An evaluation of local incident command system personnel in a pandemic influenza

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Branum, BA, BS, MS (Student) ◽  
J. Eric Dietz, PhD, PE ◽  
David R. Black, PhD, MPH
Keyword(s):  
Pandemic Influenza ◽  
Local Level ◽  
The State ◽  
Incident Command System ◽  
Incident Command ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Qualified Personnel ◽  
Unified Command ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Selection Of

In 2008, 68 counties in the State of Indiana participated in functional exercises funded by the Indiana State Department of Health to evaluate local pandemic preparation and response. As a part of the exercise tasks, counties were asked to develop an Incident Command (IC) structure for the county as well as qualified personnel who would fill each position. By examining the individual structures, it was discovered that at the local level, no clear type of personnel was being used. This study will display the results of the findings by uniquely categorizing the local level IC personnel structure used in these exercises into three study-defined types: normal command, specialized command, and unified command. By looking at the various effectiveness aspects of each type of personnel structure, this study will provide consideration, with possible strengths and weaknesses, for effective IC use based upon selection of IC personnel. The results will allow localities to better modify their command to adjust to a pandemic emergency.

DEVELOPING THE STATE ON-SCENE COORDINATORS' COURSE FOR ALASKA

1995 ◽  
Vol 1995 (1) ◽  
pp. 1019-1021
Author(s):  
Harry Young ◽  
Larry Dietrick ◽  
Arthur Pilot ◽  
Geoff Harben ◽  
Mark Burger
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
The State ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
Incident Command System ◽  
Incident Command ◽  
Response Training ◽  
Unified Command ◽  
Department Of Environmental Conservation ◽  
Synergistic Relationship

ABSTRACT Before the development of the state on-scene coordinators’ course, spill response training available to the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation focused on technical aspects, safety, and the incident command system. To function in a unified command and carry out legislatively mandated tasks, a program was needed to instruct responders in the department's duties. As the course evolved, a synergistic relationship developed, which is redefining the response program.

scholarly journals Polityka władz państwowych wobec wyboru i działalności metropolity Makarego, zwierzchnika Polskiego Autokefalicznego Kościoła Prawosławnego

2015 ◽  
pp. 72-84
Author(s):  
Stefan Dudra
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Close Cooperation ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Church ◽  
Selection Of

Government policy towards the election and activity of Metropolitan Macarius (Oksijuk) In post-war Poland, the state authorities aimed at taking control of the religious life of the individual Churches and religious organizations. Surveillance efforts were made to maintain, among others, by appropriate selection of the superior of the Church and diocesan bishops. The election of Macarius (Oksijuk), Archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Church for the position of Metropolitan in July 1951 years should be understood in this context. The hierarch was also to give a guarantee of loyalty, implement his policy in line with the vision of communist authorities and ensure close cooperation with the Patriarchate of Moscow. Unrealized demands of the state authorities (emerging Russification trends, the lack of wider support in missionary activity among the Greek Catholics) contributed to undertake a process of dismissing Macarius from managing the Orthodox Church. Polityka władz państwowych wobec wyboru i działalności metropolity Makarego, zwierzchnika Polskiego Autokefalicznego Kościoła PrawosławnegoPowojenna polityka państwa wobec Polskiego Autokefalicznego Kościoła Prawosławnego zmierzała do ograniczenia jego roli tylko do zadań religijnych, jednocześnie przy objęciu pozostałej działalności całkowitą kontrolą. Nadzór starano się utrzymywać m.in. poprzez odpowiedni dobór zwierzchnika Kościoła. Jednym z elementów polityki był wybór na stanowisko metropolity w 1951 roku Makarego (Oksijuka), arcybiskupa Rosyjskiego Kościoła Prawosławnego. Po odsunięciu w 1948 roku od zarządzania Kościołem metropolity Dionizego władze wyznaniowe dążyły do obsadzenia tronu metropolitalnego przez hierarchę, który miałby realizować politykę kościelną zgodną z linią polityczną władz. Pomimo zrealizowania założonych celów metropolita Makary okazał się hierarchą, który nie spełnił oczekiwań władz (m.in. w zakresie polityki wobec grekokatolików), co wpłynęło na podjęcie decyzji o usunięciu go z zajmowanego stanowiska.

Unified Command Response To Simultaneous Oil Spills1

1999 ◽  
Vol 1999 (1) ◽  
pp. 937-932
Author(s):  
Meredith Austin
Keyword(s):  
Pressure Drop ◽  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Coast Guard ◽  
Pipeline System ◽  
Incident Command System ◽  
Incident Command ◽  
Level Of Activity ◽  
Unified Command ◽  
Marine Safety ◽  
Responsible Party

ABSTRACT At 10:30 p.m. on January 22, 1998, Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit (MSU) Galveston, Texas received notification of a sudden pressure drop within the High Island Pipeline System (HIPS), indicating a possible break in the pipeline, approximately 55 miles from Galveston in the Gulf of Mexico. The Coast Guard, Responsible Party, and State of Texas established a Unified Command to respond to the incident. At 3:15 p.m. on January 23, the M/V Red Seagull, located approximately 60 miles from Galveston, reported oil around her hull. The Federal Incident Commander established a second Unified Command, using Coast Guard members of the HIPS response, augmented by personnel from other Coast Guard units, the second Responsible Party and the state of Texas. As the level of activity for each of the responses changed, so did the Incident Command structure. The responses were a success due to the Unified Command's understanding of the Incident Command System, and the willingness to bring in additional personnel from other sources as necessary.

Disaster Management: An Introduction to the Incident Command System (ICS)

1986 ◽  
Vol 2 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 145-148
Author(s):  
Ronald L. D'Acchioli
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Emergency Services ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
The State ◽  
Incident Command System ◽  
Incident Command ◽  
Valuable Lesson ◽  
Management Scheme

SUMMARYThe Incident Command System is a personnel and resource management scheme which has several interactive components which make it an effective plan.This system is being used effectively in the State of California for the control of large scale incidents on a daily basis. Dr. Rodney Herbert of London advised us not long ago, during his presentation of the “Moorgate Incident”, an event in which he participated, that a valuable lesson was learned as that catastrophe unfolded and was managed by local emergency services agencies. The lesson learned was that “special plans” for disaster management which sit on a shelf to collect dust while awaiting the event soon become of little use through inactivity. His message was that the protocols used by emergency services agencies for disaster management should merely be an extension of the day-to-day activities of that agency.

Status in the Hereafter

2020 ◽  
pp. 151-207
Author(s):  
Susan Weissman
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Artistic Representations ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Selection Of

This chapter analyses R. Judah the Pious's selection of ghost tales that pertain to the individual's status in the afterlife. It contrasts elements of his tales with rabbinic notions of the afterlife and compares them with those found in tales that circulated in the Germano-Christian environment. In both language and content, the Pietist tales of Sefer ḥasidim that describe the state of the individual in the hereafter contain elements that parallel those found in the early medieval visionary literature, as well as in the high medieval exempla collections. Popular motifs, such as vivid descriptions of corporeal torture by demonic agents, figure prominently in both Sefer ḥasidim and contemporary literary sources and artistic representations. Other shared characteristics include the principle of talio and the disproportion between sin and punishment. The problem of corporeality — already apparent in the areas of the dangerous dead and the attire of the dead — surfaces yet again both in Sefer ḥasidim and in the Christian exempla collections.

Participation of Insurers in the Unified Command System in the United States

1999 ◽  
Vol 1999 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-86
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Garger ◽  
Richard H. Hobbie
Keyword(s):  
Oil Pollution ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Incident Command System ◽  
Incident Command ◽  
Stakeholder Interests ◽  
Ongoing Training ◽  
Unified Command ◽  
Marine Safety

ABSTRACT The introduction and adoption of the Unified Command System (UCS) /Incident Command System (ICS) under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (Public Law 101–380, as amended) (OPA 90) has been largely effective, the ongoing training of Federal On-Scene Coordinators (FOSC) by the Coast Guard's Marine Safety School has raised the quality of spill response management, and the development of Spill Management Teams (SMT) by the private sector has also significantly improved the effectiveness of spill response. However, the role that a Responsible Party's (RP) insurance plays in an event is an aspect of marine casualty response that is not adequately addressed in the ICS or by the FOSC. More often than not, the true financial stakeholder during a casualty is not the RP under OPA 90 but rather its multiple insurers. The failure to consider multiple stakeholder interests in the ICS/UCS may result in a delayed, inefficient response or even paralysis on the part of the RP Many RP's do not have the financial resources to fund the potentially high cost of a spill response and it is only through the cooperation and prompt funding by the insurer that the RP is able to respond at all. Yet the system and organization of the response recognizes the RP, but it does not properly involve the insurers as the true stakeholders. It also fails to recognize the complexities and implications of multiple insurers. Creating a mechanism within the framework of the ICS/UCS that recognizes the insurance stakeholder interests, and requires some level of participation by insurers, would improve casualty and spill response. This paper will examine the foregoing issues and discuss why the insurer stakeholder should be included in the ICS/UCS decision making process.

scholarly journals Methodical Approaches to the Assessment of Budget Efficiency of Territories

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-131
Author(s):  
G. Nedopad ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Financial Management ◽  
Intergovernmental Relations ◽  
Local Level ◽  
The State ◽  
Structural Development ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
The Individual

Annotation. Introduction. According to the principles of the program-target method of budgeting, the diagnosis of budget efficiency of territories is the key goal of assessing the implementation of regional policy and improving the efficiency of budget funds, which, in turn, will not only determine the effectiveness of this process Therefore, assessing the level of budget efficiency of territories is a mandatory element of financial management at the local level. The purpose of the article is to study the methodological approaches of scientists to assess the budget efficiency of territories and on their basis the formation of the author’s directions of assessment of the object of study. Results. It is investigated that in recent years there have been positive trends in the socio-economic development of the state as a whole and its regions in particular, but still the development of individual regions remains asymmetric due to the inability of territories to accumulate the necessary financial resources to local budgets. places, which, in turn, does not contribute to providing appropriate conditions for the structural development of the regions. The existing methodological approaches are systematized, their advantages and disadvantages are analyzed and it is found that they are based on traditional methodological principles and provide for the analysis of absolute, relative indicators, integrated indices and rankings, etc.; do not have a single vision for a set of indicators; mainly focus on assessing the structure of the budget and the individual components of its revenue and expenditure parts. The necessity of improvement of a technique of diagnostics of budgetary efficiency of territories which will provide the analysis in the following directions is substantiated: the state of the budget; financial capacity of the budget; intergovernmental relations; financial independence; budget load; budgeting efficiency; budget management. Conclusions. The system of the formed directions will allow to estimate a level of budgetary efficiency of territories of Ukraine in the conditions of decentralization and to develop long-term budgetary strategy on places. Keywords: territory; methodical approaches; diagnostics; budget efficiency.

Neoliberal governmentality and public health policy in Ireland

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Wilson ◽  
Lindsay Prior
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
The State ◽  
Neoliberal Governmentality ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Liberal Government ◽  
The Individual

This chapter provides an analysis of some of Ireland’s key public health policy documents since 1994 in the context of advanced liberal government. The analysis reveals how Irish public health strategies increasingly target the individual in terms of responsibilising behaviours, inculcating them to make healthy lifestyle choices and mitigate against health risks. Scrutinising the claims and arguments set out in three health documents-Shaping a healthier future (Department of Health, 1994), Quality and fairness – A health service for you(Department of Health and Children, 2001), and Healthy Ireland (Department of Health, 2013)-they note the increasing shift to a market-based model of healthcare, and of the role of the state as one amongst many actors in the health policy arena. Health policymaking, as they argue, has become an increasingly technocratic process, and their analysis raises significant questions about the implications of neoliberal modes of government in the context of the three documents’ acknowledgement of persistent health inequalities in the State.

TRAINING, TESTING, DEMONSTRATING COMPETENCY AND AUDITING A DRILL OR SPILL RESPONSE: DRILLTRAC

2005 ◽  
Vol 2005 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-126
Author(s):  
Elin Storey ◽  
Linda Pilkey-Jarvis
Keyword(s):  
Oil Spills ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
The State ◽  
Organizational Resistance ◽  
Incident Command ◽  
On Line ◽  
Flow Diagrams ◽  
High Standards ◽  
Unified Command ◽  
Trust Responsibility

ABSTRACT The State of Washington developed DRILLTRAC, a training and competency program for managing oil spills and drills. DRILLTRAC represents an organizational commitment to stand-up a well qualified team at spills of all levels in order to fulfill a fundamental trust responsibility to protect public health, safety and the environment. The agency intends to hold itself to the same high standards that are expected from the regulated community. In addition, through the development of a well qualified team, the agency will be able to assist those unregulated spillers with providing an initial spill management team. DRILLTRAC consists of training and testing, required performance demonstrations at drills and spills, seeded staff to coach performance, response auditing and finally training and outreach to the community. The Program centers around a manual that is based on the 2000 Field Operations Guide (FOG), but is greatly enhanced with coaching tips, information flow diagrams and guidance on what actions need to be taken between the meetings. The manual is available on-line. During the first month it became available, the manual was downloaded over a thousand times. Some of the key training points under DRILLTRAC are:How do you ensure adequate staffing?How do you resolve conflict within unified command?How are critical decisions made by unified command documented?How does a trustee organization ensure that the interests of the state are consistently and adequately protected through the incident command system?How do you develop and measure an aggressive response?How do you ensure that the process being followed leads to the development of an aggressive, objective driven Incident Action Plan?How do you ensure consistent drill evaluation and drill design? This paper will discuss the development of the program, the goals and some of the points of organizational resistance in the implementation. DRILLTRAC builds confidence, accountability and mutual trust in spill management. It is mission driven for the state of Washington.

Pre-Disaster Established Trust and Relationships: Two Major Factors Influencing the Effectiveness of Implementing the ICS

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ray Chang ◽  
Joseph Trainor
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Response ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Incident Command System ◽  
Incident Command ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
Goals And Objectives ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract Since the establishment of the Incident Command System (ICS), many discussions have centered on its design, using the failure or success of disaster response to evaluate the effectiveness of this system. However, even prior to implementation, there are certain pre-conditions that must be first satisfied by responders. Two major factors underlying these pre-conditions, that strongly influence the eventual design and consequent functioning of the ICS, are pre-disaster established trust and relationships. This research utilizes qualitative methods to explore the importance of pre-disaster established trust and relationships in the implementation of the ICS. Twenty-eight in-depth qualitative interviews were completed and analyzed. From looking at how ICS users make a variety of different decisions regarding the establishment of the incident command, the setting up of overall response goals and objectives, the implementation of the Incident Action Plan, the selection of new ICS leaders, and the working arrangements made with volunteers, it can be observed that relationship and trust are two very important factors that dictate the successful implementation of the ICS. Based on this analysis, three conclusions could be drawn in this research: (1) any thorough evaluation of the ICS should also include an analysis of any existing pre-conditions, (2) future ICS training should cover strategies to build relationships and trust between response organizations, and (3) additional research should be conducted to understand other factors that influence the implementation of the ICS at scene of disaster.

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