A school's emergency operations plan should include procedures for each of the functional ICS areas, as well as for others that may be pertinent to the school.

Lesson 5 introduced the roles and responsibilities to include in your school EOP to address the ICS areas:

• Senior Executive (Superintendent, Principal, Emergency Management Official, Elected Official, etc.)
• Incident Commander
• Public Information Officer
• Liaison Officer
• Safety Officer
• Operations Section Chief
• Planning Section Chief
• Logistics Section Chief
• Finance and Administration Section Chief

Note: Your school EOP may need to address how ICS areas will be assigned with limited staff, for example if an incident occurs when school is over for the day.

Click on this link for an overview of the key incident response roles.