Elements and Performance Criteria
- Establish a search and rescue support plan related to the facility
- Identify possible search and rescue scenarios in liaison with relevant personnel
- Identify relevant local (or other) agencies
- Identify key contacts with relevant agencies
- Liaise with relevant agencies to develop/review site/agency interaction plan(s) for a search and rescue
- Assess plan(s) for operability and practicality
- Assess proposed plans with relevant agencies for compatibility with each other and own systems
- Negotiate and resolve conflicts
- Ensure site emergency plans are consistent with agreed agency interaction plans.
- Activate search and rescue support plan
- Recognise that a search and rescue is required
- Obtain information required by the procedures and determine relevant agency/agencies to contact
- Contact relevant agency/agencies and activate search and rescue
- Provide all relevant and available information to the agency
- Activate site incident response system relevant to the incident.
- Liaise with search and rescue agency/agencies
- Monitor local situation and advise agency of any relevant changes
- Monitor search and rescue progress and provide relevant information to site incident response team
- Advise relevant personnel in own organisation of progress
- Negotiate issues with agency/agencies and own organisation
- Determine the need for additional/different resources and negotiate their timely acquisition
- Identify problems/potential problems with the search and rescue and develop solutions in liaison with the agency/agencies and own organisation.
- Conclude search and rescue support
- Negotiate a conclusion to the search and rescue with the agency/agencies and own organisation
- Collect and preserve all relevant information
- Debrief with relevant people involved
- Complete reports as required
- Identify items for improvement and take action to have improvements implemented/built into support plans.