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CA Emergency Mgmt. Agency Safety Assessment Program Evaluator Manual April 2011This practice of „commandeering‟ dates back to Roman times, and has been used in recentdisasters in California as well.Under the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC), persons from outside theState of California who are sent through EMAC to help with a disaster in California havewhatever immunities from liability that they would have in their home state. Conversely,persons sent by the State of California under EMAC to help communities in other states have thesame protections from liability that they enjoy within California under these aforementionedlaws and regulations.Of course, all of these liability protections do not cover malicious acts (such as red-tagging abuilding because the owner is argumentative) or gross negligence (such as green-tagging abuilding without any assessment).1.5 Workers‟ Compensation for California Disaster Service Workers (DSWs)State of California employees and California local government employees are Disaster ServiceWorkers by definition. State of California employees are covered with workers‟ compensationfrom the State of California. Local government employees are covered with workers‟compensation from their respective local governments.As stated in the previously mentioned California Attorney General‟s Opinion, private sectorvolunteers are covered for workers compensation by the State of California, and this is the onlysource of workers‟ compensation available to them. However, private sector volunteers mustbecome California Disaster Service Workers in order to be eligible for workers‟ compensationfrom the State of California. This in accord with Section 8580 of the California EmergencyServices Act, which states:“The Emergency Council shall establish by rule and regulations various classes ofdisaster service workers and the scope of the duties for each class. The EmergencyCouncil shall also adopt rules and regulations prescribing the manner in which disasterservice workers of each class are to be registered. All of the rules and regulations shallbe designated to facilitate the payment of workers‟ compensation.”Private sector residents of California become Disaster Service Worker volunteers by completingthe Loyalty Oath or Affirmation on the SAP Registration Form (hereafter referred to as the“Loyalty Oath”). By State of California law, this oath must be properly witnessed by one of thefollowing persons:The Secretary of the California Emergency Management Agency, or one of his/herdesignees (one of the Statewide SAP Coordinators employed by Cal EMA);A Notary of the Public, who cannot be paid for witnessing the Loyalty Oath signature;A county or city court clerk, a judge or retired judge, a court recorder, or a local sheriff orchief of police.State of California employees, as well as employees of local governments in California, are notrequired to sign the Loyalty Oath, as they are already Disaster Service Workers.16
CA Emergency Mgmt. Agency Safety Assessment Program Evaluator Manual April 2011Persons who are not residents of California do not need to sign the Loyalty Oath. If they aredispatched to California under EMAC, then they would be covered by whatever workers‟compensation arrangement exists for them in their home state.1.6 Program RegistrationSafety Assessment Program evaluators are deployed through one of two ways:Through their professional organization; or,Through their supervisor, if employed by a State of California agency.In either case, registered SAP evaluators must meet the minimum requirements previouslydiscussed. In addition, they also must: Complete the one-day standardized training presented by a certified SAP trainer; Have their photo taken for identification purposes; and Be a California Disaster Service Worker (see Section 1.5).There were a variety of identification cards issued prior to July 2002, when the SafetyAssessment Program was revamped. All such identification cards were deemed expired byDecember 2003. Persons who still have the pre-2002 cards must take a one-day SAP evaluatorclass by a certified trainer in order to be brought into the current SAP statewide cadre and beissued a current identification card.Between 2002 and July of 2009, the identification cards were issued under the Governor‟s Officeof Emergency Services (OES) design, and were a gray color. The current identification cardshave dark bands on a white background, and are issued with the seal of the CaliforniaEmergency Management Agency (Cal EMA). The gray OES cards are still considered current,but will be eventually replaced by the new Cal EMA identification cards. In the event of adeployment, persons with the old OES cards will have new Cal EMA identification cards madefor them, so there is consistency in the field. As was reinforced in the April 2010 BajaEarthquake event that affected Imperial County, identification is essential in order to protect thepublic from fraudulent individuals seeking to profit from the disaster.All SAP identification cards expire five years from the month of their class. A refresher courseis available online at the SAP website to renew one‟s SAP identification card, and thereby one‟sstanding in the statewide cadre. There is also a half-day SAP recertification class that isavailable though the certified instructors. Of course, one can also take the regular SAP evaluatorclass again to renew.The Cal EMA SAP identification cards are more durable than the gray OES cards, and aredouble-sided. The back side contains an emergency worker clearance statement that will assistthe SAP evaluator in crossing public safety lines. It also has a postage guarantee statement thatallows a lost SAP identification card to be sent back to Cal EMA by simply being put into themail.Also, SAP coordinators who have the credentials to do field evaluation (see Section 1.2) areissued a card identifying them as a coordinator. This will facilitate their work in the office orfield as a leadperson. (The SAP coordinator training is different from this evaluator course, and17
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