1. CONTINUITY OF OPERATIONS PLANNING WORKSHOP #2

2. Workshop Overview Workshop #2 Workshop #3
Implementation, Recovery Strategy, and Reconstitution
Workshop #3
Appendices
Training, Testing and Evaluation

3. “Let our advanced worrying become our advanced planning”
- Winston Churchill
Prevention is key. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

4. Your individualized plan must reflect what your AREA will do to protect itself from its UNIQUE hazards with the UNIQUE resources it has or can obtain

5. There is a difference…. “Putting out the fire”
Immediate response and damage control
“After the fire is out”
Emphasis on recovery and resumption of
services
EMERGENCY
OPERATIONS
CONTINGENCY
PLANNING

6. COOP OF OPERATIONS PLAN CONTINUITY
Keep in mind: Emergency response from local, state and national government can be delayed up to 96 hours

7. Plan Elements Vital Alternate Essential Records Orders Facilities
Functions
Orders Of
Succession
Testing
Training
Delegations Of
Authority
Human
Capital
Management
Recovery
Communications
Devolution

8. COOP Plan

9. Objectives
Continuous performance of essential functions during “non-normal conditions”
Ensure safety and reduce stress among employees
Protect facilities, equipment, records
Minimize losses and damage
Reduce disruptions to the system

10. Objectives Plan for all departments; not just IT
Orderly recovery to resume service
Minimize harm (physical, financial, psychological) to clients whom your services benefit
Source: Federal Preparedness Circular 65 (FPC 65)

11. COOP Planning Capable of implementation with little or no warning
Operational within 12 hours
Maintain sustained operations up to 30 days
Provide regular risk analysis of current alternate operating facilities
Plan for existing field infrastructures and other options
Municipal services (Police, Fire, EMS, etc) will look to you to help mitigate patient surge. May use you as a base of operations to help local populations.

12. COOP Planning
Cross training, telecommuting, working at home, shared facilities
Consider distance of the alternate facilities from primary
Include regular testing, training and exercise of personnel, equipment and systems
Include maintenance, review and revision of COOP capabilities

13. Plan Components Project Initiation ID of Essential Functions
Design and Development
Implementation
Training, Testing and Exercises
Execution
Revision and Maintenance
Part of design and development: Service area mapping – assessing local population and service needs
Plan needs to go beyond table top exercises – actual drilling and testing of critical systems is necessary.

14. Disruption scenarios Loss of database Facility unavailable
Loss of communication systems
(including computers)
Loss of vendor services
Loss of staff

15. COOP Tool

16. COOP FUNCTION Worksheet

17. COOP TEMPLATE