Agriculture and Food Emergency Management System

1. Agriculture and Food Emergency Management System

2. Terminal Learning Objective: The participant will describe the emergency management and response system, identify the four phases of emergency management, recognize measures to defend agriculture and food, describe the incident command system, and identify steps to develop appropriate response plans in local emergencies. Enabling Learning Objectives: 1.1 Describe the emergency management and response system. 1.2 Identify the four phases of emergency management. 1.3 Discuss measures to defend agriculture and food. 1.4 Describe the incident command system. 1.5 Identify steps to develop appropriate response plans in local emergencies. Slide 1-A

3. Objectives for Participants • To become familiar with the emergency management and response system • To recognize the four phases of emergency management • To gain an understanding of measures to defend agriculture and food • To become familiar with the incident command system • To develop an understanding of appropriate response plans in local emergencies Slide 2

4. Emergency Management and Response System • National system to prepare for and respond to emergencies/ disasters Goal: • Save lives • Prevent injuries • Protect property and equipment Slide 3

5. All Hazards EM principals used in “All Hazards” • Threats to life and property • Natural or manmade • Domestic or foreign • Emergency – refers to small, localized incident which can be managed using local resources. • Disaster – refers to a large-scale, cross-boundary incident causing significant human and economic loss requiring a greater level of response. Slide 4

6. Four Phases of Emergency Management • Mitigation / Prevention • Preparedness • Response • Recovery Slide 5

7. Mitigation / Prevention • Prevent the emergency from happening • Reduce the chances of an emergency happening, or • Reduce the damage of unavoidable emergencies Slide 6

8. Preparedness • Develop emergency supply lists • Create a roster of trained responders • Prepare a continuity of operations plan (COOP) • Stockpile vaccines, supplies and equipment Slide 7

9. Response • Quarantine • Contain or eradicate the disease • Increase surveillance and testing • Depopulate and dispose • Set up a public relations effort with constant, accurate updates Slide 8

10. Recovery • Actions after an emergency to return to normal and to make things even safer. • First step: restore consumer confidence that danger is over. • Financial assistance to replace losses: • Depopulated livestock, • Destroyed crops and soil, • Unusable facilities & equipment, • Wages Slide 9

11. Effective Emergency Management plans • Written • Simple • Properly disseminated • Routinely tested • Routinely revised and updated Slide 10

12. The YOYO period • First few hours or days after an outbreak people at the facility & local officials are on their own for all practical purposes. • The YOYO period • You’re On Your Own Slide 11

13. At the local level • Recognize • Avoid • Isolate • Notify R-A-I-N Slide 12

14. Plans • National Response Plan • ESF 11 • Georgia Emergency Operations Plan • ESF 11 • Local Emergency Operations Plan • ESF 11 & Ag Annex Slide 13

15. EM in agriculture and food • In addition to protecting against acts of terrorism, agrosecurity is just plain good management. • A biosecure facility will have fewer disease introductions, healthier animals and crops, fewer problems with unintentional contamination and consequently greater profits. Slide 14

16. Initiatives to Protect Agriculture and Food • The National Veterinary Stockpile Quantities of vaccines, antiviral or therapeutic products to respond to animal disease; deployment within 24 hours • The National Plant Disease Recovery System Respond to high-consequence plant disease with pest control and use of resistant seed • Food Emergency Response Network Surveillance and sampling to detect biological, chemical and radiological agents • Georgia state and county agricultural response teams Homeland Security Presidential Directive/HSPD-9 Subject: Defense of United States Agriculture and FoodJanuary 30, 2004 Slide 15

17. National Incident Management System(NIMS) “…a consistent nationwide approach for federal, state, tribal, and local governments to work effectively and efficiently together to prepare for, prevent, respond to, and recover from domestic incidents, regardless of cause, size, or complexity.” Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD-5) Slide 16

18. Types of Incidents • Planned events • Fire, both structural and wildfire • Hazardous materials incidents • Search and rescue missions • FAD events • Natural disasters • Terrorist/WMD events Slide 17

19. What is Incident Command System? • Standardized, on-scene, all-hazard incident management concept • Allows its users to adopt an integrated organizational structure • Has internal flexibility • A proven management system based on successful business practices • The result of decades of lessons learned in management of emergency incidents Slide 18

20. Principles of ICS • A common organizational structure • Standardized, uniform supervision • Common terminology – plain English • Flexibility to expand or contract • Communications that are standardized • Consolidated action plans • Designated facilities with unified command • Each person reports to only 1 other person • Span of control is 1:5 Slide 19

21. Four major management functions Incident Command Finance/ Administration Section Operations Section Planning Section Logistics Section Planning Operations Logistics Finance Slide 20

22. ICS organizational components • Division • Group • Branch • Task Force • Strike Team • Single Resource Slide 21

23. How prepared is our community? Slide 22

24. Reference List For More Information: See Your Textbooks – • Protecting Georgia’s Agriculture and Food – Agrosecurity. Chapter 2. • Protecting America’s Agriculture and Food – Agrosecurity. Chapter 5. Slide 23