SLP Job and Facility Descriptions

Municipal Safety Official

City Offices

Williamstown, Ohio

Town population 17,000, bedroom community to one of Ohio’s largest cities. Williamstown is located 15 miles from the metropolitan center. The city has full time fire (20 – full time and 10 part time) and police (chief, 5 shift supervisors and 23 patrolmen – fulltime and 11 part time) with mutual aid agreements with several surrounding communities. As safety officer you answer to the city administrator who answers to a 6-member city council. Your office is on the second floor of a newly-built city administration building (corner of West Spring and North Jameson) which was built in 2000, right next to a large federal government center housing offices of the Court of Appeals, the FBI and the ATF (just to the east on West Spring). You are responsible for safety issues for all municipal staff (23 persons not including safety forces) and indirectly responsible for the safety forces (fire and police chief answer to you). Education levels range from high school diplomas to two employees with masters degrees in accounting or public administration.

Your complex has entrances on two sides. There are emergency exits (2 from the rear stairways on the rear of the building). Your city houses a large compressed gas storage company who keeps several thousand cylinders of compressed common and toxic gases on hand at any one time. Other nearby industries include a refinery and a nearby air reserve base. There is a large, open air sports area about 5 miles from the center of town (north toward the larger neighboring central city). Your building is largely forced-air gas heated and AC. You have no special security on the HVAC unit. A large nuclear power generation plant is located within 15 miles of your facility. You are not far from a main highway route that is a main artery for hazardous materials haulers. At least on a few occasions over the past few years, you have had small personal items and minor pieces of equipment stolen from individual offices in your building. In the last 50 years, at least 5 nearby communities have experienced devastating tornados.

Williamstown

Practice Manager

Metropolitan Dental Center

Columbus, Ohio

Your offices are located on the first floor of a 5 story building on the edge of the downtown area (corner of East Broad and South Front Street). Your building shares parking and office space (on the upper floors) with offices of the Immigration and Naturalization Services, the Federal Bureau of Investigations and a number of state offices. There have been at least two bomb scares in the three years you have worked in the building. You are personally responsible for hiring and firing all professional and clerical support staff. You are also charged with the safety of the office staff. This includes 3 full time administrative assistants, 1 part time administrative assistant, 8 full time dental hygienists, two x-ray technicians, an accountant and two billing assistants. The office sees up to 70 patients per day (you are part of a community health chain of medical centers so you take patients, including the uninsured and sliding-scale). At any one time, you might have up to four dentists practicing in the clinic at once. Your office space covers about 4000 square feet. You have a front entrance off the main foyer of the office building and two rear emergency exits.

Your offices are only blocks away from the Capitol and hundreds of other prominent state office buildings. The large Scioto Medical Center is located about three blocks south on the corner of South Front and Route 3. Your building is largely forced-air gas heated and AC. You have no special security on the HVAC unit. A large nuclear power generation plant is located within 15 miles of your facility. You are not far from a main highway route that is a main artery for hazardous materials haulers. At least on a few occasions over the past few years, you have had small personal items and minor pieces of equipment stolen from individual offices in your building. Your building is also situated within the 100-year flood plane of a nearby river.

Director of Outpatient Services

Southwest Medical Center

Cincinnati, Ohio

Southwest Medical Center is a 600-bed acute, emergency care center and inpatient hospital. Your facility houses advanced coronary, respiratory, neonatal, cancer care and mental health units. The facility, located on the corner of 5^th and Vine, also houses a 60 bed extended care wing. You are the Director of Outpatient Services for the center and are in charge of 18 supervisors, including 11 in the hospital and 7 at four outpatient locations throughout Hamilton County. In total, you indirectly oversee a staff of nearly 140 people in five locations. The education level of your direct subordinates ranges from Bachelors degrees (7) to Masters level (9) and two Doctorals in Nursing. The facility handles a large number of acute care cases from the downtown office buildings. All of your training is done at the central hospital and supervisors from different sites must come to downtown for training. You work through your Director of Industrial Hygiene and Safety to plan safety training for your office. But his specialty is OSHA compliance, air quality and infection control. He is poorly briefed on weapons of mass destruction (not in his job description, he says). You are left to undertake efforts to address the issue with your supervisors. (For your facility security portion, only address your Western Suburbs Outpatient Center, which has 20 employees and two supervisors.) That facility houses nuclear medicine capabilities and traditional outpatient services. It is located near a large military reserve base and two large federal agencies. The facility is 10,000 square feet and is one story with two front entrances and two rear fire (employees only) doors. Your building is largely forced-air gas heated and AC. You have no special security on the HVAC unit. A large nuclear power generation plant is located within 15 miles of your facility. You are not far from a main highway route that is a main artery for hazardous materials haulers. At least on a few occasions over the past few years, you have had small personal items and minor pieces of equipment stolen from individual offices in your building. Your building is also situated near the 100-year floor plane of a major river. Another problem has recently presented; about a dozen missing keys, to critical areas, have been attributed to keys held by former employees who have left or been dismissed over the past few years.

Director

Wampum County Board of Health

Millstown, Ohio

Located on the corner of Cliffwood and Baker in Millstown, the WCBH houses the offices for public health nursing, environmental health, solid waste, community health education and other county offices. There is a large proportion of military in this county of 120,000 citizens as a combined service reserve base is located two miles from the Board of Health offices. As director, you are responsible for the safety of your staff of 6 department heads and 32 full time employees. Your building is a 60 year old single story brick structure with three main entrances for different departments, off of Baker Street. There is about 14,000 square feet under roof. There are two employee/emergency doors in the rear that open to the parking lot. Your offices are located near a number of small industries including the local water treatment plant (100 yds away), a hazardous waste incinerator (on Dryden Road on the west side of town) and a fireworks factory on Ohio Street which employs 150 workers. You are served by a small police force in Millstown (6 full time officers and 4 part time) and a volunteer fire department with two trucks. Your town has a pocket of Orthodox Jewish citizens who have received special funding to open a Jewish Health Center in your building. On at least one occasion in the last year, there has been a case of vandalism on that office along with an attempted arson. Although you have a small outreach medical center for minor emergencies, the nearest medical center is 15 miles away. Your building is largely forced-air gas heated and AC. You have no special security on the HVAC unit. A large nuclear power generation plant is located within 15 miles of your facility. You are not far from a main highway route that is a main artery for hazardous materials haulers. At least on a few occasions over the past few years, you have had small personal items and minor pieces of equipment stolen from individual offices in your building. In the last 50 years, at least 5 nearby communities have experienced devastating tornados. Another problem has recently presented; about a dozen missing keys, to critical areas, have been attributed to keys held by former employees who have left or been dismissed over the past few years.

Millstown

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