – Table of Contents Alerts for Journals

Current Awareness – Table of Contents Alerts for Journals

Exercise

Set up a table of contents alert for 2 publications listed in the “Core Journals and Trade Publications” section of the subject guide.

Current Awareness – Search Alerts

Current Awareness – Search Alerts

Current Awareness – Search Alerts

Current Awareness – Search Alerts

Current Awareness – Search Alerts

Exercise

1) Select a database from the subject guide.2) Run the search you used when completing

your homework for this week’s workshop.3) Set up a weekly email alert for the search.

Remember…depending on the database, you may have to create a login to do this.

Current Awareness - RSS

Current Awareness - RSS

GovernmentCanadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS): http://www.ccohs.ca/newsroom/news_releases/rss/all/en

News from the centre

Public Safety Canada News: http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/app_support/xml/ps_news_e.xml

News from the office of Canada’s Public Safety minister

Trade MagazinesCampus Safety Magazine: http://feeds.feedburner.com/CSM-All

Summaries of news about campus safety (mostly American)Canadian Security Mag: http://feeds.feedburner.com/CanadianSecurity

Professional Security Management NewsEmergency Management: http://www.emergencymgmt.com/subscribe/rss

Nearly 20 feeds on emergency management news headlines, blog posts by experts, and emergency management events

RSS How To

1. Subscribe to a “RSS Reader” (e.g., Google Reader) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_feed_aggregators

2. Find a feed on a website of interest - look for the

3. Subscribe

http://www.commoncraft.com/video/rss

Current Awareness - Twitter

• Twitter subscribers receive real-time updates

• 140 character maximum

• Look for the blue bird or the blue “t” on websites to find an institution’s twitter account

• Used by many government agencies and emergency management groups…

Government•National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health - @NIOSH•DHS Lessons Learned - @LLIS•Public Safety Canada - @Get_PreparedTrade Magazines•Campus Safety Magazine - @CampusSafetyMag•Disaster Recovery Journal - @drjournal •Emergency Management - @EmergencyMgtMagNews•CBC Montreal - @CBCMontreal•The Montreal Gazette - @mtlgazette•The Weather Network - @weathernetwork

Some Selected Twitter FeedsEducational Organizations•Canada Emergency Management Academy - @CanadaEmergency•Justice Institute of BC - @JIBC_EMD

Professional Associations•Ontario Association of Emergency Managers - @OAEM_Online•International Association of Emergency Managers - @iaem •International Association of Emergency Managers - Universities and Colleges Caucus - @IAEM_UCC

Experts•Scot Phelps - @emergnecymgmt•Patrice Cloutier - @patricecloutier•Robin Featherstone - @rmfeatherstone

Common emergency management hash tags

#HSEM Homeland Security Emergency Management

#Outbreak Disease Outbreak

#CBRNE Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive

#Hazmat Hazardous Materials

#SMEM Social Media Emergency Management

… and many more. See: http://davislogic.blogspot.com/2011/08/twitter-hashtags-and-emergency.html

Current Awareness - Apps

• Disaster Apps and Mobile Optimized Web Pages: http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/disasterapps.html

WISER

Current Awareness - Apps

• Disaster Apps and Mobile Optimized Web Pages: http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/disasterapps.html

PDC World Disaster AlertsOutbreaks Near Me

News Sources

News sources

• Databases containing local and Canadian sources, international sources, or both

News Sources – Google News Alerts

Exercise

• Use Canadian Newsstand or CBCA Complete to search for news articles about McGill University and a campus safety or emergency management topic of your choice.

• Set up a weekly alert for this search that will run for 6 months.

Exercise

• Use Lexis-Nexis and Google News to search for news articles about the February 2012 student occupation of McGill’s James Administration Building.

• Compare the results.

Filtered Information•Synthesized guidelines•Systematic reviews

Scholarly Literature•“Peer-reviewed” journal articles•Indexed articles and books

“Grey Literature”•Organizational reports•Training and workshop materials•Conference proceedings•Blog entries

Other Indexed Publications•News articles•Trade magazine articles

Presentations

Summary

1. What are three methods you can use to monitor publications?

2. Where can you search for news articles? 3. Which kinds of studies represent the “best

evidence” for safety interventions/initiatives at McGill?

4. Name one intervention that you learned about through these workshops that could be implemented at McGill?

Post-Test

http://bit.ly/EBEMtest