Purpose and Role of the Advisory Board:

1. This Advisory Board function is focusing on the disaster preparedness, mitigation and planning for a community scale or larger. The type of disaster includes; natural, catastrophic fire, biological and chemical disasters.
2. The Advisory Board will advise on mitigation of, prepare for, respond to, and recover from large-scale disasters. This will include drafting standards and procedures, education, high level advocacy and consultation to ensure that the preparedness and best practices of our national disaster recovery work.
3. The Advisory Board will be the focal point of technical expertise on disaster preparedness within IEM. 
4. Topics involves: Floods, Haze and Wild Fires, Landslides and Rockslides, Earthquake, Coastal Erosion, Land Subsidence, Tsunami, Catastrophic Chemical Release**, etc.

* - these are taken as large catastrophic events. Smaller fires or chemical control measures would be interest of other committees (Fire Advisory Board and/or Technical Divisions i.e. Chemical Engineering Technical Division).

Kindly assist to fill-up the attached form along with your short past involvement in the industry and your interest to IEM Secretariat at nurul@iem.org.my or contact 03-79684006 

Thank you.

Ir. Loo Chee Kin

Chairman

IEM Disaster Risk Reduction Advisory Board (DRRAB)