Function: Administration and Logistics
Maintain complete and accurate records at all times to ensure a more efficient emergency response and recovery. Certain records may also be required by regulation or by your insurance carriers or prove invaluable in the case of legal action after an incident.
Function: Administration and Logistics
Other Functions
- Function: Direction and Control
- Function: Communications
- Function: Life Safety
- Function: Property Protection
- Function: Community Outreach
- Function: Recovery and Restoration
Maintain complete and accurate records at all times to ensure a more efficient emergency response and recovery. Certain records may also be required by regulation or by your insurance carriers or prove invaluable in the case of legal action after an incident.
Administrative Actions
Administrative actions prior to an emergency include:
- Establishing a written emergency management plan
- Maintaining training records
- Maintaining all written communications
- Documenting drills and exercises and their critiques
- Involving community emergency response organizations in planning activities
Administrative actions during and after an emergency include:
- Maintaining telephone logs
- Keeping a detailed record of events
- Maintaining a record of injuries and follow-up actions
- Accounting for personnel
- Coordinating notification of family members
- Issuing press releases
- Maintaining sampling records
- Managing finances
- Coordinating personnel services
- Documenting incident investigations and recovery operations
Logistics
Before an emergency, logistics may entail:
- Acquiring equipment
- Stockpiling supplies
- Designating emergency facilities
- Establishing training facilities
- Establishing mutual aid agreements
- Preparing a resource inventory
During an emergency, logistics may entail the provision of:
- Providing utility maps to emergency responders
- Providing material safety data sheets to employees
- Moving backup equipment in place
- Repairing parts
- Arranging for medical support, food and transportation
- Arranging for shelter facilities
- Providing for backup power
- Providing for backup communications
Emergency funding can be critical immediately following an emergency. Consider the need for pre-approved purchase requisitions and whether special funding authorities may be necessary.
Last Modified: Tuesday, 21-Mar-2006 08:36:47 EST