The Planning Process
What is the Planning Process
This document describes how a community will respond to a wide variety of hazards.
What is an Emergency Operations Plan (EOP)
This mission area includes capabilities necessary to reduce loss of life and property by lessening the impact of disasters.
What is Mitigation
True or False: The planning team leader should create the plan alone and then ask for feedback.
What is Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment
What is the primary goal of emergency planning?
What is protecting life, property, and the environment
This part of the EOP provides a broad overview of the emergency management and response program by utilizing the elements of Concept of Operations, Communications, and Direction, Control, and Coordination.
What is the Basic Plan?
This capability involves sharing accurate, timely, and accessible information during incidents.
What is Public Information & Warning
This official is responsible for overall incident management.
Who is the incident commander
This is the national framework that provides a consistent, standardized approach for government, NGOs, and the private sector to work together to manage all-hazard incidents.
What is NIMS (National Incident Management System)
Planning should be community-based, meaning it involves the _______________ approach.
What is the whole community approach
This element defines how resources are requested, tracked, and managed during an incident.
What is resource management
The five mission areas of the National Preparedness Goal are ...?
What is Prevention, Protection, Mitigation, Response, Recovery
This type of planning team creates more comprehensive and creative plans.
What is a diverse team
What does EOP stand for?
This step involves analyzing hazards, threats, and vulnerabilities to determine planning priorities.
What is understanding the situation or conducting a risk assessment.
These annexes organize response actions by functions, rather than by hazard.
What are emergency support function (ESF) annexes
The distinct elements that are essential to the execution of each mission area.
What are the core capabilities
This principle ensures that each individual reports to only one supervisor.
What is unity of command
What does ICS stand for?
What is the Incident Command System
The first, and arguably most important, step of the emergency planning process.
What is forming a collaborative planning team?
An EOP should be reviewed and updated at least every _______ years, or after major incident.
What is 1 or 2 years?
This cross-cutting capability, which supports all mission areas, ensures a coordinated operational structure and decision-making.
What is Operational Coordination
This group is responsible for the overall incident, including setting objectives, and consists of the Incident Commander and agency representatives.
What is Unified Command?
What is the definition of Concept of Operations (CONOPS)?
What is the operational heart of the basic plan