Essential Personnel Are Instrumental in Preparing For, Responding To, and Recovering From an Emergency or Incident.
In order to provide for the safety and well-being of the campus community and to continue critical operations, certain designated employees will need to report to work during an emergency event. Essential personnel are broken into two groups: critical and emergency support personnel.
Critical Personnel
Personnel whose job duties affect the security, safety, or physical operation of the University, and who are required to work in the Emergency Operations Center when normal campus operations have been suspended.
Emergency Support Personnel
Personnel with specific duties or skills as provided in their job descriptions that support critical personnel in completing vital tasks
Activation As Needed
Depending on the type, size, and scale of the incident, personnel are activated as needed throughout the duration of the incident. This is why it is important to understand your role and responsibility and to know the chain of command.
Personnel who are not activated are expected to comply with instructions and information
provided by the University and to not report to the campus until an activation order
is received.
FGCU Emergency Operation Center
The FGCU Department of Emergency Management operates a hybrid emergency operations center (EOC), which serves as the central point for University response and recovery efforts. Regardless of the incident, the EOC can support response and recovery activities in a scalable, adaptable, and flexible manner.
| Function | description |
|---|---|
| Information collection and evaluation | Collecting, analyzing, and interpreting information from various sources |
| Priority setting | Deciding which requests have priority based on resource availability, current objectives, and policies and procedures |
| Communications facilitation | Establishing interoperable communications among all partners as necessary for the response |
| Coordination | Coordinating the information flow and resources for complex incidents or multiple incidents occurring simultaneously |
| Cooperation | Cooperating between all internal and external stakeholders to meet the goals and objectives of the EOC |
| Collaboration | Collaborating between staff, resources, or other parties to achieve a common goal |
Additional Training
Selected FGCU employees have been designated as critical personnel within Workday and have been assigned three training modules to educate and prepare essential personnel for their role and responsibilities before, during, and after an incident.
Essential personnel are encouraged to explore the following free virtual trainings:
IS-100.c: Introduction to the Incident Command System
IS-230.E: Fundamentals of Emergency Management
IS-363: Introduction to Emergency Management for Higher Education
IS-1300.A: Introduction to Continuity
Personnel Resources
Critical personnel are expected to track their time worked during an emergency situation. Please see the following emergency time tracking resources.
