Operations Section: The HICS Section responsible for all tactical operations at the incident. Orders of Succession: Formal, sequential listing of organization positions (rather than specific names of individuals) that identify who is authorized to assume a particular leadership or management role under specific circumstances. OSHPD: California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development. www.oshpd.ca.gov P PIO: See Public Information Officer. Preparedness: The range of deliberate, critical tasks and activities necessary to build, sustain, and improve operational capability to prevent, protect against, respond to, and recover from domestic incidents. Preparedness is a continuous process. Preparedness involves efforts at all levels of government and between government and private-sector and nongovernmental organizations to identify threats, determine vulnerabilities, and identify required resources. Within NIMS, preparedness is operationally focused on establishing guidelines, protocols, and standards for planning, training and exercises, personnel qualification and certification, equipment certification, and publication management. Public Information Officer: A member of the Command Staff responsible for interfacing with the public, media and/or with other community response agencies with incident-related information requirements. R ReddiNet: An emergency medical communications network linking the LA County EMS Agency, hospitals, clinics, other healthcare facilities, paramedics, dispatch centers, and other healthcare system participants. Reconstitution: The return to normal operations once leadership determines that the actual emergency, or the threat of an emergency, is over. Leadership determines priorities and supervises the orderly return to normal operations. Organizations assess the status of affected facilities and transition back into the primary operating facility or a new facility. Recovery: The development, coordination, and execution of service- and site-restoration plans required to return an facility’s processes and support functions to operational stability following an interruption or disaster. Recovery Time Objective: An RTO is considered the maximum amount of downtime that is allowable for a critical process before the impact becomes severe enough to drastically hinder patient safety and/or stop the continuation of business services.
Operations Section: The HICS Section responsible for all tactical operations at the incident. Orders of Succession: Formal, sequential listing of organization positions (rather than specific names of individuals) that identify who is authorized to assume a particular leadership or management role under specific circumstances. OSHPD: California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development. www.oshpd.ca.gov P PIO: See Public Information Officer. Preparedness: The range of deliberate, critical tasks and activities necessary to build, sustain, and improve operational capability to prevent, protect against, respond to, and recover from domestic incidents. Preparedness is a continuous process. Preparedness involves efforts at all levels of government and between government and private-sector and nongovernmental organizations to identify threats, determine vulnerabilities, and identify required resources. Within NIMS, preparedness is operationally focused on establishing guidelines, protocols, and standards for planning, training and exercises, personnel qualification and certification, equipment certification, and publication management. Public Information Officer: A member of the Command Staff responsible for interfacing with the public, media and/or with other community response agencies with incident-related information requirements. R ReddiNet: An emergency medical communications network linking the LA County EMS Agency, hospitals, clinics, other healthcare facilities, paramedics, dispatch centers, and other healthcare system participants. Reconstitution: The return to normal operations once leadership determines that the actual emergency, or the threat of an emergency, is over. Leadership determines priorities and supervises the orderly return to normal operations. Organizations assess the status of affected facilities and transition back into the primary operating facility or a new facility. Recovery: The development, coordination, and execution of service- and site-restoration plans required to return an facility’s processes and support functions to operational stability following an interruption or disaster. Recovery Time Objective: An RTO is considered the maximum amount of downtime that is allowable for a critical process before the impact becomes severe enough to drastically hinder patient safety and/or stop the continuation of business services.