CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FORMATION OF STANDARDS AND NORMS FOR MUNICIPAL CIVIL SERVANTS WORKING IN THE FIELD OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

Abstract

In Slovenia, the centre of gravity of the organization and operation of the emergency management. One would expect that this would be reflected in the number of experts working in the emergency management domain in the municipalities: specifically, experts who prepare the municipality, its administration, the public enterprises and institutions, the public firefighting service, voluntary organizations, contracted companies and Civil Protection for operation during natural and other disasters; experts who manage disaster response and provide basic living conditions, organize damage assessment and, to a certain extent, manage recovery, mitigation and prevention. However, this is not the case. The number of employees at the local level has decreased from the assessed 170 before 1994 to 45 at present. The centre of gravity of the number of employees has shifted from the municipalities to the national level, where it has seen a considerable increase. As a contribution to the beginning of the planned improvement for the harmonization of the municipalities’ functions and the number of municipal civil servants working in the field of emergency management, we suggest that a framework norm be a number of employees according to the number of inhabitants in a municipality. We also suggest that the standard working task that they carry out be defined. The number of inhabitants has been recognized as an appropriate criterion; it has been established that one civil servant is required per 10,000-18,000 inhabitants. Based on this criterion, 54 municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants would require a total of 85 employees for emergency management, with an additional 36 employees to work in joint communal administrations for the remaining municipalities.