ISO 22320 explained

ISO 22320:2018, Security and resilience - Emergency management - Guidelines for incident management, is an international standard published by International Organization for Standardization that provide guidelines to be used for organizations that helps to mitigate threats and deal with incidents to ensure continuity of basic function of society (for example water and food supplies, health, rescue services, fuel delivery, and electricity).[1] [2] [3] ISO 22320 can be used by all types and sizes of organizations, no matter whether they are private or public but it is mostly focused on national emergency management organizations [4] [5] [6]

Scope and contents

ISO 22320 includes the following main clauses:[7]

  1. Scope
  2. Normative references
  3. Terms and definitions
  4. Principles
  5. Incident management
  6. Working together

Annex A Additional guidance on working together
Annex B Additional guidance on incident management structure
Annex C Examples of incident management tasks
Annex D Incident management planning

Related standards

ISO 22320 is the first of a series of ISO standards and Technical Reports on Emergency management, including[8]

History

This standard was originally developed by ISO technical committee ISO/TC 223 on societal security and published for the first time in November 2011.[15] ISO/TC 292 Security and resilience took over the responsibility of the work when ISO/TC 223 was dissolved and initiated a revision of the standard.[16]

YearDescription
2011 ISO 22320 (1st edition)
2018 ISO 22320 (2nd edition). The document changed from being requirements to recommendations.

See also

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: ISO 22320:2018. ISO. 12 July 2019 .
  2. Web site: What Emergency Managers Need to Know about ISO 22320. The. Brain. www.noggin.io. 6 July 2021 .
  3. Web site: PECB . ISO 22320 Emergency Management - EN . PECB . 2020-07-27.
  4. Web site: ISO 22320 - NQCAB. nqcab.org.
  5. Web site: ISO stöd i att hantera kriser och katastrofer (t ex Covid-19). certezza.net.
  6. Web site: ISOTC292. www.isotc292online.org.
  7. Web site: Security and resilience — Emergency management — Guidelines for incident management . www.iso.org. 2020-07-27.
  8. Web site: ISOTC292. www.isotc292online.org. 2020-07-27. 2020-09-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20200922060718/https://www.isotc292online.org/publications/. dead.
  9. Web site: ISO 22322:2015. ISO. 13 November 2015 .
  10. Web site: ISO 22324:2015. ISO. 13 November 2015 .
  11. Web site: ISO 22325:2016. ISO.
  12. Web site: ISO 22326:2018. ISO.
  13. Web site: ISO 22327:2018. ISO.
  14. Web site: ISO/TR 22351:2015. ISO.
  15. Web site: ISOTC292. www.isotc292online.org.
  16. Web site: ISOTC292. www.isotc292online.org.