Meet EC.4.14 on the department level, not through a policy
I was recently asked whether organizations should create a policy to meet the requirements of EC.4.14. That Joint Commission (formerly JCAHO) standard requires hospitals to establish strategies to handle assets and resources during emergencies.
I don't know that I would necessarily recommend creating a policy to address all the elements of EC.4.14, as much because the individual elements carry across the whole operational continuum of an organization. In other words, there are pieces of EC.4.14 that "belong" to facilities, some to materials management, some to other department-level folks, etc.
I daresay that these should probably be addressed as a function of your response plan. This then folds up into your incident command structure for use during actual emergencies.
Managing assets and resource during an emergency needs to be "living" process and very fluid. My experience has been that once these things get to policy level, they lose a lot of flexibility in the process.
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