Power outages from natural disasters and manmade events can cause tremendous problems for institutional and commercial facilities, jeopardizing the health and safety of occupants and disrupting operations. For these reasons, maintenance and engineering managers need to ensure facilities continue to operate during outages.
The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently released the Ten Steps to Resilient Power to help emergency and business continuity managers implement the Resilient Power Best Practices for Critical Facilities and Sites (RPBP). The RPBP provides guidelines, analysis, background material and references to improve facility and operations resilience.
The tool is the newest addition to CISA’s Public Safety Communications and Cyber Resiliency Toolkit. Together, the Ten Steps and the RPBP help managers create a comprehensive resilient power plan.
The target audience for the Ten Steps includes executives, chief engineers, emergency preparedness and continuity planning personnel, and those involved with cybersecurity, physical security, telecommunications, information technology and procurement.
Dan Hounsell is senior editor for the facilities market. He has more than 30 years of experience writing about facilities maintenance, engineering and management.
