Salt Lake City Emergency Grade Rating Method

The emergency management plan for the Mayor's Office of the Salt Lake City in the United States divides the emergency level into three levels:

1. First level emergency

Definition: An accident that can be handled by a department's normal and available resources. The “normally available resources” referred to here refers to the manpower and material resources that the department can respond to in its daily work.
Responsibilities: Within the scope of normal duties, decisions are made to properly resolve incidents.
Notification: No action: If required, the competent authority can establish a local command post without the need for the entire city to take action. The expropriation affairs will be handled by the competent authority. The required logistical support and the addition of personnel or other resources will be additional duties of the competent authority.

2. Class 2 tight competition

Definition: An incident that requires the response of two or more government administrations, or an event that needs outside the city to respond and give aid. These events need to work together and provide people, equipment, or other resources. They interfere with the normal operation of some or all of the responding departments.
Responsibilities: Responsibility for making major decisions is given to the department that normally manages this situation, while the department that needs to participate in cooperation is the department that needs to undertake support. These cooperation should be able to properly solve the problem.
Notice: The mayor should get a report from the start-up department about the incident.
Action: The parent organization of the response department can establish a local command post and notify all local response agencies.

The responding department can also establish an administrative command post (usually located in its main organization or in its scheduled area) and should inform all response departments and local mayors.

The expropriation affairs will be handled by the response department. The required logistics support, additional personnel or other resources are additional responsibilities of the responsible department. The materials needed for an emergency should be submitted to the mayor for decision. He can quickly handle these needs through the material assistance department.

3. Level 3 emergency

Definition: It is necessary to make use of unexpected incidents in all parts of the city and all resources, or to require various departments of the city to unite with agencies outside the city to deal with various situations.
Responsibility: The responsibility for making the main decision was given to the emergency management department. Commanders can make decisions on the scene necessary to protect life and property and stabilize the situation. The decision to resolve the entire emergency should be handled by the emergency management department.

At this level of emergency, the mayor of an official emergency authority usually issues an “emergency announcement”.

Notice: The following persons will be notified (when they are absent, replaced by other members of the department): the mayor, the number one officer of each department, the chief of the police, the director of the fire department, the head of the municipal engineering department, and other persons designated by the mayor.
The earliest operational department has the responsibility of making the above notice. The department that has started operations can, in any case, receive assistance from the personnel dispatched by the notified police station as needed.
Action: The main leaders of the main departments should establish a command post in the local area and notify all departments with responsibilities.

The chief of police should play an important role in the urban emergency command center. All members of the emergency management department should report to the command center and carry a mobile phone with them whenever possible.

The expropriation affairs will be undertaken by the command center. The acquisition of further personnel, materials and other resources will be the work of the emergency management department. All support staff will report to the Fire Command. In the third-level emergency, the fire department will assume the necessary transportation functions.