Tactics, command, leadership

It has been a rainy summer and there has been extensive flooding in Allmänsta municipality. Because of the need to maintain a de ...

When the organisation grows and the response operation is es- calated, individuals remain in the same organisation and retain th ...

Control 10. Gaining and maintaining control The purpose of an emergency response operation is to restore or- der to a chaotic an ...

The term fire control is also used in connection with forest fire- fighting. It then encompasses the whole process of systematic ...

purpose and the aim is to offer assistance to people in dangerous situations. Within control theory, from which the term control ...

hose and nozzle as well as the water supply is consid ered as a process with the purpose of transferring water from one place to ...

others are more or less ignored, depending on, for example, the risk situation in the municipality at the time. A goal for decis ...

Physical obstacles, geographic conditions or the fact that an indivi- dual can only observe and process so much information can ...

We talk of cognitive systems that constitute both people and machines. Cognitive systems work by using knowledge of the sys- tem ...

The municipal structure for providing rescue services receives an alarm concerning a fire in a flat. There is a general lack of ...

to work from indications since the status of the situation is as yet unknown. The situation is then handled on the basis of ex- ...

Degree of control Control can also be described as how actions are decided upon and executed, where the degree of detail and fun ...

Other parameters that can influence the control level are the number of simultaneous goals that are set, available plans, under- ...

control levels/function areas as well as how to handle new alter- native means in different types of situations. The emphasis li ...

This type of control can be taken as a form of feedback control. When a plan is implemented, the type of control is changed, fro ...

In a corresponding way, for example, a commander in system command works with emergency preparedness in the municipa- lity to ma ...

orientation of both the individual response operation and the sys- tem at large are not sufficiently fast or effective. It is ne ...

before a concrete assistance need arises. This also means that the various phases within the perspective of the Civil Protection ...

During a response operation for a fire in a department store in Allmänsta, work has been continuing for some time. Control has n ...

Conclusive action in connection to a specific response operation concerns forming concrete goals for meeting the assistance need ...