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CHAPTER 3
Defining Your Jurisdictional
Emergency Response Objectives
To effectively quantify your jurisdiction's emergency response requirements, you should first
identify the performance objectives for response appropriate for your jurisdiction. Performance
objectives in this context represent a set of minimally acceptable standards for response time,
capabilities, equipment, training, skill level, etc. that should be achieved in order to support the
execution of a hazardous material emergency response.
To assist with establishing response performance objectives suitable for your jurisdiction, this
Guide utilizes an approach that aligns the size and type of your jurisdiction with a standardized
set of objectives (articulated in terms of specific personnel, training, and equipment) appropriate
for response to seven different categories of hazardous material releases. This approach is based
on the DHS pre-decision draft document (2009).
The following sections will assist you with determining your Jurisdictional Class (a function
of your jurisdiction's size and type) and then present a set of associated performance objectives
for response for your review and acceptance.
Determining Your Jurisdictional Class
Jurisdictional Class refers to the categorization of jurisdictions based on population character-
istics. A jurisdiction's population demographics are correlated with its performance objectives for
response (i.e., a jurisdiction with a population of less than 10,000 people would not be expected
to have the same response objectives as a city with more than 1 million people).
Step 3
Utilizing Table 3, identify your Jurisdictional Class designation. When evaluating population
and population density, use the extent of your planning area, whether this encompasses one
or multiple jurisdictions (i.e., municipalities, areas, etc.). Adjust your population calculations
to include tourist and commuter populations as you deem appropriate.
Establishing Your Performance Objectives
Tables 4 through 8 present performance objectives for response based on a specific Jurisdictional
Class designation. The tables are organized such that the performance objectives are found in cells
at the intersection of Target Outcome categories (rows) and Incident Release Type (columns).
Target Outcomes have been categorized into five response preparedness activities:
1. Conducting an on-scene hazard and risk Assessment;
2. Managing the hazmat rescue operations;
3. Rescuing the affected persons;
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Table 3. Jurisdictional Classes for defining performance objectives.
Jurisdictional Class
Criteria
Class Five Class Four Class Three Class Two Class One
Population Population of Population of Population of Population of
of less 10,000 to 100,000 100,000 to 500,000 500,000 to greater than
than 1.5 million 1.5 million
10,000
Population - OR - - OR - - OR - - OR -
and
Population Population of Population of Population of Population of
Density less than 10,000 10,000 to 100,000 100,000 to 500,000 greater than
Thresholds and and and 500,000
Population Density Population Density Population Density and
greater than 1,000 greater than 2,500 greater than 5,000 Population Density
persons/sq.mi. persons/sq.mi. persons/sq.mi. greater than 10,000
persons/sq.mi.
4. Controlling the hazard; and
5. Decontaminating affected persons.
Performance objectives for each Target Outcome (preparedness activity) may vary depending on
the material involved. For example, performance objectives for decontamination are different for a
material that poses a fire hazard versus one that is radioactive. This variance in objectives is handled
by utilizing the Incident Release Type categorization scheme. In general, each of the seven Incident
Table 4. Jurisdictional Class 5--performance objectives.
Target Performance Objectives for Jurisdictional Class 5
Outcome for
Jurisdictional Explosions or Toxic Gas Toxic Liquid Radioactive Biologically Active
Fires Corrosives
BLEVEs Releases Releases Material Releases Material Releases
Class 5
Respond in less than 5 minutes following initial response
Begin to conduct on-scene hazard & risk assessment
Assess
Analyze incident (based on quantity & quality)
Select appropriate PPE (personal protective equipment)
Respond in less than 60 minutes
with branch director/group supervisor
Manage with Tier 1 team
Plan the response & implement
Assign personnel duties
Respond in less than 60 minutes
with trained and equipped personnel that can rescue and physically remove within 60 minutes
1 non- 5 non-ambulatory affected persons
Rescue ambulatory Use PPE & safety equipment
affected person
Use PPE & safety
equipment
Respond in less than 90 minutes upon request (if needed)
with one Tier 1 team
Control with access to at least one Tier 3 or 4 team
with appropriate safety equipment, including proper respiratory protection equipment
Identify control options and implement appropriate ones
Decon Be capable of decontaminating the emergency response entry team
(Spill or Leak)
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Table 5. Jurisdictional Class 4--performance objectives.
Target Performance Objectives for Jurisdictional Class 4
Outcome for
Jurisdictional Explosions or Toxic Gas Toxic Liquid Radioactive Biologically Active
Fires Corrosives
BLEVEs Releases Releases Material Releases Material Releases
Class 4
Respond in less than 5 minutes following initial response
Begin to conduct on-scene hazard & risk assessment
Continue to update for multiple operational periods
Assess
Analyze incident (based on quantity & quality)
Select appropriate PPE
Select monitoring & sampling equipment
Respond in less than 45 minutes
with branch director/group supervisor
Manage with Tier 2 team
Plan the response & implement
Assign personnel duties
Respond in less than 10 minutes
with trained & equipped personnel that can rescue and physically remove within 30 minutes
5 non- 10 non-ambulatory affected persons
Rescue ambulatory Use PPE & safety equipment
affected persons
Use PPE & safety
equipment
Respond in less than 60 minutes upon request (if needed)
with one Tier 2 team
Control with access to at least one Tier 3 or 4 team
respond with the proper personal protective equipment
Identify control options and implement appropriate ones
Decon
Be able to decontaminate hazardous material entry team and 100 patients per hour per Tier 2 Requirements per Table 2
(Spill or Leak)
Release Type categories represents a potential hazard posed from a hazardous material release.
Within Tables 4 through 8, the Incident Release Type categories covered by the objectives are found
in the table header. Chapter 4 will provide more information on Incident Release Types.
The performance objectives for your Jurisdictional Class will ultimately be used to assess your
jurisdiction's ability to execute each Target Outcome. While the performance objectives outline the
goals for a response preparedness activity, the jurisdiction determines how to achieve each of these
goals, and the incident commander determines how to respond to specific incidents.
Step 4
Use the Jurisdictional Class specified in Step 3 to determine the appropriate table below (there
is one for each Jurisdictional Class) and review the potential performance objectives for your
jurisdiction. During your review, keep in mind that your jurisdiction can deliver any given
capability through a mutual-aid agreement and/or regional collaboration. You should also
review the performance objectives for other Jurisdictional Classes that might be more appro-
priate to your situation (see Step 5).
Step 5
After reviewing the performance objectives, select the Jurisdictional Class that best fits the
performance objectives you selected. The Jurisdictional Class might be higher or lower than
the class you selected in Step 3, which was based solely on population. Your jurisdiction might
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Table 6. Jurisdictional Class 3--performance objectives.
Target Performance Objectives for Jurisdictional Class 3
Outcome for
Jurisdictional Explosions or Toxic Gas Toxic Liquid Radioactive Biologically Active
Fires Corrosives
BLEVEs Releases Releases Material Releases Material Releases
Class 3
Respond in less than 5 minutes following initial response
Begin to conduct on-scene hazard & risk assessment
Continue to update for multiple operational periods
Assess
Analyze incident (based on quantity & quality)
Select appropriate PPE
Select monitoring, sampling & plume modeling equipment
Respond in less than 30 minutes
with branch director/group supervisor
Manage with Tier 3 team
Plan the response & implement
Assign personnel duties
Respond in less than 10 minutes
with trained & equipped personnel that can rescue and physically remove within 30 minutes
10 non- 50 non-ambulatory affected persons
Rescue ambulatory Use PPE & safety equipment
affected persons
Use PPE & safety
equipment
Respond in less than 45 minutes upon request (if needed)
with one Tier 3 team
Control with access to at least two Tier 3 or 4 teams
with the proper personal protective equipment
Identify control options and implement appropriate ones
Decon
Be able to decontaminate hazardous material entry team and 250 contaminated persons per hour a Tier 3 requirement per Table 2
(Spill or Leak)
have critical infrastructure, facilities with special populations, monuments or icons of national
significance, or other community-specific factors that might warrant a higher response capa-
bility (Jurisdictional Class). Your selected Jurisdictional Class will impact the desired response
capabilities in a later step.
The Jurisdictional Class selected in Step 5 can be related back to a tier-level capability requirement
listed in Table 2. This relationship is shown in Table 9. For three of the five target outcomes--
Manage, Control, and Decon--the requirements of the selected Jurisdictional Class can be
related directly to a tier level's requirements. The exceptions are the Assess and Rescue outcomes,
for which the Jurisdictional Class requirements have no corresponding tier-level requirement.
Since the Jurisdictional Class target outcomes for Manage, Control, and Decon in Table 4 match
the tier-level goals, the target outcomes for Assess and Rescue in Table 4 are considered target goals.
Thus, to meet the Assess target outcome for a specific tier level, the emergency response team is
to respond in 5 minutes, conduct on-scene hazard and risk assessments, analyze the incident,
and select the appropriate PPE. The remaining Jurisdiction Classes add requirements to the
baseline. Similarly, the Rescue outcome goals listed in Table 4 are considered tier-level target
goals. In Table 9, because it is necessary to impose additional tier-level performance requirements
for the Assess and Rescue outcomes, the tier-level assignments have been given an asterisk to
indicate the augmented requirements needed to meet the Jurisdictional Class target outcomes.
In Table 9 there are two criteria shown for Rescue: one for the fire hazard and the one for all other
hazard classes.
In most cases, it would be expected that you would select the Jurisdictional Class based on
the population in the area being assessed, as shown in Table 3. However, as noted earlier, you can
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Table 7. Jurisdictional Class 2--performance objectives.
Target Performance Objectives for Jurisdictional Class 2
Outcome for
Jurisdictional Explosions or Toxic Gas Toxic Liquid Radioactive Biologically Active
Fires Corrosives
BLEVEs Releases Releases Material Releases Material Releases
Class 2
Respond in less than 5 minutes following initial response
Begin to conduct on-scene hazard & risk assessment
Continue to update for multiple operational periods
Assess
Analyze incident (based on quantity & quality)
Select appropriate PPE
Select monitoring, sampling & plume modeling equipment
Respond in less than 30 minutes
with branch director/group supervisor
Manage with Tier 4 team
Plan the response & implement
Assign personnel duties
Respond in less than 10 minutes
with trained & equipped personnel that can rescue and physically remove within 30 minutes
20 non- 100 non-ambulatory affected persons
Rescue ambulatory Use PPE & safety equipment
affected persons
Use PPE & safety
equipment
Respond in less than 30 minutes upon request (if needed)
with one Tier 4 team
Control with access to at least four Tier 3 or 4 teams
with the proper personal protective equipment
Identify control options and implement appropriate ones
Decon
Be capable of decontaminating hazardous material entry team and 500 additional people per hour a Tier 4 requirement per Table 2
(Spill or Leak)
choose the performance measures associated with a higher or lower Jurisdiction Class (Step 5).
Once selected, if the tier-level capability for the emergency response team in the area being
assessed using Table 2 is different from those shown in Table 9, then there is a shortfall in the
capabilities of the area's emergency response team. This gap is identified here and discussed
further in Chapter 8; this gap, if any, will be combined with the shortfalls resulting from the
severity of the potential consequences initially identified in Chapter 5 and identified as a gap in
Chapter 7.
Table 9 summarizes all the goals by tier level. By expanding the definition of the tier levels to
include these goals, the analyses that follow will be greatly simplified. Consequently, if there is a
requirement to perform at the Tier 2 level, the requirements will include both the Tier 2 goals as
defined in Table 2 plus the Tier 2* goals defined in Table 9.
Step 6
Using the goals in Table 9, identify any shortfalls in the current Tier Response Level for the area's
emergency response team based on the selected Jurisdiction Class. (This gap will be carried
into Chapter 8.)
As described in the introduction, if you find a gap after this step, you might choose to stop the
assessment at this point and work on addressing this gap. If you carry the gap into the next steps,
it will likely widen with each subsequent step.
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Table 8. Jurisdictional Class 1--performance objectives.
Target Performance Objectives for Jurisdictional Class 1
Outcome for
Jurisdictional Explosions or Toxic Gas Toxic Liquid Radioactive Biologically Active
Fires Corrosives
BLEVEs Releases Releases Material Releases Material Releases
Class 1
Respond in less than 5 minutes following initial response
Begin to conduct on-scene hazard & risk assessment
Continue to update for multiple operational periods
Assess
Analyze incident (based on quantity & quality)
Select appropriate PPE
Select monitoring, sampling & plume modeling equipment
Respond in less than 30 minutes
with branch director/group supervisor
Manage with Tier 4 team
Plan the response & implement
Assign personnel duties
Respond in less than 10 minutes
with trained & equipped personnel that can rescue and physically remove within 30 minutes
50 non- 200 non-ambulatory affected persons
Rescue ambulatory Use PPE & safety equipment
affected persons
Use PPE & safety
equipment
Respond in less than 30 minutes upon request (if needed)
with one Tier 4 team
Control with access to at least four Tier 3 or 4 teams
with proper personal protective equipment
Identify control options and implement appropriate ones
Decon Be able to decontaminate hazardous material entry teams and more than 500 people per hour a Tier 4 requirement per Table 2
(Spill or Leak)
Table 9. Response Capability Tiers based on Jurisdiction Class.
Target Response Capability Tier by Jurisdiction Class
Outcome Class Five Class Four Class Three Class Two Class One
Tier 2*
Tier 3* Tier 4* Tier 4*
Baseline plus
monitoring and Tier 2* goals Tier 3* goals Tier 3* goals
Assess Baseline
sampling plus plume plus plume plus plume
equipment, sustain modeling modeling modeling
over multiple equipment equipment equipment
operating periods
Manage Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3 Tier 4 Tier 4
Tier 1* Tier 3* Tier 4* Tier 4*
Tier 2*
Rescue
Fire: Fire: Fire: Fire:
(hazard Fire: 5 Persons/hr
1 Person/hr 10 Persons/hr 20 Persons/hr 20 Persons/hr
dependent) Other Hazards:
Other Hazards: Other Hazards: Other Hazards: Other Hazards:
10 persons/hr
5 persons/hr 50 persons/hr 100 persons/hr 100 persons/hr
Control Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3 Tier 4 Tier 4
Decon Baseline Tier 2 Tier 3 Tier 4 Tier 4
*Augmented requirements needed to meet target outcome.
