Command Work Products - Objectives by Category

Additional Response Objectives by Category
Safety
Ensure the safety and welfare of citizens and response personnel.
Ensure the safety and security of responders as well as maximize the protection of public health and welfare.
Search and Rescue
Locate and evacuate all personnel.
Provide life-saving assistance to persons in distress.
Mobilize resources to locate, rescue, evacuate, transport and support all personnel in the incident.
Assist in joint agency Search And Rescue (SAR) efforts.
Assist in Urban Search And Rescue (USAR).
Account for and provide temporary shelter for displaced personnel.
Complete accountability for all personnel.
Mass Care
Establish medical triage along with transport to hospital.
Complete triage of injured passengers and crew and transport to hospital.
Evacuate victims to medical transfer areas or facilities once rescued from immediate peril.
Develop and implement an evacuation plan.
Recovery and Restoration
Repair damaged power lines, transformers, and other utility infrastructure.
Assess roads, bridges, and railroads for hazards or other damage. Repair and reopen.
Organize and execute debris removal. Consider type of debris and any potential safety hazards.
Restore phone lines, cell phone towers, or other impacted communications infrastructure.
Conduct DAT assessment, consider long-term housing outlook for displaced persons.
Provide public access to potable water; repair damage to sewage system to ensure sanitary conditions.	172

Additional Response Objectives by Category (continued)

Port, Waterways, and Coastal Security/Law Enforcement

Implement security awareness measures including evaluation of changes in incident effects, response conditions, and secondary threats, including potential targeting of first responders and contamination.

Implement measures to isolate, contain and stabilize the incident, including establishment and adjustment of security perimeters.

Implement agency and maritime community security plans, including Area Maritime Security Plans (AMSP), to deter and prevent multiple security incidents.

Establish incident security plan including identification badges and other scene control measures.

Respond to potential and actual security threats.

Implement scene integrity and evidence preservation procedures.

Implement procedures that ensure a coordinated effort is in place for investigation, evidence collection, storage and disposal.

Investigate cause of incident.

Identify and implement witness/passenger recovery location(s).

Establish incident security plan including access documentation (e.g. badge control procedures) and other access control measures.

Establish and continue enforcement of safety/security zones.

Establish/conduct shoreline security to coincide with incident activities and enhanced prevention requirements.

Perform maritime law enforcement as required.

Request that governmental aviation authority implement air space closure and monitoring for compliance. Identify and protect high profile targets.

Fire/Salvage

Commence fire fighting operations and contain, extinguish and overhaul fire.

Conduct damage/stability assessment; develop and implement a salvage plan.

Implement the salvage and tow plan.

Additional Response Objectives by Category (continued)

Waterways Management

Conduct port assessment and establish priorities for facilitating commerce.

Assist in development/implementation of transit plan to include final destination/berth for vessel(s).

Identify safe refuge/berth for impacted vessels.

Establish and maintain close coordination for possible movement of National Security assets (Military).

Restore maritime commerce and operations.

Oil/HAZMAT Spills

Initiate actions to control the source and minimize the volume released.

Determine oil/hazmat fate and effect (trajectories) identify sensitive areas, develop strategies for protection and conduct pre-impact shoreline debris removal.

Contain, treat and recover spilled material (Oil/Hazmat).

Conduct an assessment and initiate shoreline cleanup efforts.

Remove product from impacted areas.

Conduct efforts to effectively contain, clean up, recover and dispose of spilled product.

Environmental

Identify and protect environmental sensitive areas including wildlife and historic properties.

Clearly identify and delineate environmentally sensitive areas and historical landmarks that may be or have been impacted by the incident.

Identify and maximize the protection of environmental sensitive areas.

Identify threatened species and prepare to recover and rehabilitate injured wildlife.

Investigate the potential for and if feasible, use alternative technologies to support response efforts.

Additional Response Objectives by Category (continued)

Management

Maintain situation awareness through a systematic process for tasking, collecting processing, analyzing and disseminating information. Coordinate remote sensing activities to satisfy CIRs.

Manage a coordinated interagency response effort that reflects the makeup of Unified Command.

Establish an appropriate Incident Management Team (IMT) organization that can effectively meet the initial and long term challenges required to mitigate the incident.

Identify all appropriate agency/organization mandates, practices, and protocols for inclusion in the overall response effort.

Identify and minimize social, political and economic adverse effects.

Implement a coordinated response with law enforcement and other responding agencies including Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and the Joint Field Office (JFO).

Evaluate all planned actions to determine potential impacts on social, political and economic entities.

Identify competing response activities (i.e., law enforcement and mitigation) to ensure that they are closely coordinated.

Establish a Family Assistance Program and assign a coordinator.

Establish a Volunteer Management Program and assign a coordinator.

Establish a Vessels of Opportunity Program and assign a coordinator.

Develop and implement multi-language/culture outreach program.

Identify and establish incident support facilities to support interagency response efforts.

Keep the public, stakeholders and the media informed of response activities.

Ensure appropriate financial accounting practices are established and adhered to.

Establish internal/external resource ordering procedures are established and adhered to.

Establish an incident documentation system.

Establish an appropriate structure to facilitate communications with stakeholders and agency/organization coordination facilities.