A significant part of control restriction arises through legislation
that has to be adhered to. In the case of emergency response ope-
rations this can, for example, concern limitations imposed by the
Civil Protection Act or working environment legislation. Both of
these concern what can or may be done as much as what cannot
or may not be done.
The different types of restrictions that arise in time and
space are important. One important aspect, among others,
concerns what significance the restrictions in time and space
have. On the side of these restrictions there are other limiting
factors, for example, the possibilities an individual has to
execute tasks or response operations. The way in which time is
used is not only controlled by restrictions in time and space. In
the case of an emergency response operation one can, for ex-
ample, ask oneself the following:- How are the possibilities for the commander to execute a task
within a given time or at a given place limited? What makes
certain alternatives for action possible and others not? It could,
for example, simply be a question of shortcomings in compe-
tence, i.e. that the education, training or experience required
for the rescue service personnel to carry out certain types of
tasks is missing. It could also concern resource shortcomings,
such as insufficient foam.
Connection
restrictions. Several
measures at the
incident site are
connected and
dependent on one
another.