Emergency Preparedness
This 3-day supply of essentials is recommended for all households in case of disaster.
What is a 72-hour emergency kit or go-bag?
This system organizes emergency response into standardized roles and structure.
What is the Incident Command System?
This team within the health department responds to outbreaks and consists of environmental and nursing staff.
What is the Epi Rapid Response Team (ERRT)
This type of severe weather is common in KY during spring and can produce tornadoes.
What are thunderstorms?
This plan allows the health department to coordinate ESF-8 incidents, such as the COVID-19 pandemic using the Incident Command System.
What is the Department Operations Center plan?
This document outlines how your family will communicate and reunite during emergencies.
What is the family emergency plan?
The first step you should take before helping others in an emergency.
What is ensuring your own safety?
This term refers to diseases that spread from person to person.
What is communicable?
This natural disaster often affects KY river regions after a heavy rain.
What is flooding?
This plan would be used to move operations to a different location in response to the building being destroyed or to allow staff to work from home during inclement weather.
What is Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP)?
The federal agency that coordinates disaster response in the US.
Who is FEMA?
This type of shelter is set up for displaced residents after disasters.
What is an emergency shelter?
These tasks are critical to the community and must continue even if our building is destroyed.
What are Essential Functions?
This winter hazard can make travel dangerous and cause power outages.
What is an ice storm?
This plan is used when making a press release or briefing for an event such as COVID-19.
What is the Emergency Risk Communication Plan?
Which Emergency Support Function is Public Health.
What is ESF-8 public health and medical.
This communication method is a redundant communication method used by the health department.
What is Plum Case, ham radio, ReadyOp, the phone tree or group text?
This rapid, task specific instruction is given immediately before or during an emergency response event.
What is the Just-In-Time-Training
This emergency plan is used when responding to weather emergencies.
What is the Emergency Operations Plan (EOP)
This plan provides response to communicable disease outbreaks with advice on social distancing, isolation and quarantine procedures.
What is the Disease Outbreak Support Plan?
This phase of the disaster cycle involves training?
What is preparedness?
MCHD’s Incident Commander.
Who is Cathy Bethel?
This protective equipment includes gloves, masks and eye protection.
What is personal protective equipment (PPE)
This app would be used by MCHD track patients if asked to assist with a nursing home evacuation.
What is ReadyOp forms or Ky TrackSafe?
This plan provides locations and tasks to support providing medical countermeasures such as a drive through vaccine event.
What is Point of Dispensing plan?