Elements and Performance Criteria
- Collect and assess emergency information
- Implement emergency response strategies
- Develop, or promptly implement, onsite strategies in order to combat the emergency
- Monitor continuously information flows relating to the emergency in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the implemented strategy
- Coordinate team activities and resource allocation and direct them to meet the identified emergency
- Delegate authority to appropriate personnel as the situation warrants.
- Liaise with emergency control
- Coordinate emergency responses
- Convey feedback relating to progress/status of the emergency to emergency response teams and other personnel
- Regularly reassess and modify responses and tactics in accordance with the status of the emergency.
- Conduct periodic 'time outs' to enable situation updates and proactive directing of resources and actions.
- Assess emergency response/actions
- Undertake post-emergency evaluation
- Undertake a post-response evaluation of the emergency in order to determine the effectiveness of the response strategies and the emergency response plan
- Recommend and communicate modification and adjustments to the emergency response plans to appropriate personnel
- Review and modify planning of emergency response exercises and training in light of the outcomes of the emergency response evaluation.