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Tactics

The deployment and directing of resources on an incident to accomplish the objectives.


TDGS - Tactical Decision Games

This provides a simple, adaptable and effective method of repeatedly challenging a responder with tactical solutions that include limitations of time and information.

Technical Specialist

Individual with special skills that can be used anywhere within the ICS organisation. No minimum qualifications are prescribed, as technical specialists normally perform the same duties during an incident that they perform in their everyday jobs, and they are typically certified in their fields or professions.

Technological Hazard

These hazards originate from technological or industrial accidents, infrastructure failures, or certain human activities.  These hazards cause the loss of life or injury, property damage, social and economic disruption, or environmental degradation, and often come with little to no warning.

Telephone Tree

A list of staff, their phone numbers, and their role in the ICS (if applicable).  The first person on the list (usually the IC) calls his or her pre-assigned staff members to relay what is and is not known and what steps should be taken.  These members continue passing along the IC’s message to their pre-assigned contacts until everyone has been contacted.


TEP - Training and Exercise Plan

It is a document that establishes overall exercise program priorities and outlines the schedule of training and exercise activities designed to address priorities and validate core capabilities.

TEPW - Training and Exercise Planning Workshop

The TEPW purpose is to engage elected and appointed officials in identifying exercise program priorities and planning a schedule of training and exercise events to meet those priorities.

Terrorism

Any activity that involves an act that is dangerous to human life or potentially destructive of critical infrastructure and is a violation of the criminal laws of the country or of any state or other subdivision of the such country; and appears to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, or to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion, or to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping.

TF - Task Force

Any combination of resources of different kinds and/or types assembled to support a specific mission or operational need.

THIRA - Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment

The Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment process helps communities strategically analyse threats and hazards that pose the greatest risk to national security. By identifying and prioritising those threats through the THIRA process, a community can then make informed decisions in regards to their preparedness.

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