CONTINUITY OF OPERATIONS PLAN TEMPLATE - Sedgwick County

This section should identify the immediate objectives that have tobe met to result in the transition of operations to the alternatefacility. These objectives include, but are not limited to:• Notification and deployment of essential COOP personnel.• Accessing and transporting drive-away kits.• Transportation of staff and required resources.• Continued maintenance of minimum communication, anddirection and control standards.• Providing staff with deployment instructions and maps.• Orientation of personnel at the alternate facility.• Ensuring that all deployment responsibilities outlined inSection 5 of the Basic Plan (COOP Responsibilities) aremet.Relocation planning should also address needs of non-essentialstaff especially in events that occur during normal, duty hourswhere the primary facility population is at its highest.c. Leadership and Essential COOP Personnel(1) Orders of SuccessionThis section should include the identification of at leastthree successors for each essential position tasked in theCOOP plan, including each member of COOP response andrecovery teams.This section should further identify circumstances that willresult in successions, method of notification, and anytemporal, geographical, or organizational limitation ofauthority that need to be considered. This should not beconfused with the transfer of authority which is discussedin the next section.Annex H (Orders of Succession) provides a worksheet toidentify positions responsible to act as successors toessential COOP personnel.(2) Delegation of AuthorityThis section identifies, by position, the requirements andlimitations to transfer authority for making policydeterminations and decisions at headquarters, field levels,and other organizational locations, as required andappropriate. Accountability provisions should be includedwith the delegation and circumstances described which14