Clark County EOP Basic Plan 1. Introduction and the public, including survivors of an incident. Whole community planning also means engaging populations and partners who may not traditionally have been engaged and considering how actions guided by an emergency plan may impact disadvantaged communities. Every person who lives or works in the community shares responsibility for minimizing the impact of disasters on the community. These individual responsibilities include hazard awareness, knowledge of appropriate protective actions, taking proactive steps to mitigate the impact of anticipated hazards, and preparations for personal and family safety, as well as the self-sufficiency of neighborhoods. To the greatest extent possible, the County will inform and assist their constituencies, residents, and visitors in carrying out this responsibility by offering preparedness information, public information during an emergency, and critical public services during a disaster. 1.2 Purpose and Scope 1.2.1 Purpose The primary purpose of the EOP is to outline the County’s all-hazard approach to emergency operations in order to protect the safety, health, and welfare of their citizens throughout all emergency management mission areas. Through this EOP, the County designate the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and the Incident Command System (ICS) as the frameworks to conduct all emergency management activities. 1.2.2 Scope The EOP is implemented whenever the County must respond to an emergency incident or planned event for which the size or complexity is beyond that normally handled by routine operations. Such occurrences may include natural, technological, or human-caused disasters and may impact any area of the county. This plan is intended to guide the County’s emergency operations while complementing and informing the emergency response plans and procedures of other local, State of Nevada (State), and federal entities, as well as private-sector resources such as community- or faith-based organizations. The primary users of this plan are elected and appointed governmental officials, agency and department heads and their senior staff members, emergency management staff, lead response agencies, and other stakeholders that support emergency operations, such as Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters, school districts, assisted living facilities, and other nonprofit and for-profit organizations. The public is also welcome to read the EOP for their own information about how the County plans to prepare for and manage emergencies. The EOP provides the framework for emergency operations throughout the community. It does not replace the need for departmental-level standard operating procedures (SOPs) and standard operating guides (SOGs) to perform their EOP responsibilities and assignments. While other governmental and nongovernmental resources are identified in this EOP as having specific roles and responsibilities, those resources are responsible for developing and implementing their own EOP/SOP/SOG. 1-2