Agriculture and Food

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• Agriculture and Food
• Emergency Management System

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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.
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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

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Emergency Management and Response System

• National system to prepare for and respond to
  emergencies/ disasters
• Goal
• Save lives
• Prevent injuries
• Protect property and equipment

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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.

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Four Phases of Emergency Management

1. Mitigation / Prevention
2. Preparedness
3. Response
4. Recovery

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Mitigation / Prevention

• Prevent the emergency from happening
• Reduce the chances of an emergency happening, or
• Reduce the damage of unavoidable emergencies

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Preparedness

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

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Response

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

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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

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Effective Emergency Management plans

• Written
• Simple
• Properly disseminated
• Routinely tested
• Routinely revised and updated

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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
• Youre On Your Own

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At the local level

• Recognize
• Avoid
• Isolate
• Notify

R-A-I-N
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Plans

• National Response Plan
• ESF 11
• Georgia Emergency Operations Plan
• ESF 11
• Local Emergency Operations Plan
• ESF 11 Ag Annex

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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.

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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
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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)

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Types of Incidents

• Planned events
• Fire, both structural and wildfire
• Hazardous materials incidents
• Search and rescue missions
• FAD events
• Natural disasters
• Terrorist/WMD events

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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

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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 15

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Four major management functions
Planning
Operations
Logistics
Finance
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ICS organizational components

• Division
• Group
• Branch
• Task Force
• Strike Team
• Single Resource

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How prepared is our community?
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Reference List For More Information

• See Your Textbooks
• Protecting Georgias Agriculture and Food
  Agrosecurity. Chapter 2.
• Protecting Americas Agriculture and Food
  Agrosecurity. Chapter 5.

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