Function-specific plans

Function-specific plans (sometimes called 'functional plans') are those that are designed to enable given sets of tasks to be carried out smoothly and in a coordinated fashion. These sets of tasks or functions almost invariably relate to response and recovery activities.

Some of the response and recovery functions that benefit by planning include:

• medical and health
• transport
• engineering
• search and rescue
• welfare
• public information
• evacuation
• disaster assessment
• bomb disposal.

The plan for each of these functions requires many of the basic features of plans, such as a description of the problem being addressed, management structure, a description of roles and responsibilities, the alerting and warning procedure and phases, and perhaps contact numbers. But they may also require information specific to the given function.

Activity 11.2 For instance, what specific information do you think may be required in an evacuation plan? (If you were in charge, what would you need to know?) Jot down the information that you consider would be required in an evacuation functional specific plan.   What specific information do you think would be required in a public information plan?   Read Reading 2 'What to think about before you write an emergency public information plan'.   After you have completed this reading, review your answer to the above question. Print this activity

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