The purpose of the Local Public Health Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) is to establish policy and guidance to ensure that essential functions for county health departments are continued in the event that manmade, natural, or technological emergencies disrupt or threaten to disrupt normal operations. The COOP plan enables the health department to operate with a significantly reduced workforce and diminished availability of resources, and to operate from an alternate work site should the primary facility become uninhabitable.
View the Continuity of Operations SOG Template (DOC).