Emergency Operations Plan – Personnel
4. Incident Response and Incident Management Personnel
Incident Response and Incident Management Personnel provide response to and management of campus emergency incidents.
A. First Responders – provide initial response to and management of campus emergency incidents.
1. Ithaca Campus
a. Cornell University Police Department
b. Cornell University Environment, Health and Safety
c. Cornell University Emergency Medical Service
d. Cornell University Community Response Team
2. Non-Ithaca Campus Locations
a. Local police, fire, and emergency medical services
b. Local campus representative or designee.
B. Emergency Support Function (ESF) Personnel – provide ESF response to and management of campus emergency incidents.
1. Office of Emergency Management Personnel
2. Facilities and Campus Services Personnel
3. Student and Campus Life Personnel
4. Human Resources Personnel
5. University Relations Personnel
6. Information Technologies Personnel
7. Procurement Services Personnel
8. Public Safety Communications Center Personnel
9. Animal Care Personnel
C. Incident Support Personnel – support campus emergency incidents. These roles are in addition to any first responder or Emergency Support Function roles listed elsewhere in this plan.
1. Environment, Health and Safety
- Guide decisions and actions related to safety of campus and incident operations
- Guide decisions and actions related to compliance with environmental and research regulations
2. Cornell Police (in addition to first responder roles listed in section A)
- Guide decisions and actions related to Clery Act compliance
3. Human Resources
- Guide decisions and actions related to employment and employees
4. Risk Management and Insurance
- Guide decisions and actions related to risk tolerance and liability awareness
- Guide decisions and actions related to damage documentation and insurance claims
- Guide operations for incidents involving international university travel
- Guide decisions and actions related to continuity and recovery strategies
5. Academic Operations
- Guide decisions and actions related to university academic operations
- Liaison to academic operations as outlined in the Incident Support Personnel: Academic Operations Annex
6. Research Operations
- Guide decisions and actions related to university research operations
- Liaison to research operations as outlined in the Incident Support Personnel: Research Operations Annex
7. University Compliance Office
- Guide decisions and actions related to compliance with regulatory and university policies.
D. Incident Management Team (IMT) – Team of personnel assembled to provide management of and support to campus emergency response, continuity, and recovery operations.
1. The IMT role and organization will vary based on the specifics of the incident including:
- Incident size, scope, and complexity
- The presence of or lack of field operations
- Secondary impacts of the incident on campus operations
- The need for implementation of continuity of operations plans
2. Incident Management Team membership will be based on the needs of the incident and may include representatives from:
- Units responsible for Emergency Support Functions
- Units responsible for providing Incident Support
- Campus units impacted by the emergency incident (directly or indirectly)
3. IMT role and organization for each incident will be determined by Office of Emergency Management personnel in consultation with any on-scene Incident/Unified Command. The IMT may function:
- As a functional coordination center providing resources and support to on-scene Incident/Unified Command. On-scene Incident/Unified Command may ask the IMT for support with non-scene tasks such as public information and alerting, logistics coordination, incident planning, intelligence gathering, etc.
- Directly as Incident/Unified Command with on-scene activities being managed by an on-site Operations Branch reporting to the IMT.
- Directly as Incident/Unified Command responsible for secondary impacts to University operations and continuity while also providing functional coordination center support to on-scene Incident/Unified Command. (In this structure there may be two incident commanders. One on site managing the primary incident and one on the IMT managing the secondary impacts of the primary incident on the rest of the campus.)
- As Incident/Unified Command for incidents that do not involve field operations.
- As Area Command for incidents involving on-scene activities at multiple locations.
- To manage and support continuity and/or recovery operations.
4. In all cases, the IMT will provide coordination and delivery of capabilities outlined in the Emergency Support Function (ESF) Annexes of this document.
5. Incident Management Team membership and organization may change as incidents move from response operations to recovery operations
E. Incident Leadership Team (ILT) – Team of University executive level personnel assembled to provide strategic guidance and resources during emergency incidents.
1. The ILT will provide as needed:
a. Fiscal authorizations
b. Strategic prioritizations
c. Strategic guidance of recovery and resumption of normal operations
d. Communications with the Office of the President and other executive authorities
2. ILT members are the following roles:
a. Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
b. Vice President Facilities and Campus Services
c. Vice President Human Resources
d. Vice President Student and Campus Life
e. Vice President University Relations
f. Vice President Information Technologies and Chief Information Officer
g. Senior Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate School
h. Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
i. President’s Chief of Staff
j. Vice President and General Counsel
k. Vice President and Chief Risk Officer
l. Associate Vice President Division of Public Safety
m. Cornell Police Chief
n. Senior Director Environment, Health and Safety
o. Subject matter experts as appropriate to the incident
F. President’s Office – President and Provost
1. Support the ILT through the following methods:
- Determine policy and make policy level decisions
- Provide communications to and from the Board of Trustees
- Provide strategic guidance for campus recovery
- Act as University spokesperson, as appropriate
G. Subordinates to the President
1. Senior University and college administrators will participate on the ILT at the request of the ILT members.
2. University and college administrators may be requested to take functional roles providing support to the ILT or the President’s Office.