Critiques/2010-08-24
From PCSAR
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.
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Participants
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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
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Action: Address in SAR Pre-plan |
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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.
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. |
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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) |
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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. |
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SAR spent 20 minutes lining up trailer hitch/chose wrong hitch.
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. |
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Rejected: Policy to haul to every incident. Incidents supporting other teams may not require. Action:
Reviewed at 2010-10-19 Preplan meeting, 2010-11-16 Preplan meeting. |
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also training committee
Consider: could be in purvue of rope rescue response. Reviewed at 2010-10-19 Preplan meeting. |
| Committee handling | Suggestion/Committee/List/preplan +, Suggestion/Committee/List/training +, Suggestion/Committee/List/board +, and Suggestion/Committee/List/equipment + |
| 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. +, and research best practice for transport of injured subject via truck bed, train to that standard + |
| Difficulty to implement | done +, easy +, not rated +, and medium + |
| Full page name | Critiques/2010-08-24 + |
| Sequence number | 1 +, 2 +, 3 +, 4 +, 5 +, 6 +, and 7 + |
| Value to PCSAR mandate | high +, not rated +, and medium + |
