Your Role
During an emergency, you may do what you normally do at your job, or you may be asked to do something completely different.
Being flexible and able to adapt to change is essential.
While some DOH services to the public are essential and must be maintained on a daily basis, there are others that can be temporarily suspended in order to re-direct staff to respond to an emergency. This process is described in the Department’s Continuity of Operations Plans (COOP). During an emergency, you may be asked to perform duties other than what you are assigned on a normal day-to-day basis. In other words, you may be a health educator, but during an emergency you will be asked to work as a greeter at a POD. Or you may answer phones during the day and be asked to work in a phone bank.
