Student Health Services Emergency Protocol
Component of SF State SHS Plan To Prepare for, Mitigate against, Respond to, and Recover from a Disaster Affecting SF State University
Emergency Response Plan: Chapter VII: Student Health Services
November 2007
Overview
“Disaster is a crisis situation that far exceeds the capabilities”
Quarentelly, 1985.
A disaster is a serious disruption of the functioning of a community,
area or region, causing widespread human, material or environmental losses
which exceed the ability of affected community, area or region to cope using
only its own resources
A disaster on the SF State Campus may be due to a campus, city, regional or
statewide incident.
Phases of Disaster
(Based on City and County of San Francisco Emergency Operations Plan)
Preparedness Phase
The preparedness phase involves activities that are undertaken in advance of an emergency or disaster. These actions might include emergency/disaster planning, training and exercises, and campus education.
Pre-Incident Actions (Response to Warnings and Credible Threats)
Response Phase
The official response phase follows the formal activation of the SFSU EOC but the SHS may need to respond prior to formal EOC activation if casualties self refer in numbers which exceed the SHS ability to respond under its normal operating procedures.
Recovery Phase
Recovery activities involve the restoration of services to pre-emergency conditions. Recovery activities may include restoration of essential utilities such as water and power, to mitigation measures designed to prevent future occurrences of a given threat. They may reflect the continuation of the response phase activities (i.e., restoration of utilities), or they may include new activities wholly enacted as a part of the recovery process after the disaster has abated (i.e., removal of debris after a flood).
