Introduction
UIC follows emergency management principles that emphasize a whole community approach, focusing on the ongoing development, improvement, and exercising of its operations to ensure a resilient institution committed to the safety and well-being of its community. By being flexible and strategic, UIC is able to prepare for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the impacts of emergencies.
In case of an emergency or planned event, all areas of the UIC community are required to cooperate with requests from the Chancellor’s Emergency Operations Policy Group and the Campus Incident Response Teams.
Emergency Operations Plan
The UIC Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) has been developed for UIC as a comprehensive, organized document that outlines the strategies, procedures, and responsibilities required to effectively prepare for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the impacts of emergencies, incidents, or events that affect the UIC community. Aspects of the EOP include, but are not limited to:
- Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment
- National Incident Management System (NIMS) overview to include identification of Incident Command System (ICS) positions
- Organizational Charts for our Campus Incident Response Teams (CIRT) – CIRT – Chicago and CIRT – Rockford
- Incident Response Locations
- UIC Organizations and Responsibilities
- Recovery
- Training and Exercise
The EOP is a “living” document and prepared in compliance with the Federal National Response Framework (NRF), the National Incident Management System (NIMS), the Illinois Emergency Management Agency-Office of Homeland Security (IEMA-OHS) Act (20 ILCS 3305 and 29 ILCS 305), the Higher Education Opportunity Act (20 U.S.C 1001), the Campus Security Enhancement Act of 2008 (110 ILCS 12), and related actions as governed by the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (Stafford Act) (42 U.S.C. 5121).
The University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences Systems (UI Health) has its own Emergency Management Plan. UIC and UI Health developed a collaborative process ensuring transparency and information sharing, planning, training and exercise initiatives, and a continuous review and evaluation of response and recovery protocols.