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Reliant’s executive director gives limited, though sufficient authority to the Crisis Manager for the management of all crises.  The Crisis Manager, with approval from leadership, will appoint a formal Crisis Management Team (CMT).  This team will be available at all times as a trained group of specialists equipped to handle a level 5 crisis. 

Typically, the organization Reliant should allow the CMT to be the sole team responding to the crisis, though the CMT frequently does call upon additional staff or resources to assist in their response.  No member of Reliant may take any actions related to the crisis or outside of normal operations that could be reasonably interpreted to be related to the crisis without express direction and authorization from the crisis manager, their delegate, the field staff leader, or the field leader’s specified delegate.

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Additionally, experience teaches us that having too many organizational resources can cause secondary crises due to operational disruptions or unauthorized responses.  Therefore, the CMT should be the sole group given authority to act and should be separated from the normal operations of the organization to give full focus on the crisis event. 

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