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Campus Emergency Management Program Overview

http://bfa.sdsu.edu/emergency/

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What is Emergency Management?

Emergency Management is a continuous process. Mitigation Preparedness Response Recovery

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Components of Emergency Management

Mitigation (ongoing) includes activities that reduce or eliminate the impacts to people and property.

Preparedness (ongoing) includes developing plans to ensure the most effective, efficient response to an emergency; taking steps to minimize injuries and damages; and identifying and maintaining resources.

Response (immediate/short term/long term) includes first response in the field from the onset of an emergency or disaster as well campus emergency operations center response to manage the incident from a campus perspective.

Recovery (short term/long term) includes steps to return the campus to normal operations during or as soon as possible following an emergency.

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CSU Executive Order 1013:

Directs Campuses to Implement and Maintain an Emergency Management Program

President Weber is the highest level of authority in an emergency; in conjunction with the Provost and Vice Presidents he establishes policy and declares a campus emergency when required

President Weber delegates responsibility to Sally Roush, Vice President for Business and Financial Affairs as the Emergency Operations Executive; in consultation with the President, she directs the activation of our campus Emergency Operations Center and manages/commands the Emergency Operations Center, when activated.

Vice President Roush delegates functional responsibility to campus staff in the Emergency Operations Center.

Our Emergency Management Program is supplemental to our campus administrative policies, procedures, and practices followed during normal university operations. During an emergency, normal departmental reporting lines become invisible and direction may be given under the auspices of the President and Vice Presidents by EOC response team members in fulfillment of their functional responsibility.

At the Campus Level

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Focus of this Overview

Mitigation Preparedness Response Recovery

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Campus Emergency Preparedness

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Emergency Operations Plan

SDSU has an Emergency Operations Plan in place that documents our emergency management program efforts. Our Preparedness effort begins with a threat assessment to determine potential risks to the campus and local community and with that identifies our campus emergency response and recovery organization and procedures.

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Threat Assessment

Threats to the campus include those that have occurred or those that could potentially occur, given our campus characteristics and the surrounding region.

Potential threats to the SDSU community include:Earthquake, Fire, Flood, Hazardous Materials Incident, Utility Failure, Physical Threat/Assault, Civil Disorder, Terrorism, Aircraft Incident, or Pandemic

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Preparing to Respond

Maintaining the Campus Emergency Operations Plan (threats, emergency response assignments, mutual aid, emergency supplies, communication resources, or changes at the CSU, state and/or federal level)

Establishing, equipping, and maintaining an Emergency Operations Center

Coordinating efforts among campus emergency response departments (Public Safety, Environmental Health & Safety, and Physical Plant) – most threats to the campus involve the expertise and response of these departments – and the Emergency Operations Center Response teams

Specialized Training, including drills and table top/full scale exercises, for Building Safety Coordinators, Emergency Operations Center response team members, and emergency planning team members on an annual basis

Overview training for the campus community (students, faculty, and staff) on an ongoing basis

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Campus Emergency Response

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Level of Emergency Determines Campus ResponseOur plan provides for a full emergency response; however, only those sections of the response organization that are required to address the situation are activated. Under

Level 1: A minor or moderate incident where campus resources are adequate and available.

Level 2: A moderate to severe campus emergency where campus resources may not be adequate and local mutual aid may be required. (President Weber may proclaim a campus State of Emergency.)

Levels 3-5: A major disaster where resources in or near the impacted area are overwhelmed and extensive county, state and/or federal resources are required. (President Weber will proclaim a campus State of Emergency.)

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Campus Emergency Operations Center Response

At the campus level, whether in the field (Police/Fire Command Post) or in the Emergency Operations Center (EOC), our response teams are structured using the Incident Command System (ICS)

ICS was first developed in the 1970s by Federal, State, and Local Fire services

ICS was adopted in the 1980s for law enforcement use

Why it works? It is a flexible, consistent way of structuring response organizations of varying agencies and jurisdictions

It has since been adopted at the State (SEMS) and National (NIMS) levels as a tool to manage incidents, regardless of their complexity (may cross operational areas, may involve mutual aid and even multi-agency coordination)

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SEMSStandardized Emergency

Management System

ICS

Incident Command System

NIMSNational Incident

Management System

SEMS is a state-wide California approach to incident management. SEMS incorporates the use of ICS and provides an organizational framework and acts as an umbrella under which all response agencies may function is an integrated fashion.

NIMS is a comprehensive National approach to incident management. NIMS incorporates the use of ICS and provides an organizational framework that is applicable at all jurisdictional levels and across functional disciplines.

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ICS Functions

Management/Policy

Operations Planning Logistics Finance

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Management/Policy (Command in Field)

Establishes emergency response policies and is responsible for activation, oversight and termination of the EOC. Declares campus emergency.

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Operations

Represents the campus emergency services units (the on-scene emergency responders). Operations is responsible for the assessment and implementation of field operations from onset of the incident through recovery operations.

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Planning

Responsible for receiving, evaluating, and analyzing all incident information and providing updated status reports to the EOC Management/ Policy group, field operations, and EOC functional teams.

Prepares an Incident Action Plan (IAP) with short- and long-term goals for managing the incident.

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Logistics

Responsible for ordering supplies, personnel, and the material support necessary to conduct the emergency and recovery operations (e.g., personnel call-out, care and shelter, transportation, food services)

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Finance

Responsible for overall cost accountability, supply and equipment procurement, claims of damage to property, equipment usage, vendor contracting, and response personnel time tracking and worker's compensation record keeping.

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Activation of the EOC

In consultation with the Management/Policy group (and information received from Public Safety and/or Marketing and Communications), Vice President for Business and Financial Affairs activates the EOC

EOC members may be notified to report to the EOC by phone call, voice or text message

EOC is currently located in Public Safety and back up is Physical Plant

Standard procedures for opening EOC (sign in/roll call, set up of equipment, phone trees, checklists, etc.)

Important to remember all EOC response team members may not be available to respond

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Campus EOC Roles and Responsibilities Identified by the ICS structure (at the campus

level, identified by position/area of expertise)

Next steps? Review of EOC roles/responsibilities (individual/team

checklists) Train (ICS/SEMS/NIMS) Continue to Develop and Bridge Preparedness Efforts

Emergency Response Departments, EOC Response Teams, Essential Personnel, Building Safety Coordinators, Emergency Planning Team, Campus Departments, Individuals (Faculty/Staff/Students/Parents)

Goal: Collaborate, Educate, Communicate, Practice!