COOP
This term refers to the ability of an agency to continue its critical services during disruptions, whether large or small.
What is Continuity of Operations (COOP)?
COOP planning involves ensuring that an agency can continue its essential functions in these three main areas.
What are People, Places, and Things?
It’s important for the COOP team to continuously track these during a disruption, including their status and availability.
What are personnel and resources?
If staff cannot work from their primary facility during a disruption, it's crucial that this type of facility is already planned and ready for use.
What is an alternate facility?
Each employee responsible for essential functions should have a _________, containing the software, documents, and technology needed to continue their work from any location.
What is a driveaway kit?
The ultimate goal of COOP planning is to ensure this quality, allowing an agency to continue performing its essential functions even during disruptions.
What is resiliency?
The COOP for your agency should be aligned with this larger, overarching plan that outlines responses to public health emergencies in South Dakota.
What is the SD DOH Emergency Operations Plan (EOP)?
The "People" aspect of COOP involves ensuring that ________ are available to carry out the most essential tasks during a disruption.
Who are staff?
The position that identifies a line of succession and identifies a "Safe Room" for sheltering in place in the event it becomes necessary.
Who is the Department Secretary or designee?
These are responsibilities your agency is required to complete, often related to life safety, policies, or legislative mandates.
What are essential functions?
When creating a COOP plan, an agency must prioritize ________, often focusing on the most critical services and tasks, rather than day-to-day activities.
What are essential or mission-critical services?
This system, used by the COOP team, is an electronic tool for managing incidents and helps track and manage resources during a disruption.
What is eICS?
During a disruption, these types of staff members will remain at work to ensure that essential functions are still being carried out.
Who are staff with essential functions?
Having plans in place for an alternate facility ensures that there will be a seamless transfer of _______ and _______, so no critical services are missed.
What are staff and resources?
The scope of essential functions may change depending on the ______ of a COOP activation.
What is duration?
The COOP team must reestablish operations at the impacted facility or transition to another facility within this time frame.
What is 30 days?
The individual that will determine situations that require implementation of the COOP.
Who is the Department Secretary or the designee?
The _______ team is responsible for setting up an alternate facility if the primary location is unavailable.
What is a Relocation Team?
An alternate facility can be one that your agency owns, or it may be borrowed from another organization through this type of formal agreement.
What is a memorandum of understanding (MOU)?
This term refers to the resources, equipment, and technology that are needed to perform the critical functions of an agency during a disruption.
What are Things?
This office writes and reviews the COOP Plan.
What is OPHPR?
This aspect of COOP focuses on identifying and securing the necessary facilities for continuing critical operations during an emergency.
What are Places?
The COOP team is expected to meet quarterly and participate in exercises every _______ to ensure preparedness.
What is every 3 years?
The ________ will determine full or partial deployment to the designated alternate facility of any mission-essential functions.
Who is the The Department Secretary or designee?
A driveaway kit for essential functions should include these types of resources to allow staff to complete critical tasks, even if they are not at their primary workplace.
What are software, documents, and technology?