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Resources

Personnel and major items of equipment, supplies, and facilities available or potentially available for assignment to incident operations and for which status is maintained. Resources are described by kind and type and may be used in operational support or supervisory capacities at an incident or at an EOC.

Response

Activities that address the short-term, direct effects of an incident. Response includes immediate actions to save lives, protect property, and meet basic human needs. Response also includes the execution of emergency operations plans and of mitigation activities designed to limit the loss of life, personal injury, property damage, and other unfavourable outcomes. As indicated by the situation, response activities include applying intelligence and other information to lessen the effects or consequences of an incident; increased security operations; continuing investigations into nature and source of the threat; ongoing public health and agricultural surveillance and testing processes; immunisations, isolation, or quarantine; and specific law enforcement operations aimed at pre-empting, interdicting, or disrupting illegal activity, and apprehending actual perpetrators and bringing them to justice. 

RSF - Recovery Support Function

The organising structures for key functional areas of assistance outlined in a National Disaster Recovery Framework (or similar) that group capabilities of various government and private sector partner organisations to promote effective recovery from disasters before and after disasters strike.

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S-MAC - Strategic Multiagency Coordination

A coordination entity that operates at a high level during complex or large-scale incidents. It focuses on providing strategic guidance, resource prioritisation, and policy direction to ensure an effective response across jurisdictions and agencies.


Section

The ICS organisational element having responsibility for a major functional area of incident management (e.g., Operations, Planning, Logistics, and Finance/Administration). The Section is organisationally situated between the Branch and the Incident Command.

Shelter-in-Place

A common procedure implemented in the event of a chemical or radioactive release.  People and response personnel take immediate shelter, sealing up windows and doors, and turning off air ducts. 



Simulation Cell

It is an effective and flexible tool for control of emergency management exercises. It allows exercise participants to interact, via simulation, with a wide variety of nonplaying organisations and officials.


Single Resource

An individual, a piece of equipment and its personnel complement, or a crew/team of individuals with an identified work supervisor that can be used on an incident.



SitMan - Situation Manual

The primary reference material provided to all the participants. It is a textual background for the facilitated exercise and discussion.


SitPic - Situational Picture

a comprehensive and visual representation of the current situation during an emergency or disaster. It integrates information from various sources and presents it in a way that enables decision-makers, responders, and agencies to quickly understand the state of the incident, the resources available, and the immediate needs.



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