Emergency Operations Plan

Section 1. Overview

Purpose

Colorado School of Mines (Mines) is vulnerable to a number of natural and human-caused hazards that can affect the welfare and operations of the campus community, property and reputation. To effectively prepare for and respond to these hazards the school has prepared this Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) for use by the campus Emergency Operations Team (EOT).

This EOP is an “all-hazards” document and designed to be flexible enough that these general procedures can applied during any type of emergency.

This plan assigns roles and responsibilities to departments and personnel that are directly responsible for emergency response efforts and critical support services, and provides a management structure for coordinating and deploying essential resources.

Scope of the Plan

Preparedness activities will be conducted to develop the response capabilities needed in the event of an The EOP covers responses to incidents occurring on the main Mines campus, Mines Park, Edgar Mine in Idaho Springs, Colorado and at the Water Technology Hub in Aurora, Colorado. This plan could be adapted to address incidents that befall Mines community members away from campus for example, traveling athletics teams and study abroad students. This plan may be activated in response to a regional or national crisis affecting or with the potential to affect campus such as global pandemics or terrorist attacks. The premise of this plan is based on capabilities-based planning.

This plan does not address planned occurrences/events such as E-Days, Commencement or Homecoming; safety for these events is managed through the event planning process by the event coordinator. This plan is not intended to address minor incidents that happen on a regular basis and do not cause widespread problems or necessitate a larger coordinated response effort.

This plan uses the principles and concepts of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and describes a standardized response approach based upon the NIMS Incident Command System (ICS). The ICS is a team-based, action-oriented emergency management structure widely adopted and utilized throughout the geographical region and nation.

The EOP is an overview document describing the campus emergency plans. More prescriptive emergency management activities are described in related procedures and training programs.