Continuity of Operations (COOP) Plan (Under Emergency Management)

You are tasked with creating portions of a continuity of operations (COOP) plan to cover contingencies for a complex disaster scenario affecting your organization, community, jurisdiction, or host country. Use any emergency preparedness plan as the basis for your design or evaluation of the continuity of operations plan.

Your tasks:

• Write portions of a full COOP plan that addresses a crisis/disaster scenario that develops over time and changes phases from threat to actualization.
• Give background information concerning the source of the threat (for natural hazards include the source, intensity, direction, speed, etc.; and for human induced threats describe the perpetrators or the nature of the accident with all the relevant information) (sources may include a hazard mitigation plan and/or THIRA [Threats and Hazards Identification and Risk Assessment]).1
• List the titles and brief explanation of the parties involved in response activities and the stakeholders.
• Delineate the roles, responsibilities, and resources required for the creation and implementation of an effective plan.
• You should also draw upon the laws, bylaws, regulations, and procedures that underlie the concept of the event and response/planning operations.
• Address all of the issues that require effective response involving life safety and short-term recovery. This requires the knowledge of risks, hazards, emergency management, and homeland security doctrines; plus plan and exercise development doctrine, including project/program management.
• Note: References should be APA.