Tactics, command, leadership

After a long period of heavy rain and large quantities of water from melted snow causing extreme rates of flow into rivers and l ...

A continual weighing must be conducted between maintaining preparedness and conducting response operations or taking ac- tion in ...

An additional problem is that one seldom reflects over the rescue service concept other than when financial reimbursement is at ...

be a basis for formulating priorities, for example, for what is to be achieved and how the resources will be allocated, for exam ...

framework of operations, i.e. which physical and mental limits the response operation is within. The most common is that the geo ...

operations. The fire chiefs’s command function thus remains active. Incident command can thus be considered as loaned out. As ne ...

Requesting official duty. When necessary, everyone between 18 and 65 years of age is obligated to participate in rescue service ...

on the rights of others’ as regulated by the Civil Protection Act provides the incident commander with considerable authorities ...

4. Leading and being led For emergency response operations that are extensive, that conti- nue over a long period of time, that ...

relationship to the municipality as an employer. The issues rela- ted to management staff’s responsibilities and duties therefor ...

are related to employment. An agreement between an employer and employee on employment is based on a certain performance of labo ...

the equipment is used, and that the employer ensures that the knowledge required to execute tasks with the equipment is availabl ...

rations and in conjunction with emergency rescue operations (Glavå, 2001). In regard to labour management rights, it generally a ...

Safety responsibility entails the obligation to take measures to ensu- re that the working environment is satisfactory and that ...

is at least as important as identifying the incident commander. Both for safety and practical reasons, it is important that an o ...

matter or in certain types of matters, can for various reasons want to commission someone else, a so­called delegate, to make ce ...

of measures or in some other way utilising available resources. This may seem obvious, but there must be a realistic connection ...

pointed by a fire chief. This is done in advance in the great majo- rity of cases and the work that a fire chief at a municipal ...

issue from one case to the next, it is still, however, the assisting authority that is the employer of the personnel who are sen ...

as required by law or ordinances, or that one can otherwise expect. Both decisions to take measures and to not take measures mus ...