Response coordination

The organizational chart further identifies key positions in the project team, including the project director, project manager, site safety and health officer (SSHO), site supervisor, emergency response coordinator, site security, and other specialized positions. 

The EMO is composed of the facility manager, the emergency response coordinator, the field coordinator, and various service chiefs. The number of service chiefs and their duties will vary. There need not be a separate individual in charge of each service, and small facilities may combine two or more services under one individual, as long as each function is performed. 

Field Coordinator. The job of the field coordinator is to correct the emergency situation as rapidly as possible with minimum risk to those in or near the affected area. He or she establishes a field command post as close to the scene of the emergency as can be safely done. The post often is in or near a radio-equipped building or vehicle, thus permitting rapid establishment of communications between the command post and the emergency response coordinator. 

Report to Emergency Response Coordinator as personnel are confirmed as missing. 

Issue final report to Emergency Response Coordinator after all work unit head counts are received. 

Determine from Emergency Response Coordinator names of any injured people. 

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Health/Medical Equipment and Supplies. Lead HHS Agency ASPR in coordination with DHS/National Response Coordination Center... 

Ensure continued communications with local, regional, and state response coordination centers and other HCCs through the Liaison Officer and others. ... 

Communication systems to ensure the ability of ongoing communication among emergency personnel, hospitals, and disaster response coordinators are a critically important issue that needs to be addressed on the federal, state, and local levels. 

A designated emergency response coordinator in overall charge of the situation should be specified. Responsibility may at some point during an emergency be transferred to another individual, for example, from warehouse management to the fire chief of the local fire department upon their arrival on the scene. 

An emergency response team, under the control of the emergency response coordinator, should be assembled with a clearly defined chain of command. The members of this team should be selected and trained for specific mitigative and communication tasks. Specific duties might include spill cleanup, first aid, employee evacuation and headcount, incipient fire response, fire pump/sprinkler control valve/fire door monitoring, firefighting, fire/emergency responder communications, and rescue. 

A system of emergency notification should be developed that is both internal and external to the warehouse operation. The system should include a list of contact names and telephone numbers including the emergency response coordinator, members of the emergency response team, and company officials. This list should provide for 24 hour contact with alternate names for each position. It should also state under what circumstances these individuals should be contacted. 

Once a situation assessment has been made and the appropriate response has been determined, the emergency response coordinator should assume responsibility. At this point, sub-elements of the emergency plan should be activated on an as-needed basis, for example, emergency notification, resource coordination, evacuation procedures, site security,... 

The owner or operator of a facility subject to this section shall designate a facility representative who will participate on the local emergency planning committee (LEPC) as a facility emergency response coordinator. 

Both tests include a series of noninvasive observational (in cage) and interactive measurements to evaluate the neurofunctional integrity of the rat. Locomotor activity, behavioral changes, motor-affective (e.g., touch escape) and sensory (e.g., startle response) reflex responses, coordination and gait, CNS excitation (e.g., tremors), and autonomic features as pupil size and body temperature are evaluated (ICH, 2000). As a standard, these measurements are executed at several time points after the single-dose administration... 

National Response Coordination Center (NRCC)—As a component of the National Operations Center, the NRCC serves as the Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency primary operations center responsible for national incident response and recovery as weU... 

Our main interest in this chapter is to get a better understanding of inventory risk allocation issues in drop-shipping supply chains as well as the impact of power distribution between the channel entities. To keep focus and to not diffuse economic insights, we do not explicitly reflect other issues encountered in e-commerce fulfillment, since many are hard to include in a formal model. Among these issues are possible differences in transportation costs and responsiveness, coordination issues arising when multiple wholesalers are needed to fulfill a single order, and the rationing of inventory when a wholesaler serves multiple retailers. These and other issues are treated qualitatively in Randall et al. (2002). 

CHEMTREC provides immediate technical assistance from chemical product safety specialists, emergency response coordinators, toxicologists, physicians, and other industry experts. The Center serves as a communications link for the responder, facilitating the rapid transfer of information and allocation of resources. Calls are received from all over the world, including from ships at sea. Translation services are available for callers who do not speak English. ACC employees who are fluent in foreign languages also provide translation assistance. 

Preparedness and Response Coordination. Effective and practical preparedness and response coordination mechanisms must be established for any type of emergency. In the case of threat categories I and 11, coordination arrangements must be formalized within each major emergency response organization, at each major jurisdictional level involved in the response, and between organizations and jurisdictional levels. 

Contact list and phone numbers for the facility response coordinator, National Response Center, cleanup contractors, and all appropriate federal, state, and local agencies who must be contacted in case of a discharge. 

The TPQ, expressed in pounds, is the critical number. If a facility has within its boundaries an amount of an extremely hazardous substance equal to or in excess of its threshold planning quantity, the facility is subject to the EPCRA emergency planning requirements, and must notify both the SERC and the LEPC of this fact. The facility must also appoint an emergency response coordinator who will work with the LEPC on developing and implementing a local emergency plan for the facility. 

EPCRA section 303 requires that each LEPC develop an emergency plan. The plan must contain (but is not limited to) the identification of facilities within the planning district, likely routes for transporting extremely hazardous substances, a description of the methods and procedures to be followed by facility owners and operators, and the designation of community and facility emergency response coordinators. 

Collaborative work involves two forms of activity teamwork and taskwork. Teamwork refers to those instances where individuals interact or coordinate behavior to achieve tasks that are important to the team s goals (i.e., behavioral, altitudinal, and cognitive responses coordinated with fellow team members), while taskwork (i.e., task-oriented skills) describes those instances where team members are performing individual tasks separate from their team counterparts (i.e., tasks that do not require interdependent interaction with other team members) (Salas, Cooke, and Rosen, 2008). Teamwork was formally defined by Wilson, Salas, Priest, and Andrews (2007) as a multidimensional, dynamic construct that refers to a set of interrelated cognitions, behaviours and attitudes that occur as team members perform a task that results in a coordinated and synchronised collective action. ... 

If the ill involves a flammable liquid and the possibility of a fire exists, it is the emergency response coordinator s duty and concern to protect the public. Protective hose lines, stand-by equipment, or foam coverage may be needed until the spill-contaimnent team is functioning. For die protection of die conmiunity and public, the emergency response force s activities are normally directed toward the following ... 

If the company transports critical cargo or can provide technical or logistical assistance that may be needed to respond to an event, identify yourself to local emergency response coordinators. 

Emergency Response Coordination Within Earthquake Disasters... 

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