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]
ISO 22320 includes the following main clauses:[7]
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
ISO 22320 is the first of a series of ISO standards and Technical Reports on Emergency management, including[8]
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]
Year | Description | |
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2011 | ISO 22320 (1st edition) | |
2018 | ISO 22320 (2nd edition). The document changed from being requirements to recommendations. |