Tactics, command, leadership

ness factor to compensate for incorrectly initiated or execu-
ted measures. This enables the measures, in some cases, to be
remedied during the course of the operation. Even if a wrong
or less suitable measure is applied, or if such is carried out in
the wrong or in an inadequate way, there is still the opportu-
nity to adjust for this during the course of events, by applying
further measures, for example, or by breaking off the unsatis­
factory measure. This reasoning applies also in the case of
several simultaneous ongoing response operations. However,
the time and space frame for the problem will then be com-
pletely different ­ extended in time and expanded in space.
Continual assessment and adjustment of the resource capa-
city in relation to the level of preparedness, risk situation and
response operation corrects any imbalance in the system. That
something is not as it should be on occasion does not prevent cor-
rection. The problem is perhaps more a question of identifying
the error.
If during an individual response operation there are sufficient
resources to execute several measures simultaneously, for ex-
ample, combustion gas ventilation at the same time a searching
for victims in a limited area using BA firefighters, the measures
must be coordinated so that they complement one another. The
execution of a measure must not be allowed to have a negative ef-
fect on another measure, unless this is advantageous in the short
or long term. In the same way if a measure to provide combustion
ventilation is to be executed as well as BA firefighting, they must
be coordinated as the former relies on mechanical ventilation
(applying pressure to the area of the fire) in combination with
the entry into the building of BA firefighters. The combustion gas
ventilation is only a part of the measure. It is often necessary to
combine a measure of this type with others to achieve the best
possible result. There are many separate measures that are based
on many others and which in turn create good or poor conditions
for successive ones. It is the ability to describe and process the dy-
namics of the situation, i.e. the time and space dependency that
exists between the damage development and the capacity of resour-
ces, that forms the basis of the total resource management. Note
also that it is necessary to be able to manage the dynamics of the
whole system, including, for example, the dynamic relationship (in
terms of, among other things, competition and resources) that may
exist between different response operations.