Organize and manage the services required to sustain and repair the hospital’s infrastructure operations, including: power/lighting, water/sewer, HVAC, buildings and
grounds, medical gases, medical devices, structural integrity, environmental services, and food services.
Update Secondary Person Responsible:
Documents/Tools:
• Incident Action Plan
• Hospital emergency operations plan
• Hospital organization chart
• Hospital telephone directory
• Radio/satellite phone
• Facility maps and ancillary services schematics
• Vendor support and repair directory
1. Receive appointment and briefing from the Operations Section Chief. Obtain packet containing Infrastructure Branch Job Action Sheets.
2. Read this entire Job Action Sheet and review incident management team chart (HICS Form 207). Put on position identification.
3. Notify your usual supervisor of your HICS assignment.
4. Appoint Infrastructure Branch Unit Leaders and complete the Branch Assignment List(HICS Form 204).
5. Brief the Infrastructure Branch on current situation, incident objectives and strategy; outline Branch action plan and designate time for next briefing.
6. Document all key activities, actions, and decisions in an Operational Log (HICS Form 214) on a continual basis.
7. Assess Infrastructure Branch capacity to deliver needed:
• Facility heating and air conditioning
• Power
• Telecommunications
• Potable and non-potable water
• Medical gas delivery
• Sanitation
• Road clearance
• Damage assessment and repair
• Facility cleanliness
• Vertical transport
• Facility access
8. Assess problems and needs in Branch area; coordinate resource management.
9. Ensure Branch personnel comply with safety policies and procedures.
10. Instruct all Unit Leaders to evaluate on-hand equipment, supply, and medication inventories and staff needs, in collaboration with Logistics Section’s Service and Support Branches or Units, as appropriate; report status to the Operations Section Chief and the Support Branch or Supply Unit Leader, as appropriate.
11. Meet regularly with the Operations Section Chief to discuss plan of action and staffing.
12. Initiate facility damage assessment in collaboration with Logistics Section’s Facilities Unit, if warranted; repair problems encountered, and update the Operations Section Chief of the situation. Assist in completion of the Facility System Status Report (HICS Form 251)
13. Document all communications (internal and external) on an Incident Message Form (HICS Form 213). Provide a copy of the Incident Message Form to the Documentation Unit.
Ongoing Duties:
1. Continue coordinating facility support services.
2. Ensure prioritization of problems when multiple issues are presented.
3. Ensure documentation records are completed correctly and collected.
4. Coordinate use of external resources to assist with maintenance and repairs.
5. Report equipment needs to the Supply Unit Leader.
6. Supervise salvage operations with the Operations Section Chief, if indicated.
7. Ensure staff health and safety issues are being addressed; resolve with Infrastructure Branch Director, Safety Officer and Employee Health and Well-Being Unit Leader.
8. Develop and submit a Branch action plan to the Operations Section Chief when requested.
9. Advise the Operations Section Chief immediately of any operational issue you are not able to correct or resolve.
10. Meet regularly with Operations Section Chief for status reports, and relay important information to Branch staff.
11. Continue coordinating facility support services.
12. Ensure documentation and records are being completed correctly and collected.
