Department of Emergency Management

 

The mission of the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) is to protect the university community by coordinating and integrating activities necessary to build, sustain and improve the capability to mitigate against, prepare for, respond to and recover from threatened or actual natural disasters, acts of terrorism or other man-made disasters.

 

• Vision
• Mission Statement
• Purpose
• Core Values
• Objectives
• Emergency Notifications

 

Vision

The Albany State University Office of Emergency Management (ASUOEM) will strive to become a disaster-resistant university community.

Mission Statement

Protect the university’s mission by mitigating against, preparing for, responding to, and recovering from all major emergencies/disasters.

Purpose

The Office of Emergency Management (OEM)creates a safe environment by planning, training, offering grant assistance, coordinating collegiate and departmental response operations, maintaining emergency communications systems and resources, and executing emergency response and recovery activities for emergencies or disasters that threaten life safety.

The Office of Emergency Management (OEM) supports Albany State’s teaching, research and public service mission by providing the university community and the institution’s constituents with programs and services in emergency planning, training, mitigation, response and recovery. OEM provides specialized expertise in emergency program development by creating, revising and maintaining university-wide policy and plans related to emergency operations, essential communications, fire safety and strategic security initiatives.

Core Values

• Ethical behavior
• Timely response to emergency needs and requirements
• Expertise in emergency/disaster management and contingency management
• Learning and growth for all our public safety partners
• Effective communications
• Quality service to our internal and external customers
• A safe, healthy and protected campus

Objectives

• Provide emergency management oversight, coordination, and situational awareness to a broad and diverse group of university partners.
• Employ an integrated all-hazards risk-based approach for mitigation, response, continuity of operations, recovery, and preparedness planning.
• Create a “culture of preparedness” among students and employees by improving awareness and comprehension of what to do before, during, and after major emergency and disaster incidents.
• Develop and implement strategies to achieve multidimensional and redundant emergency communication capabilities.
• Build local, state, national, and international partnerships with other entities that share a vested interest in the enrichment of higher education emergency management.

OEM Location Map

OEM Staff

Gregory L. Elder; Director of Emergency Management

Business Continuity Manager

Emergency Operations Manager

Emergency Notifications

Mass Notification via Connect 5 Alert & LiveSafe App

Mass notification via Connect 5 Alert sends email, text and phone messages to a large audience in a rapid manner. This system is most effective during an emergency when all faculty, staff and students are loaded into the system.

While this system is effective for ‘initial alerts,’ it is not designed to distribute multiple messages and allow for detailed situational awareness.

The Office of Emergency Management (OEM) uses several communication media to relay information to faculty, staff, students and the public. Notifications may go out through mass notification via Connect 5 Alert, the outdoor public announcement (PA) system, university website postings, campus email and/or the university police vehicles’ PA system, and LiveSafe App.