Tactics, command, leadership

degree of injury and damage caused. Other activities carried out

within the framework of the total operation are inspections, the

initiation and execution of emergency response operations, edu-

cational activities, personnel development and the maintenance

of emergency preparedness production.

Even if the model is based on municipal rescue services,

this does not exclude the organisation from carrying out tasks

in a crisis management system, even if section 2 of the Civil

Protection Act (2003:778) is not met. The intentions of this book

are applicable in this context also.

The terms of reference here are the work that is carried

out in connection with incidents or accidents or the obvious

threat of them. A prerequisite is naturally also that this prima-

rily concerns municipal fire brigades, i.e. that the legal defini-

tion of a municipal fire brigade is met. This part of operations

we will refer to as the turn-out service. The turn­out service is

then a part of the total area of operations the municipal struc-

ture of providing rescue services is responsible for. Note, howe-

ver, that the turn­out service does not only concern the initia-

tion and execution of response operations. Emergency preparedness

production, i.e. the capacity to maintain a certain level of prepa-

redness for conceivable situation developments and potential in-

cidents and accidents is also included. The turn­out service must

Operations performed
by the municipal
structure for providing
rescue services.

Prevent incidents and

accidents and minimise

the consequences

caused by incidents and

accidents:

• Carry out inspections


• Initiate emergency
  response operations


• Execute emergency
  response operations


• Training


• Maintain emergency
  preparedness


• Personnel development


• etc

Operations performed by

the municipal structure for

providing rescue services

Environment