Chapter 10 Emergency Management Flashcards
What is the definition of emergency?
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Is the result of any happening natural or otherwise
Causes or may cause loss of life, illness, distress, endanger the safety of the public
Cannot be dealt with by emergency services
What does section 78 allow us to do?
Director, Controller, CDEM considers imminent threat
Applies to district court judge, authorise any constable to enter and search any premises
For information that is urgently required to prevent or limit the extent of the emergency
What are the powers conferred by S 80?
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Enter and search the premises stated
Use assistants
Use force that is reasonable
Search and seize information
What should a constable do in S 81?
Seize information or document
Give it to the director/controller, person authorised by CDEM
If no longer required return it to the person from whom it was seized
The purpose of CIMS is to achieve what?
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Effective, coordinated incident management across responding agencies
Establishing common structures, functions, terminology used in incident management
A framework that is flexible, scalable
Enabling agencies to develop their own processes, procedures for training for the execution of CIMs
What authority does the CDEM Act confer powers for police? What are they?
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Totally, partially restrict public access on any road or public place
Evacuate any premises or place
Enter, break in to save a life, prevent injury, remove injured persons
Remove aircraft
Requisition resources where such action is urgently required for the preservation of life
Direct any person to stop any activity that may cause emergency
When is the EOC operations centre activated?
When several incident level responses at different sites
When off site coordination support is required
To coordinate multi agency or multi incident responses
What are the responsibilities of governance?
Making strategic decisions
Providing high level support, advice, direction to the response
Activating a significant response & allocating the delegated resources
Declaring, extending, or ending a ‘state of emergency’
Providing a spokesperson
Liaising with other levels of governance
Deciding on special funding arrangements
What is the control function?
Responsible for controlling the response element. The IMT is headed by the controller.
Controller is supported by:
- response manager
- technical experts
- personal assistants
- risk safety
What are the components of emergency management referred to as the 4 R’s?
Risk reduction
Readiness
Response
Recovery
What are some of the common response objectives?
5 P’s M & C
Preserve life Prevent escalation of emergency Provide essential services Preserve governance Protect assets Maintain law and order Care for the sick, injured & dependants
What are the principles of CIMs?
C M R C I R D
Common structures, roles, responsibilities, terminology Modular and scale able Responsive to community needs Inter grated response coordination Consolidated action planning Integrated information management Resource coordination Designated response facilities Manageable span of control
What is the responsibility of the lead agency?
The agency that has the mandate to lead the response to an incident through legislation, protocols, by agreement
If a lead agency cannot be identified, response agencies may use a unified control.
What is the support agency role?
It provides support to the lead agency. The lead agency tasks and coordinates support agencies resources and actions.
Support agencies often have statutory responsibilities and specific objectives of their own.
What is unified control?
When control of the incident is shared between two or more agencies by agreement through a combined decision making model.
Agencies applying a unified model will establish a joint coordination centre.
