Incident Response Team

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(Ad hoc Structure – invoked for major incidents)

Membership

• Manager, Security  (delegate)
• Manager, Campus Services
• ECO (Chief Warden and Warden network)
• Operational personnel
• Other personnel co-opted as required

Roles and Responsibilities

Members of the Incident Response Team are responsible for :

• Co-ordination of the University’s response “on the ground”, including the provision of information & instruction to the ECO network(s) involved
• Preparing the Emergency Control Centre for activation
• Managing access to the campus, maintaining communications and allocating resources
• Ongoing liaison with Emergency Services and ECO networks
• Ongoing assessment of the threat and notification of the Incident Management Task Group if required
• Ongoing liaison with the Emergency Director
• Maintaining an Emergency Log of actions taken
• Summarising the issues identified (if applicable) and attending the emergency debrief(s)