Kansas CHEMACK Plan 2010 (.pdf) This document supports the Kansas Response Plan (KRP) Emergency Support Function #10 - Oil and Hazardous Materials Response (ESF #10). ESF #10 provides for a coordinated response to actual or potential oil and hazardous material incidents. Under CHEMPACK, designated local medical officials have immediate access to antidotes in the event of a chemical emergency. Updated August 2010

KS Preparedness Times Summer 2010 Newsletter (.pdf) New June 2010

Voluntary Private Sector Preparedness Accreditation and Certification Program (PS-Prep) Resource Center (U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security) DHS has finalized standards for the Voluntary Private Sector Preparedness Accreditation and Certification Program (PS-Prep), recommended by the 9/11 Commission. Once PS-Prep has been implemented, it will enable private organizations to attain emergency preparedness certification through a standardized accreditation system. New June 2010

BPHP Planner's Counties Assignments (.pdf) Updated March 2010

About Us:

The Bureau of Public Health Preparedness (BPHP) provides leadership to protect the health of Kansans through efforts to mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters, infectious disease, terrorism, and mass casualty emergencies. To accomplish this mission, the BPHP is responsible for the following:

• Health and medical planning and response in Kansas
• Serves as the coordinating unit for the Emergency Support Function (ESF) #8
• Maintains the Health Alert Network (KS-HAN)
• Serves as the grantee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Health and Human Services (HHS) health preparedness grants.

BPHP promotes all-hazards planning, defined as planning in the absence of a specific threat for capabilities that would be required to respond to any emergency regardless of the causative factor. BPHP prepares a variety of exercise scenarios to contribute toward planning purposes for health preparedness.