Planning and Exercise - Principles of Emergency Management - page 248

− What are the roles and responsibilities during recovery? Are the response
roles and responsibilities accurate?
− What are the specific recovery problems that need to be addressed for this
type of scenario (debris, damaged infrastructure, transportation prob-
lems, communications problems, and interruption)? What if the scenario
is a flood or major storm?
− Is the recovery portion of the city plan consistent with the plans of the
other organizations including fire, police, and public health?
− What changes need to be made in the existing plan? Does the plan need
to be changed to ensure that there is integration and consistency between
the city plan and other plans such as police, fire, hospital, or outside plans
such as counties and state?
− What outside agencies and organizations need to be involved and coordi-
nated with during recovery activities?
− Do you have enough resources, where can more resources be located, how
will they be tracked, how will this be paid for? Form the list of resources
that are identified, which ones are the most important?
− At what point during the scenario does your department need to escalate
its operations and call in additional support from other agencies?
− Who needs to be alerted and notified, what are the regulatory and plan-
ning requirements for notification, who will make the notification, and
when does the notification need to occur?
Questions for the media and public information breakout group
− Given the scenario and the various organizations that would be involved,
who is responsible for public information?
− How will public information be coordinated?
− At what point would a media and public information group be estab-
lished in the EOC, who will make this decision, who is the contact for
each department and organization, and who will serve as a representative
for the EOC or Joint Information Center?
− What message will need to be scripted for release to the media, who does
this need to be coordinated with inside and outside the hospital, and how
often and when will this information need to be updated?
− What scripted pubic information messages can be drafted beforehand,
and who can do this?
− To whom will the media release be addressed, and how will this informa-
tion be delivered (television, radio, door to door, etc.)?
− Who needs to be alerted and notified that there will be a media release,
and what are the regulatory and planning requirements for notification?
− Who is responsible for public information, what message will need to be
scripted for release to the media, who does this need to be coordinated
with inside and outside the hospital, and how often and when will this
information need to be updated?