Job action sheets

HICS is an emergency management system that is comprised of specific disaster response functional role positions within a hierarchical organization chart. Figure 8.3 illustrates the basic HICS table of organization. Each position has a job action sheet (JAS) that clearly de-... 

Use ofJAS Job action sheets define for the staff what their specific functional role is during the disaster response. They also facilitate improved documentation for better financial recovery after the event. 

Read this entire Job Action Sheet and put on position identification. ... 

Determine need for and appropriately appoint Command Staff and Section Chiefs, or Branch/Unit/Team leaders and Medical/Technical Specialists as needed distribute corresponding Job Action Sheets and position identification. Assign or complete the Branch Assignment List (HICS Form 204), as appropriate. ... 

Operations Plan, Job Action Sheets, operational procedures, records, and/or other related items Writing the facility/hospital After Action Report and Improvement Plan Participation in external (conmiunity and governmental) meetings and other postincident discussion and after-action activities Post-incident media briefings and facihty/hospital status updates Post-incident pubUc education and information Stress management activities and services for staff ... 

There are many HAZOP report shells which are sold to do this job, but they are easy to generate in a word processor or spread sheet. A typical page is shown in Figure 3. Make sure that hazards and actions are uniquely identified by a numbering system, so that they can be referenced by future reports and rapidly retrieved if required. 

Some cells swim using a cilium. A cilium is a structure that, crudely put, looks like a hair and beats like a whip. If a cell with a cilium is free to move about in a liquid, the cilium moves the cell much as an oar moves a boat. If the cell is stuck in the middle of a sheet of other cells, the beating cilium moves liquid over the surface of the stationary cell. Nature uses cilia for both jobs. For example, sperm use cilia to swim. In contrast, the stationary cells that line the respiratory tract each have several hundred cilia. The large number of cilia beat in synchrony, much like the oars handled by slaves on a Roman galley ship, to push mucus up to the throat for expulsion. The action removes small foreign particles—like soot—that are accidentally inhaled and stick in the mucus. 

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