Decision control process

Question 1

The decision control process consists of four stages.

These are:

Answer 1

• Situation: Incident information, Resource information, Risk Information.
• Action: Communicating, Controlling
• Plan: Objectives, Tactical priorities, Operational tactics
• Decision controls: Why? Expectations? Benefit vs Risk?

Question 2

Situation (3 parts)

Answer 2

Incident information

• What is the current situation?
• What has led to the current situation?
• How might the situation develop?

Resource information

• What resources are available?
• What resources are needed to deal with situation?
• What resources am i likely to need, if the incident develops as i expect? people,equipment,specialist skills,other agencies.

Risk information

• What are the hazards?
• Who is at risk?
• What is at risk?
• How can hazards be controlled?
• What are the potential benifits of a course of action?

Question 3

Plan (3 area’s)

Answer 3

Objectives

• What are the incident objectives and goals?

Tactical priorities

• What are the tactical priorities?

Operational tactics

• What are the ops tactics? (consider SOP’s + where necessary ops discression)
• How are we going to achieve them?
• Who by? sector commander,other FRS crews, other agencies?
• With what?
• Where?
• What do i expect to happen and by when?

Question 4

Decision controls

are rapid mental checks that asks:

(3 areas)

Answer 4

Why?

• What goal does this link to?
• What is my rationale?

Expectations?

• Anicipate the likely outcome of the action
• How will the incident change as a result of this action

Benifit vs Risk?

• Consider whether the benifit of our action justifies the risks being accepted.

Question 5

Action

This phase involves implementing the decisions that have been made. Where feasible, decision controls should be applied before this phase, or as soon as possible afterwards. This applies whether decision makers get to action from planning or directly from situation assessment: (2 areas)

Answer 5

Communicate

Communicate the outcomes of the decision assertively and effectively. For example, this may be to issue instructions and share risk-critical information. It may also be to provide updates on the situation, on progress or detail about what is happening at an incident.

Control

Control how the activities are implemented to achieve the desired outcomes. Consider delegating responsibility where this will help increase or maintain control.

Question 6

J.E.S.I.P

The Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Principles (JESIP) Joint Decision Model is a method responders have agreed to use at multi-agency incidents.

The diagram below shows how the decision control process supports the JESIP Joint Decision Model; in particular the element of ‘assessing risk and developing a working strategy’. It helps to feed information into the Joint Decision Model, and can be used as a process to plan and implement activities to achieve the fire and rescue objectives that have been agreed collectively using the Joint Decision Model.

Answer 6

Question 7

Joint decision making model

Answer 7

G.A.P.I.T

Gather information + intelligence

Assess risk + develop a working strategy

Considre Powers,Policies + Procedures

Identify options + contingencies

Take action + Review what happened