Competencies:

• Oversee and assist with on-site food service (general food safety): preparation, serving, storage, and distribution
• Conduct sanitation inspections at food vendors awarded patient feeding contracts, as permitted by the chain of command
• Ensure food vendors deliver foods under appropriate temperature and sanitation conditions. Monitor temperatures of incoming potentially hazardous foods (PHF)
• Oversee and assist with general sanitation.
• Provide basic food safety training for volunteers and staff
• Alert chain of command and then safety officer and initiate epidemiologic surveillance and investigation at first sign of suspected food contamination or foodborne illness outbreak

Competencies:

• Manage all aspects of the Planning Section, (covering prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery mission areas)
• Manage the preparation of strategies & plans for the incident
• Submit incident status reports
• Prepare, collects, evaluates, disseminates, and uses incident information to develop the Incident Action Plan
• Facilitate incident information to maintain situational awareness (current and future)
• Provide periodic predictions on incident potential and incident course of actions
• Coordinate planning efforts at the local level
• Establish or transition into the Planning Section
• Supervise and configure section with units and single resources as necessary
• Activities that support the incident management process, including completing the incident action plan and support plans and accomplishing incident information processing. This contrasts with preparedness planning, which is designed to ready a system for response. Responsible for training deployed officers to ensure they are indoctrinated into their area of operations.

Competencies:

• Develop all tactical operations at the incident, and in the Incident Command System, includes branches, divisions and/or groups, Task Forces, Strike Teams, Single Resources, and Staging Areas.
• Involved in patient evacuation, emergency planning, construction, health systems design, data systems design, and transportation

Competencies:

• Responsible for all financial, administrative, and cost analysis aspects of an incident
• Maintain daily contact with agency administrative headquarters on finance and administration matters
• Meets with assisting and cooperating agency representatives
• Advises the Incident Commander on financial and administrative matters
• Develops the operating plan for the Finance/Administration Section
• Coordinates finances at the local level
• Establishes or transitions into an existing Finance/Administration Section
• Supervises and configures section with units to support as necessary

Competencies:

• Serves as the single point of contact for representatives of government departments and agencies (such as Federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial), as well as for jurisdictions, Nongovernmental Organizations (NGO), private sector organizations, and other cooperating agencies and organizations, and speaks on behalf of the Incident Commander (IC) or center director
• Ensures that those who are not part of the command staff, but who contribute to the incident’s prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery, receive appropriate information and exchange communications with the Incident Management Team (IMT) or Emergency Operations Center staff

Competencies:

• Monitors and assesses safety hazards
• Develops measures for ensuring personnel safety
• Inspects facilities for safety hazards
• Participates in developing the Incident Action Plan (IAP) regarding safety implications
• Provides safety briefings and distributes safety messages
• Monitors incident operations and advises the Incident Commander (IC) or center director on all matters relating to the health and safety of emergency response personnel
• Stops and prevents unsafe actions during incident operations