The current excitement around private sector activity represents “a fundamental shift” in emergency preparedness and response. By investing in restoring their own enterprises and repairing damaged supply chains organizations aim to stop the escalation of incidents and look to improve their turnaround times. These activities have raised new questions over compliance and safety surrounding personnel training and qualifications. Failing to track who’s qualified and when a qualification will expire is major compliance and safety concern for these response teams and for organizations contracting in an emergency service provider. What are these concerns:

Teams operating in-house or providing contracted services will have highly trained personnel. These private response organizations need to ensure everyone has valid qualifications, meet expectations, and hold the required training hours.