Brett Wuth at 13:58, 17 November 2008

2008-11-17T13:58:46Z

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Develop a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) regarding use of
untrained/uncertified volunteers.

==Requirements:==
* At least one of the persons working on this task should be
familiar with the untrained/uncertified volunteers that PCSAR has
used in the past.==Tasks:==
* Review/Consider various groups of volunteers
* members who are capable of a skill but are not interested or
able to take the time for certification* non-members who commonly help with incidents and are generally
recognized as skilled, but are not interested in joining, or taking
formal training or certification* non-members who are not well know to the team and carry no
certification (the classic spontaneous volunteer) (developing a
plan to these people is a separate task: [[SpontaneousVolunteersPreplanTask]])* Identify the skills and tasks we might continue to use
untrained/uncertified volunteers for
* e.g., Appropriate use of local experts (e.g. terrain,
etc.)* consider where we've used them in the past* Identify the risks of using untrained/uncertified volunteers
* What are our liability issues?* Get formal legal opinion on risks / liabilities if an accident
/ fatality / screw up happens as a result of the use of untrained /
uncertified searchers* Is it feasible to have non-members which we commonly use to
join and train/certify?* prepare recommendations
* SOP's* goals for reducing reliance on untrained/uncertified
volunteers* review recommendations with [[PreplanCommittee]]* present recommendation to BoardCommittee (because there are aspects of
organizational responsibility)

UntrainedVolunteerSOPTask - Revision history

Brett Wuth at 13:58, 17 November 2008