Shelter Facts
A temporary safe and comforting refuge in time of disaster or emergency.
What is a shelter?
Evacuees give their health assessments, are triaged and support through this group of people.
What are Public Health Nurses?
Stands for National Incident Management System and is the nationwide approach that helps government agencies, private businesses, and non-governmental organizations work together to respond to incidents.
What is NIMS?
They activate an overnight shelter.
What is the county?
Name at least two types of facilities that can be used as an overnight shelter.
This EH Role helps shelter staff keep the evacuees from getting sick from unsafe foods.
What is Food & Drink Safety?
Is a standardized approach to incident management.
What is the Incident Command System (ICS)?
This person activates/mobilizes staff when the county activates a overnight shelter.
Who is the Health Officer or designee.
This shelter's purpose is the prevention of death and injury from exposure to the elements and usually not an overnight shelter.
What is a warming shelter?
This EH Roles helps to identify adequate number of toilets and washing stations.
What is Sanitation and Hygiene?
US government agency that helps the country prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters.
What is FEMA?
Who are Environmental Health and Public Health nursing staff.
Provides temporary overnight housing for people who can't stay in their homes. Some emergency shelters are open during the day as well.
What are emergecny overnight shelters?
This EH roles helps to make sure that the building is safe, health wise, for evacuees.
Command, operations, planning, logistics and finance/administration make up the management functions of...
What are the 5 primary management functions of ICS?
This position acts as a go between for the agency and the county.
Who is the Liaison/EPC/Designee?
A temporary public facility that provides essential services like food, water, shelter, and basic medical aid to a large number of people displaced by a disaster, essentially acting as a congregate living space for disaster survivors until they can return home or find more permanent housing
What is a Mass Care Shelter?
This EH role helps shelter staff address keep evacuees safe from over flowing trash, when to remove waste and if there are sharps containers available.
What is Waste Management?
This position is responsible for aspects of the emergency response including: developing incident objectives, managing all incident operations, application of resources, and responsibility for persons involved.
Who is the Incident Commander?
These are some organizations we work with when the shelter is in operation.
Who are American Red Cross and Salvation Army?