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Rivers SES Operations
Stages of Unit Readiness &
Action (ASCAS)
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Stage |
Action |
Description |
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1 |
Availability |
Rivers Unit Duty Officer
(DO) determines Unit member availability and advises to
SES Duty Officer ASAP.
Member availability is
usually requested via SMS and e-mail (if time permits).
All members are required to respond to these requests
ASAP- be the answer ‘yes’ or ‘no’.
Some of the reasons that
Unit avail may be obtained include severe incoming
weather and a known incident in which the SES may become
involved. |
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2 |
Standby |
After member availability
has been gotten a team is determined, if the incident is
may impact in the within the next few hours, the team
goes on to STANDBY. This means that the team members
have their gear ready to go, are by their phone and
don’t undertake any actions that will mean that they are
unavailable, such as the consumption of alcohol. |
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3 |
Stand Up |
An incident is imminent
and is likely to impact, a team may be requested to
‘stand up’ at the (Rivers) Shed by either the Rivers
Duty Officer or SES Duty Officer (via Rivers Duty
Officer). This is a pre-emptive action and there may be
no jobs outstanding. At this stage, the team is waiting
at station and is available and ready for tasking.
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4 |
Call Out |
An incident has impacted.
There are now actual jobs waiting. The team is deployed
to a specific job or jobs by CommCen or the SES Incident
Management Team (IMT). |
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5 |
Action |
The team is allocated a
job or a couple of jobs and goes out in to the field to
commence action. |
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0 |
Stand Down |
The team is finished
(either for the day or because the there are no more
jobs outstanding).
The team returns to
station/ base/ Shed and repacks, restows and
reconstitutes resources (vehicles, trailers,
equipment). The team has a operational debrief. Any
reports that need to be completed are done.
Team goes home.
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Note: Should an incident impact
suddenly, or there is a job/ in existence without any warning /
notice, the Standby /Standup stage may be bypassed altogether.
It may go straight from Availability to Call Out.
Rivers SES Operations Glossary
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ACRO |
Full Term/ Explanation |
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AIIMS |
Australasian Inter-agency
Incident Management System.
AIIMS is the name and type
of incident control system used by all ACT emergency
services, except for the AFP, which uses a similar
system known as ICCS. |
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ASAP |
As soon as possible |
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BoM |
Bureau of Meteorology |
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CommCen |
CommCen is the central
communications centre in the ACT Emergency Services
Agency (ESA) that supports the ACT SES and other
emergency services. |
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DO |
Duty Officer |
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ICCS |
Incident Command & Control
System.
Similar to AIIMS, but with
a few subtle differences. |
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ICS |
Incident Control System |
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IMT |
Incident Management Team.
During a large-scale or
complex incident, the ACT SES may set up an incident
management team. The job of the IMT is to manage and
run the operation, ensuring that all operations,
logistics and planning aspects of the incident are
coordinated. |
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SMEAC |
The type of briefing given
by the incident, Unit or team leaders.
Stands for:
S = Situation
M = Mission
E = Execution
A = Admin &
Logistics
C = Command,
Control, Communications
(S =Safety
Q = Questions)
See Rivers
SMEAC template for more information. |
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STW |
Severe Thunderstorm Warning |
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SWW |
Severe Weather Warning |
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SMEAC |
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