Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Guide

Pandemic InfluenzaPreparedness, Response, and Recovery Guide for critical infrastructure and key resources

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

PANDEMIC INFLUENZA PREPAREDNESS, RESPONSE, AND RECOVERY GUIDE FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND KEY RESOURCES

For more information including a PDF copy of the CI/KR guide, please visit www.pandemicfl u.gov or email your CI/KR-related questions to dhspandemic@dhs.gov.

Publication date: September 19, 2006

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Table of ContentsExecutive Summary.................................................................................................................................................................................. Section 1: Introduction.............................................................................................................................................................................

1.1 Secretary Chertoffs Message to the Critical Infrastructure and Key Resource Sectors..................................................................1.2 Purpose...........................................................................................................................................................................................1.3 Situation...........................................................................................................................................................................................1.4 Overview of CI/KR Guide Sections..................................................................................................................................................1.5 Guide Distribution Versions..............................................................................................................................................................

Section 2: Roles, Responsibilities, and Authorities-Summary.............................................................................................................2.1 Overview..........................................................................................................................................................................................2.2 What Should Private Sector Businesses Know, and Why?..............................................................................................................2.3 What are Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources or CI/KR?....................................................................................................... 2.4 Why is this Important for Businesses?.............................................................................................................................................2.5 Roles and Responsibilities...............................................................................................................................................................

Section 3: Pandemic Infl uenza Context-Summary................................................................................................................................3.1 Overview..........................................................................................................................................................................................3.2 Why is this Important for Business?.................................................................................................................................................3.3 National Context..............................................................................................................................................................................3.4 International Context........................................................................................................................................................................3.5 U.S. National Alert Stages................................................................................................................................................................

Section 4: Pandemic Implications for Businesses................................................................................................................................4.1 Overview of Business Continuity of Operations Plan-Essential (COP-E)........................................................................................ 4.2 Defi ning Essential..........................................................................................................................................................................4.3 Pandemic Planning Assumptions and Impacts................................................................................................................................

Section 5: Continuity of Operations-Essential (COP-E) Guide............................................................................................................5.1 Develop and Implement a Continuity of Operations Plan................................................................................................................5.2 How Does COP-E Fit with Current Contingency Plans?.................................................................................................................. 5.3 Why COP-E is Important to the Private Sector................................................................................................................................ 5.4 The COP-E Planning Process.........................................................................................................................................................5.5 COP-E Scenario-Driven Pandemic Planning...................................................................................................................................5.6 COP-E Phases: Planning, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery..............................................................................................

Section 6: Partnerships and Information Sharing.................................................................................................................................6.1 Essential Partnership for Success...................................................................................................................................................6.2 Facilitate Public-Private Partnerships..............................................................................................................................................6.3 Identify and Enhance Partner Interdependencies............................................................................................................................6.4 DHS Partnering and Information-Sharing Capabilities and Initiatives..............................................................................................6.5 Partnering and Information-Sharing Points of Contact.....................................................................................................................

Section 7: Public and Media Relations...................................................................................................................................................7.1 Communicating with the Public........................................................................................................................................................ 7.2 Communicating with Employees and their Families.........................................................................................................................7.3 Communicating with the Media........................................................................................................................................................

Annexes and AppendicesNOTE: When completed and approved, the full Annex (all Sector-Specifi c Checklists, Roles and Responsibilities, and Pandemic Context) and the Appendix (Pandemic Scenarios, COP-E templates, and Web links) will be available in the reference Pandemic Guide.

Public health experts warn pandemic infl uenza poses a signifi cant risk to the United States and the

worldonly its timing, severity, and exact strain remain uncertain. International, Federal, State, local,

and tribal government agencies are diligently planning for the public health response to this potential

pandemic. The disease could be severe and could affect our critical infrastructure and our nations

economic and social security. It is important that you take action.

As part of the U.S. Governments pandemic preparedness strategy, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) supports the eff orts of the public and private sector Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CI/KR) community and their businesses to develop and execute their essential pandemic contingency plans and preparedness actions. The Pandemic Infl uenza Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Guide is one of the practical tools DHS has developed for business owner-operators and their contingency planners to enhance pandemic planning.This guide assembles the primary government and pandemic infl uenza-specifi c background material, references, and contacts all in one place. It introduces an enhanced contingency planning process for a pandemic and provides business planners with numerous sector-specifi c and common pandemic infl uenza planning variables keyed to escalating disaster phases. This Guide will complement and enhance, not replace, extensive private sector contingency planning already in place.

The primary purpose of this Guide is to stimulate the U.S. private sector business community to act now. With this Guide, DHS hopes to assist our nations 17 CI/KR sectors, and business and industry in general, with the actions they shoul