OHA Halloween Tips and ShakeOut

From: Poole, Jamie

Sent: Wed Oct 07 10:16:41 2020

Subject: OHA Halloween Tips and ShakeOut

Importance: Normal

City EMs,

I am trying to catch up on email, after being inundated earlier last month. If I owe you something or you have questions about COVID please let me know. I think I’m at a point I can better assist again. J

OHA Halloween Tips

I just saw these OHA Halloween Tips and thought I should share it with all of you. https://www.oregon.gov/oha/ERD/Pages/OHA-provides-tips-for-a-safe-(but-still-spooky-and-fun)-Halloween.aspx

Infographics: https://www.oregon.gov/oha/ERD/Pages/Halloween-Social-Cards.aspx

2020 ShakeOut – Drop, Cover, and Hold on Drill

I encourage all of your agencies to participate in the ShakeOut on October 15 to meet your annual drill requirement (see ORS 401.900 below). This year Clackamas County is taking a minimal approach to the ShakeOut, having county employees practice drop, cover and hold on where they are located at 10:15 on 10/15. We are encouraging employees working from home, to practice their home emergency plan, evacuate their home and meet at their meeting location. Due to COVID-19 county buildings will not evacuate to limit gatherings in stairwells. We will not be doing any subsequent Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) drills, as we are already in a COOP pandemic event.

Clackamas County ShakeOut website: https://www.clackamas.us/shakeout

Oregon ShakeOut website: https://www.shakeout.org/oregon/index.html

ORS 401 - https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors401.html

401.900 State and local agency earthquake drills; rules. (1) Each state or local agency shall drill agency employees working in office buildings on emergency procedures so that the employees may respond to an earthquake emergency without confusion or panic.

(2) The state or local agency shall conduct the drills annually in accordance with Office of Emergency Management rules.

(3) The drills must include familiarization with routes and methods of exiting the building and the earthquake emergency response procedure recommended by the Federal Emergency Management Agency known as “drop, cover and hold on.”

(4) Consistent with rules of the Office of Emergency Management, the state or local agency may drill earthquake emergency response procedures in addition to “drop, cover and hold on” when the state or local agency determines, based on evaluation of specific engineering and structural issues related to an office building, that “drop, cover and hold on” may not be the most effective earthquake emergency response procedure to prevent or limit injury or loss of life.

(5) The Office of Emergency Management may, by rule or on application, grant exemptions from the drill requirement for good cause.

(6) As used in this section, “state or local agency” means a state or local office, department, division, bureau, board or commission that is assigned, renting, leasing, owning or controlling office space for carrying out its duties. “State or local agency” includes the Legislative Assembly when in regular session. [Formerly 401.538; 2013 c.266 §1]

Stay well.

Thank you,

Jamie Poole

Outreach and Technology Coordinator

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Clackamas County Disaster Management | 2200 Kaen Road, Oregon City, OR 97045

503-278-9150 (cell) | Jpoole@clackamas.us |www.clackamas.us/dm

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