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Emergency Preparedness Plan:
Emergency Response Coordination
The direct operational control of a major catastrophic emergency or disaster is the sole responsibility of the President or his designee.
Under the direction of the Senior Vice President of Student Life and Administrative Services, the logistical coordination of University emergency response teams is the responsibility of the Senior Associate Vice President of Public Safety or his designee.
Incident Commander
The Senior Associate Vice President of Public Safety or his designee will serve as the Incident Commander during all major catastrophic emergencies or disasters, under the direction of the Senior Vice President of Student Life and Administrative Services. The Senior Vice President of Student Life and Administrative Service is responsible for keeping the President or his designee advised of all matters related to the emergency and will work directly with the President's Senior Management Team during the emergency.
Establishing An Incident Command Center
Field Incident Command Center
If the emergency involves a single building or a small part of the campus, a University Public Safety vehicle will be placed as near the emergency scene as is reasonably possible. The vehicle will serve as a temporary (Field) incident command center until the scope of the emergency is defined. At least one uniformed officer is to staff the command center at all times during and until the emergency ends.
University Incident Command Center
If the incident involves a large part of the campus, the Incident Command Center is to be set up at Location 1, if not available, the Command Center will be set up at Location 2. If the site is unavailable, the Incident Commander is to select an alternate location with emergency power. At least one Public Safety Officer is to staff the Incident Command Center at all times until the incident/emergency situation ends. An area for outside and local agency assistance representatives to meet shall be established by the Incident Commander within the Incident Command Center or adjacent to the Field Incident Command Center for combined on-site emergency responders.
A conference room with facilities for media representatives shall be provided and staffed by University personnel as defined by the Vice President of Public Relations or his designee. Media representatives must be escorted by University representatives at all times while on any of the University Campuses. Violators of this policy will be escorted from the campus property.
Emergency Response And Recover Team
The Field Incident Commander (Ranking Public Safety or Health and Safety Representative) on duty will contact the Director of Public Safety and provide a situation report. The Director or his designee will then contact the Senior Associate Vice President of Public Safety to determine if dispatch is to initiate the notification process and activate the Emergency Call backlist by calling University Officials and Department Representatives.
In addition to initiating the notification process, the Incident Commander will establish a Field Incident Command Center.