Immediate Response Capabilities

P4 - explain possible priorities and responses when dealing with two particular incidents or emergencies in a health or social care setting.

o Set Priorities. What are your top priorities? What are your most serious security concerns? What is the most important type of protection, security, privacy and safety for you?

Explain possible priorities and responses when dealing with two particular incidents or emergencies in a health and social care setting.

Handheld radios will be used as the primary communication device. Each radio will be fully charged prior to the event, and set to channel 1.

Priority: It means degree of urgency for the resolution of the conflict. Here 3 levels of priority has been defined: P1, P2 and P3.

Whenever disaster or mass casualty happen their will injuries and life lost. In order to care for these individual we must separate them by category for the least serious to the most critical ones. To care for the individual certain areas are set up into three four different stage s. The first stage consist of the Hot Zone is the most contaminated area, typically requiring that responders wear some level of personal protective equipment. Another zone is the warm area where most of your decontamination work takes place.

Local protective measure planning equips first responders with the knowledge needed to organize efficient response results in the event of an emergency. Structured open dialogue between local emergency jurisdictions enables responders to delegate the appropriate individuals and equipment resources to the impacted local areas requiring the most aid following a terror event. By establishing a streamlined communication framework, local emergency responders can collaborate their efforts and resources to promote collective well-being. When a local emergency plan specifies what responders and resources belong where and at what time, response overlap and shortages can be avoided. Unionized response action established prior to a terrorist incident, serves to mitigate the risks, hazards and threat of injury or harm the people and property of the US face when a terrorism event occurs. Furthermore, a structured local emergency operations plan for a hazardous materials incident involving a terrorist is imperative to public health and safety, as the blueprint outlines protective measures the public can follow to minimize their exposure to dangerous substances. The people of a community affected by a terror event can be warned and notified of the event’s associated dangerous materials, which threaten their well-being, through a variety of methods such as warning sirens or horns, emergency alert systems, automated

Continuity of Operations (COOP) is an effort within individual executive departments and agencies to ensure that Primary Mission Essential Functions continue to be performed during a wide range of emergencies, including localized acts of nature, accidents and technological or attack-related emergencies. To have an effective COOP, an organization must plan and mitigate all aspects of those functions for any type of situation which might cause a disruption of operations. The COOP must also align with the organizations goals in order to continue efficiency. With proper planning and mitigation, an organization can continue operations of their Mission Essential Functions (MEF). The first course of

Their priorities were to secure Medical Facilities, museum’s, the train station, pharmacies, big box stores, sporting goods stores and facilities later to be identified by the commander There were certain units that were being sent out to gather the location of fallen aircraft, number of bodies, type of aircraft, and company and personal identification of the bodies if possible. There would be follow on units to bury the bodies, they would be moved to designated burial sites with grave markers identifying them if possible.

This information will be used to establish priorities and develop an incident action plan. Resources and capabilities are employed based on the size, scope, nature and complexity of the incident. Should the disaster exceed the local governments, they would request assistance through mutual aid and assistance agreements, the State, or the Federal Government. Mutual aid agreements establish the roles and responsibilities of both parties, the procedures for requesting assistance and communication protocols.

A “crucial enabler” (Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2011, pp. III-24) or force generator, critical capabilities (CC) are the inherent functions, activities or events that allow a center of gravity to achieve its specified or implied objectives. Using the Ends-Ways-Means-Risk framework, critical capabilities represent the “Ways” (i.e. methods, tactics or strategies) in which a COG will accomplish its mission. Stated more simply, a CC is something a “center of gravity [can] do to you that puts great fear (or concern) into your heart in the context of your mission and level of war “ (Strange & Iron, 2013, p. 7).

• priority (or critical) needs (priority of need for resource to return to home agency or another incident).

Today’s technology has enabled communication to various parts of the world a 24-hour service, which means that, in any emergency response circumstance, there will always be a continuous claim for information (Haddow & Haddow, 2013).

3. Operational Coordination is third on the list of priorities. The IC has to coordinate the efforts of Police, Fire & Rescue, as well as business owners and nongovernmental organizations (NGO). Time is of the essence. The sooner the IC has operational control, the sooner various pieces can be delegated, and the IC can focus on the big picture.

Specific measures taken before disasters strike, to ensure effective response constitute preparation. This phase may include specific contingency planning, emergency exercises, training, installation and use of warning systems.