Organization and Assignment of Responsibilities

The Organization and Assignment of Responsibilities section establishes an operational organization that is charged to respond to all hazards. It includes a list of tasks to be performed by position and organization.

Although the primary purpose of the EOP is incident management, your school’s EOP may identify pre-incident roles and responsibilities for prevention, protection, and mitigation activities.

  Organization and Assignment of Responsibilities

  • Pre-incident (prevention, protection, and mitigation) roles
    • Intelligence/Information Gatherer: Conduct hazard analysis.
    • Policy Maker: Develop policies and procedures to reduce risks.
    • Planner: Develop and maintain the EOP.
    • Marketer/Communicator: Sell the concept of prevention, protection, and mitigation.
    • Trainer: Develop and implement training and exercises.
    • Financer: Identify the cost/benefit of implementing prevention, protection, and mitigation measures.
    • Evaluator: Identify best practices and lessons learned.