Critiques/2010-08-24

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Suggestions coming from the August 24, 2010 critique regarding the 2010-08-04 Quad incident and the 2010-08-18 Table Mountain incident.

Pincher Creek SAR routinely performs a critique after a Search and Rescue incident in order to learn what should be done differently or the same in the next similar incident. Critiques are not about criticism but rather about learning. They are normally chaired by a Search Manager that was not involved in the incident. The suggestions that are brought forward through the critique process are presented in this report.


Contents

Participants

Notes

Committee / Organization

The suggestions are being passed on to the indicated organizations/committees for their consideration. We recognize that not all suggestions may be appropriate, and some may already have been implemented.


PCSAR Board

Mandate Relevant to Incidents:

  • Overall ability of PCSAR to accomplish its mission.
  • Organizational policies
  • Relationships with Tasking Agencies and Fellow Responding Organizations.
  • Financing, budget

suggestions identified:

PCSAR Preplan Committee

Mandate Relevant to Incidents:

  • Expertise in search and rescue.
  • Standard Operating Procedures for incidents.
  • Post incident critique, review and follow-up.

suggestions identified:

PCSAR Equipment Committee

Mandate Relevant to Incidents:

  • Obtaining and keeping equipment ready.

suggestions identified:

PCSAR Call-Out Committee

Mandate Relevant to Incidents:

  • Respond to First Call from Tasking Agency
  • Contacting members during an incident.

suggestions identified:

PCSAR Membership Committee

Mandate Relevant to Incidents:

  • Recruiting members.
  • Tracking members contact information, skills and equipment.

suggestions identified:

PCSAR Training Committee

Mandate Relevant to Incidents:

  • Training members.

suggestions identified:

Tasking Agency

Mandate Relevant to Incidents:

  • Overall legal responsibility for incident.

suggestions identified:

Fellow Responding Organizations

Mandate Relevant to Incidents:

  • Response to incident in accordance with their individual mandate and ability.

suggestions identified:

Suggestions

Critiques/2010-08-24/Sug1:


Suggestion #1: Add to SAR Tasking Guidelines that the Manager on Call communicate directly with the RCMP

Committee handling: preplan
Value to PCSAR mandate: high
Difficulty to implement: done

Action: Address in SAR Pre-plan


Critiques/2010-08-24/Sug2:


Suggestion #2: All Search Mangers should have phone contacts for EMS ambulance in order to improve on inter-agency communication and avoid mistaken directions including Channel(s) 1&2.

Committee handling: training
Value to PCSAR mandate: high
Difficulty to implement: easy

also preplan committee

Search managers and net control should know that we should use Channel 1 as preferred means of communicating with PCES during incidents.

  • Verify with PCES

Channel 2 is simplex.

Considered, but rejected: having cell phone numbers of ambulances. Won't know which ambulance is deployed.

Action: Address in SAR Training

Same as Critiques/2010-08-24/Sug2.

Reviewed at 2010-10-19 Preplan meeting.


Critiques/2010-08-24/Sug3:


Suggestion #3: Interagency Communication should be improved

Committee handling: board
Value to PCSAR mandate: not rated
Difficulty to implement: not rated

Action: Training with Table-top exercise among all agencies

Could include all agencies.

Request to PCCEMA to organize.

Reviewed at 2010-10-19 Preplan meeting.

refer to tasking agency (PCCEMA)


Critiques/2010-08-24/Sug4:


Suggestion #4: Equipment in SARCAR and Equipment Trailer should include Heat Blankets and Hot Packs.

Committee handling: equipment
Value to PCSAR mandate: high
Difficulty to implement: medium

Fire Chief has offered hot packs.

Hypothermia kits can't freeze so stored in Fire Hall.

Rejected: understand why kits can't freeze and see if constraint can be ignored.

Consider: heated container in equipment trailer allowing equipment that require minimum temperature to be kept there year round.

Action: check out and procure this survival equipment.

Reviewed at 2010-10-19 Preplan meeting.


Critiques/2010-08-24/Sug5:


Suggestion #5: ensure that all drivers can back up and haul out the SAR trailer

Committee handling: training
Value to PCSAR mandate: medium
Difficulty to implement: easy

SAR spent 20 minutes lining up trailer hitch/chose wrong hitch.

  • practice deployment of SAR trailer.

Assuming that we move the equipment trailer to the firehall, value is only medium.

Rejected: Identify who can do it, who is needed.

Reviewed at 2010-10-19 Preplan meeting.


Critiques/2010-08-24/Sug6:


Suggestion #6: Practice should be to haul trailer out to most incident.

Committee handling: preplan
Value to PCSAR mandate: high
Difficulty to implement: done

Rejected: Policy to haul to every incident. Incidents supporting other teams may not require.

Action:

  • Remind Managers.
  • Remind Managers what's in it.
  • have as backup training.

Reviewed at 2010-10-19 Preplan meeting, 2010-11-16 Preplan meeting.


Critiques/2010-08-24/Sug7:


Suggestion #7: research best practice for transport of injured subject via truck bed, train to that standard

Committee handling: preplan
Value to PCSAR mandate: medium
Difficulty to implement: easy

also training committee

  • Stretcher should have been tied down.
    • recommend use as training exercise.
    • tie-downs are available.
  • would be better to tether/and winch up of another truck.
  • only occurs 1 in 5 or more years

Consider: could be in purvue of rope rescue response.

Reviewed at 2010-10-19 Preplan meeting.


Members:Critiques/2010-08-24/Sug8:

Members:Critiques/2010-08-24/Sug8


Critiques/2010-08-24/Sug9:


Suggestion #9: Subject removal and evacuation planning.

Committee handling: training
Value to PCSAR mandate: high
Difficulty to implement: medium

Acton: Training should prepare joint exercise among SAR, PCES, Ambulance Services on Evacuation Planning.

Reviewed at 2010-10-19 Preplan meeting.


Critiques/2010-08-24/Sug10:


Suggestion #10: clarify roles and command structure/hierarchy when several agencies are involved in/responding to the same incident.

Committee handling: training
Value to PCSAR mandate: high
Difficulty to implement: medium

Action: Joint training on Incident Commanding

Reviewed at 2010-10-19 Preplan meeting.

See User:Brett Wuth/Working Notes/2012-12-01 leadership training


Critiques/2010-08-24/Sug11:


Suggestion #11: that the trailer be stored at the Fire Hall

Committee handling: equipment
Value to PCSAR mandate: not rated
Difficulty to implement: done

To have a faster response.

Reviewed at 2010-10-19 Preplan meeting.


Critiques/2010-08-24/Sug12:


Suggestion #12: Training in the use of PCES radio channels (1& 2) as well as in the “Mutual Aid” channel.

Committee handling: training
Value to PCSAR mandate: not rated
Difficulty to implement: not rated

Action: Training exercise

Same as Critiques/2010-08-24/Sug2.

Reviewed at 2010-10-19 Preplan meeting.

  • duplicate


Critiques/2010-08-24/Sug13:


Suggestion #13: rope rescue equipment is transferred to the SAR trailer

Committee handling: unassigned
Value to PCSAR mandate: not rated
Difficulty to implement: done

Reviewed at 2010-10-19 Preplan meeting.


Critiques/2010-08-24/Sug14:


Suggestion #14: arrange meeting with new RCMP Commander

Committee handling: board
Value to PCSAR mandate: high
Difficulty to implement: not rated

also preplan

Cpl. Lorne Cobb.

To know what we do, build trust. Consider inviting to tabletop, critique.

Reviewed at 2010-10-19 Preplan meeting.

Merge into Critiques/2010-03-21/Sug6.


Critiques/2010-08-24/Sug15:


Suggestion #15: Had the original message gone off right at the shale slide? Was there too much hysteria?

Committee handling: unassigned
Value to PCSAR mandate: low
Difficulty to implement: not rated

Not our mandate.

Did public in Table Mtn incident over react?

How do we know what is fact/fiction?

Reviewed at 2010-10-19 Preplan meeting.


Critiques/2010-08-24/Sug16:


Suggestion #16: Use a magnetic wand to show trailer alignment.

Committee handling: equipment
Value to PCSAR mandate: low
Difficulty to implement: not rated

Small ticket. No need for magnet. Remove when done. V-skirt to guide in. Could be done at welding shop.


Critiques/2010-08-24/Sug17:


Suggestion #17: Call out needs more than 15 minutes to marshal at fire hall

Committee handling: preplan
Value to PCSAR mandate: high
Difficulty to implement: done

Need to give 30 minutes. Focus on efficiency.

Reviewed at 2010-10-19 Preplan meeting.

Reviewed at 2013-06-19 Preplan meeting.

  • Problem is that people at the end of the list only have a few minutes to arrive at the fire hall, whereas the people at the start have plenty of time.
  • Easiest solution is to use our new automated call out system.
  • Eric Bruder to check with Linda on deployment and work on making this as soon as possible.


Critiques/2010-08-24/Sug18:


Suggestion #18: Train new call-out

Committee handling: preplan
Value to PCSAR mandate: high
Difficulty to implement: done

(Olga and Mavis)

Reviewed at 2010-10-19 Preplan meeting.

also: callout committee


Critiques/2010-08-24/Sug19:


Suggestion #19: EMS all terrain stretcher could not have gone in all way. It would have been a tough pack; Pincher SAR's would have been better.

Committee handling: unassigned
Value to PCSAR mandate: low
Difficulty to implement: not rated

Re: Table Mtn.

The stretcher actually could have been taken all the way. It's critical to get a backboard into situations like this. May need to send a hasty team ahead of the stretcher.

Reviewed at 2010-11-16 Preplan meeting.


Critiques/2010-08-24/Sug20:

Critiques/2010-08-24/Sug20

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Description Add to SAR Tasking Guidelines that the Manager on Call communicate directly with the RCMP  +, All Search Mangers should have phone contacts for EMS ambulance in order to improve on inter-agency communication and avoid mistaken directions including Channel(s) 1&2.  +, Interagency Communication should be improved  +, Equipment in SARCAR and Equipment Trailer should include Heat Blankets and Hot Packs.  +, ensure that all drivers can back up and haul out the SAR trailer  +, Practice should be to haul trailer out to most incident.  +, research best practice for transport of injured subject via truck bed, train to that standard  +, Subject removal and evacuation planning.  +, clarify roles and command structure/hierarchy when several agencies are involved in/responding to the same incident.  +, that the trailer be stored at the Fire Hall  +, Training in the use of PCES radio channels (1& 2) as well as in the “Mutual Aid” channel.  +, rope rescue equipment is transferred to the SAR trailer  +, arrange meeting with new RCMP Commander  +, Had the original message gone off right at the shale slide? Was there too much hysteria?  +, Use a magnetic wand to show trailer alignment.  +, Call out needs more than 15 minutes to marshal at fire hall  +, Train new call-out  +, and EMS all terrain stretcher could not have gone in all way. It would have been a tough pack; Pincher SAR's would have been better.  +
Difficulty to implement done  +, easy  +, not rated  +, and medium  +
Full page name Critiques/2010-08-24  +
Sequence number 1  +, 2  +, 3  +, 4  +, 5  +, 6  +, 7  +, 9  +, 10  +, 11  +, 12  +, 13  +, 14  +, 15  +, 16  +, 17  +, 18  +, and 19  +
Value to PCSAR mandate high  +, not rated  +, medium  +, and low  +
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