Where this committee focuses
Your company will face its next storm, outage or incident with the plans, drills and mutual aid contacts it has in place today.
The Emergency Preparedness and Response Committee is the peer forum for how member companies prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies: emergency management programs, incident command, drills and exercises, mutual aid readiness and coordination with first responders and regulators. It draws first on the people who took part in SGA’s 2026 mutual aid roundtable.
Who you’ll work alongside
- Emergency management and preparedness managers
- Incident command and response coordinators
- Mutual aid coordinators and the executives who authorize aid
- Drill and exercise planners
- First-responder liaison and public safety coordinators
- Operations leaders who staff emergency response
What you take back to work
- For you. Peer comparison of drills, incident command practice and after-action reviews.
- For your company. A tested emergency program and a mutual aid network you know how to use well before the next event.
Winter Storm Fern showed that agreements, contact lists and RFA familiarity that exist before an event are worth more than any tactic during it. This committee is where that preparation becomes routine across member companies.
What the committee takes on first
The committee’s first year: a shared agenda on drills, incident command, restoration readiness and after-action learning, built by its founding members from these starting themes:
- Mutual aid readiness. Using the Mutual Aid Fundamentals guide and the Mutual Aid Best Practices Manual to get every member company drill-ready, with the RFA process practiced before storm season.
- Winter and extreme-weather lessons. Structured after-action exchange from Winter Storm Fern and later events.
- Incident command and exercises. Comparing how members structure incident command and what their tabletop and full-scale exercises test.
- First-responder coordination. How members work with fire, police and emergency management agencies before and during events.
