OMS 040 - Incident Communications Plans

Question 1

OMS 040 - Incident Communications Plans
How many radios can personnel monitor at a time?

Answer 1

2

Question 2

OMS 040 - Incident Communications Plans
What to do when Communications blackspots are experienced?

Answer 2

Consider requesting for operational support from FRV Communications Technicians where incident communications black spots are experience.

Consider utilising a local channel where communication problems occur with allocated fireground channels.

Question 3

OMS 040 - Incident Communications Plans
When to establish a communications plan?

Answer 3

Establish a communications plan for all incidents.

Question 4

OMS 040 - Incident Communications Plans
Fireground vs Command Comms

Answer 4

Fireground - To be used for firefighting and incident mitigation operations. (you can have multiple fireground channels… sectorisation, tech ops, etc)

Command - To be used for command level incident management. You should only use a single command channel, unless the Control Unit is on scene and where operators of this unit can monitor the dispatch channel for the IC.