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Ensure that system is fully in place for Prepare and deliver all required record-
5 rotating and/or relieving staff throughout 6 keeping supplies to Site Coordinator
duration of site activation. prior to site opening.

In the case of an unannounced exercise that included the objective of assessing the process by
which the LPHA moved to open a mass distribution site, including logistics, notification of Developing an Evaluation Plan
staff, and just-in-time training, the evaluation criteria would also include the following:

Criteria for Communication

1 Establish liaison with jurisdiction-wide Establish a schedule to update partners
Joint Information Center (JIC) within 4
on a regular basis.
15 minutes of notifying the Incident
Commander (IC) that the JIC is Test backup communications
operational. 5 procedures.

2 Draft and approve public information for Identify a public health spokesperson
anticipated phases of response within 2 6
whose expertise is applicable to the nature
hours of establishing the agency’s EOC. of the emergency (e.g., Health Director,
Health Officer, Epidemiologist, etc.).
3 Identify key partners (e.g., other health 7 Develop and convey Single Overriding
jurisdictions, law enforcement, hospitals,
etc.) and convey initial public health Communication Objective (SOCO)
information to these partners no later through the ICS structure.
than one (1) hour after approval of such
8 (e.g., posted to Situation Boards, etc.)
information by the agency’s IC. Update and distribute the SOCO
as needed, but at least every 4 hours.

Once an LPHA identifies the functional roles to be activated, the expected duties of each role
related to each objective can be inserted into the observer format, as illustrated in the Sample
Role Evaluation Checklist for Clinic Manager (Flu), in Appendix F, pages 56–59.

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