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WORKSHOP IN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT Rapid Assessment Planning (G250.7)

WORKSHOP IN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT Rapid Assessment Planning (G250.7). WORKSHOP FACILITATORS. Bob Grist, Ph.D., CEM, ORCEMS UASI Regional Planner at Multnomah County Vicky Vose, AAS, BA:HA, ORCEMS Providence Health Systems Lorraine Churchill UASI Regional Planner at Columbia County

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WORKSHOP IN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT Rapid Assessment Planning (G250.7)

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  1. WORKSHOP IN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENTRapid Assessment Planning(G250.7)

  2. WORKSHOP FACILITATORS Bob Grist, Ph.D., CEM, ORCEMS UASI Regional Planner at Multnomah County Vicky Vose, AAS, BA:HA, ORCEMS Providence Health Systems Lorraine Churchill UASI Regional Planner at Columbia County Joseph Murray Oregon Emergency Management

  3. Introductions • Name and Job Title • Organization • What do you anticipate your role in response will be?

  4. Importance of Rapid Assessment “The ability of local governments to perform a rapid assessment accurately and within the first few hours after an incident is critical to providing an adequate local government response for life-threatening situations and imminent hazards” (FEMA)

  5. Rapid Assessment Planning • Assemble a team • Develop a DRAFT plan • Test, evaluate, and finalize • Implement the plan

  6. Planning Team TEAMWORK! • First Responders • Law Enforcement • Fire • Public Works • Other government agencies and organizations • Key personnel from business and industry • Volunteer organizations • Private citizens

  7. Plans and Procedures • Develop a “Community Profile” • Perform a “Risk Assessment” by sector • Determine a “Staffing Pattern” • Determine “Resource Requirements” • Develop “Communications Procedures” • Test the Plans and Procedures

  8. Develop a Community Profile • Geographic Features • Major Structures • Hospitals, schools, shelter sites • Sectors (“Neighborhoods”) • Manmade and natural boundaries • Essential Facilities • Staffing Patterns • “Round the clock” changes

  9. Geographic Features • Rivers and streams • Mountains, hills, and hillsides • Lakes • Landslide areas • Forest and grasslands • Wetlands

  10. Major Structures • “Cityscaping” • Mobility • Roads, freeways, bridges, trains, rail (freight, passenger, light and commuter) • Service Delivery • Fuel, water, gas, electrical transmission lines

  11. Sectors (“Neighborhoods”) • Natural “barriers” • Manmade “barriers” • Historic • Cultural • Thoroughfares • Access points • “Special needs” considerations

  12. Essential Facilities • Every neighborhood has “special places” they consider important • Churches • Schools • Parks • Shopping centers • Community centers • Let them decide what’s important!

  13. Profile Overlays • Population concentrations • Schools, group homes, hospitals, shopping • Population shifts • Time of day • Time of year • General weather conditions • Imminent Hazard Locations • Fuel storage facilities, electrical power stations, water distribution points, bridges

  14. Perform a Risk Assessment • List of potential hazards • Natural • Technological • Social • Extent of potential harm and damage • People • Places • Things • Likelihood of “Cascading Events”

  15. Determine a Staffing Pattern • Team members • “Friends” of team members • Recallable personnel • “Off-duty” personnel • Retired • Non-response personnel • Volunteers • Trained • Spontaneous

  16. Determine Resource Requirements • Mobility equipment • Communications equipment • Seasonally-appropriate “Survival” equipment • “Response” equipment • Data acquisition materials

  17. Develop Communications Procedures • Access point for information and data • Staffing needs • Equipment needs (phone, radio, FAX) • Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) • Use and dissemination of information • Priorities • Life Safety • Essential facilities • Lifelines

  18. Potential Information Users • Responders • Dispatch Centers (911) • ICS Command Post locations • EOC/ECC • EOC/ECC personnel will determine the best way to contact community agencies involved in the response efforts

  19. Data Collection Forms • Forms should provide an “initial picture” of the damage • Collection of data from: • Damage assessment teams • Specific assignments • Information provided through 911 centers • Extracted from media sources • Other reliable sources • Verified community information

  20. Test the Plans and Procedures • Should include: • Making team assignments • Developing an action plan • Briefing personnel • Process • Priorities • Timeliness • Sense of urgency • Necessary training at all levels

  21. Exercises and Corrective Action Plans • Orientation • Drills • Tabletop Exercises • Functional Exercises • Full-Scale Exercises • Post Exercise Evaluations • Debriefings and hot washes • After-Action Reviews and Reports • Corrective Action Plans and EOP revisions

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