Enriquez, Ilah Reanne S.

BSN4-I
Personnel Roles and Functions for Disaster Preparedness and Responses Plans
A. Incident commander
 An incident commander is an individual responsible for leading and coordinating the response to a critical
incident. ICs are the central authority who makes critical decisions, organizes teams, and oversees the
entire incident response process.
 Responsibilities of an Incident Commander
o Centralized leadership
o Incident preparation
o Efficient decision making
o Delegating tasks
o Overseeing operations
o Escalation and resource coordination
o Postmortems
B. Medical command physician
 A medical command physician functions under the direction of a medical command facility medical
director and the auspices of a medical command facility. A medical command physician is responsible for:
o Providing medical command to EMS providers whenever they seek direction
o Documenting patient information received from EMS providers and medical command given to
EMS providers, including when the medical command physician is providing medical command
at the scene.
C. Triage officer
 responsible for communicating patient counts and needs for supplies and personnel to the medical branch
director, and communicating patient movement to the treatment officer.
 Their primary role is to receive and evaluate incoming inquiries, complaints, or requests for housing
services, such as repairs, maintenance, or tenancy issues.
D. Community Relations for Public Information officer
 A public information officer is a figure who communicates timely information about their organization
with members of the public. Working as a public information officer allows you to fulfill an ambassador
role and regularly interact with the larger community.
E. NDRRM National and Local Council
 NDRRMC serves as the President’s adviser on disaster preparedness programs, disaster operations and
rehabilitation efforts undertaken by the government and the private sector. It acts as the top coordinator of
all disaster management and the highest allocator of resources in the Philippines.
F. Philippine National Red Cross (PNRC)
 main objective is to alleviate human suffering wherever and whenever such situation occurs. During
wartime, the PNRC assumes a neutral, non- combative posture to attend to the wounded.
G. National and Local Health Personnel
 The role of public health providers is to promote, protect, and improve the health of individuals and
communities. After a major disaster, public health workers are often called upon to participate in a
coordinated response to save lives and prevent unfavorable outcomes to vulnerable populations.
H. Department of social welfare and development (DSWD)
 DSWD is the designated Vice-Chair for Response and Early Recovery, and as lead, the DSWD ensures
that the response of the Philippine Government to disasters is well-coordinated, follows established
protocols, and is clearly communicated to the public.
I. Civil society organizations
 CSOs can play an important role to develop a programme of the community-based disaster response and
recovery especially combining and linking more than two disaster management phases such as response,
recovery and mitigation, or recovery, mitigation and preparedness, and eventually to strengthen the
disaster resilience
J. Community volunteers
 Volunteers augment the community’s response capability by performing roles that require less technical
training, allowing professionals to focus on the more highly specialized roles. This means volunteers may
respond in multiple venues and hold varied roles throughout a single response.
K. PAGASA-DOST Weather Forecast
 Provide adequate, up-to-date data, and timely information on atmospheric, astronomical and other
weather-related phenomena using the advances achieved in the realm of science to help government and
the people prepare for calamities caused by typhoons, floods, landslides, storm surges, extreme climatic
events, and climate change
L. Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)
 CRED promotes research, training, and technical expertise in humanitarian emergencies, particularly in
public health and epidemiology.
M. Bureau of Quarantine
 BOQ is mandated to ensure security against the introduction and spread of infectious diseases, emerging
diseases and public health emergencies of international concern