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5.1 Logistics Chief
Responsibilities:
The Logistics Chief is responsible for providing facilities, services, personnel, equipment, and materials in support of the incident. The Chief oversees the activities of the following emergency teams:
- Food, Water and Supply Management
- Staffing Deployment
- First Aid
Start up Actions:
- Check in with Emergency Operating Center (EOC) Director for situation briefing.
- Open supplies container or other storage facility.
- Begin distribution of supplies and equipment as needed.
- Ensure that the EOC and other facilities are set up as needed.
Operational Duties:
- Brief emergency teams on the situation and supervise their activities.
- Coordinate supplies, equipment, and personnel needs with the EOC.
- Maintain security of EOC Director's supplies and equipment.
Closing Down:
- At the EOC Director's direction, deactivate the section.
- Verify that closing tasks of all Logistics positions have been accomplished.
- Close out all reports and forward them to the Situation Analysis/ Documentation Team.
- Secure all equipment and supplies.
- Turn in your hours to the Timekeeping Team.
5.2 Food, Water, & Supply Management Team
Responsibilities:
This emergency team is responsible for providing food, water, and supplies during and after a disaster.
Start Up Actions:
- Check in with Logistics Chief for situation briefing.
- Open supply containers and storage facilities.
- Begin distribution of food, water, and supplies as directed by the Emergency Operating Center (EOC).
Operational Duties:
- Maintain security of supply containers and storage facilities.
- Distribute food, water, and supplies as needed.
- Assist employees in locating appropriate supplies.
- Set up a feeding area and sanitation facilities, if needed.
Closing Down:
- At the Logistics Chief's direction, receive all equipment and unused supplies as they are returned.
- Secure all equipment and supplies in the supply containers and storage facilities.
- At the Logistics Chief's direction, close out all reports and turn them in to the Situation Analysis/Documentation Team.
- Sign out with the Timekeeping Team.
5.3 Staffing Deployment Team
Responsibilities:
This emergency team is responsible for coordinating the assignment of personnel (staff and community volunteers) in support of the incident.
Start Up Actions:
- Receive roll call reports from departments.
- Check in with Logistics Chief for situation briefing.
- List personnel who are awaiting assignment.
Operational Duties:
- Deploy personnel as requested by the Emergency Operating Center (EOC), and ask them to sign in on the special assignment list.
- Coordinate record-keeping efforts with the Timekeeping Team.
Closing Down:
- Ask personnel to sign out on the special assignment list.
- At the Logistics Chief's direction, close out the special assignment list and forward it to the Situation Analysis/Documentation Team.
- Return all equipment and supplies.
- Sign out with the Timekeeping Team.
5.4 First Aid Team
Responsibilities:
This emergency team is responsible for the provision of emergency medical response, first aid, and counseling during and after a disaster.
Start up Actions:
- Obtain first aid supplies and equipment from the storage container or facility.
- Check in with the Logistics Chief for a situation briefing.
- Set up first aid station in a safe place, away from other personnel. Establish a "triage entry" area and identify "immediate" and "delayed" treatment areas.
- If necessary, set up a morgue area in a cool, isolated location.
- Obtain the portable file of emergency medical information on employees, if available.
Operational Duties:
- Use colored triage tags to categorize disaster victims as "immediate" (red), "delayed," (yellow), or "dead" (green) and then move victims quickly to the designated areas.
- Administer appropriate first aid to victims, following approved procedures that will ensure the safety of all caregivers and rescuers.
- Keep accurate and complete logs of care given, recording victims' names and the treatment provided to each.
- Determine the need for further medical assistance and notify the Logistics Chief if additional help is required. (The Logistics Chief will then work with the Staffing Deployment Team to identify helpers.)
- Continue to assess the status of victims at regular intervals and make entries into the logs.
- Report any deaths to the Logistics Chief.
- When using the 2-way radio, do not use names of the injured or dead.
- When transportation to the hospital is available, do a final assessment and record findings on the triage cards. Do not forward the medical logs, which must be kept.
Closing Down:
- Turn over all medical logs to the Situation Analysis/Documentation Team.
- Return all first aid supplies and equipment to the storage container or facility.
- Sign out with the Timekeeping Team.
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