Report: FEMA Lacks Centralized Standards for Reserve Disaster Workforce

submitted by Mike Kraft

hstoday.us - by Mickey McCarter - June 4, 2012

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) does not monitor how its reserve workforce applies disaster guidance and policies in different areas of the United States and thus does not ensure consistency across its 10 regional offices, congressional investigators warned Friday.

Moreover, FEMA lacks hiring standards for reserve employees under the Disaster Assistance Employee (DAE) program; therefore those employees are likely to have different skill sets from region to region, said the Government Accountability Office in a report, Disaster Assistance Workforce: FEMA Could Enhance Human Capital Management and Training.

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Disaster Assistance Workforce: FEMA Could Enhance Human Capital Management and Training (64 page .PDF file)
http://www.gao.gov/assets/600/591159.pdf