Winter is Coming – How to Respond to Severe Weather Incidents (Incident Response)
Get your weather apps at the ready Goes without saying, but monitor weather forecasts & expect to be able to issue advance warning of Severe Weather conditions if required to your team. I find Accuweather particularly good. Liaise with your team…but in advance Incident Response requires a team. Liaise with Facility Manager to monitor water supplies and also provision of heating, ventilation and air conditioning. Organise repairs in advance as necessary. Address pedestrian areas Co-ordinate with the facilities team to safeguard pedestrian areas and minimise the impact of high winds, ice, snow or flooding. Be sure to give priority to areas of high use. Avoid work in isolated or high risk areas Make a judgement call and …
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We’re Excited to Announce that ICR: Fire & Rescue™ will be launched at this year’s Emergency Services Show! After a hugely successful campaign in Ireland where over 50% of the Fire & Rescue Services have adopted the technology in less than 12 months, we will launch the product in the UK. Incident Response Software quickly record key decisions ICR: Fire & Rescue™ (Incident Response Software) enables Incident Commanders to quickly capture their decision log using a tablet at the scene of incidents in real time. By doing so they will increase safety at the incident ground, and then demonstrate why they made those decisions following the incident. In built safety features also ensure they conduct dynamic risk assessments during the incident, …
Read MoreEvolution of Incident Management Software
Early Beginnings Nearly five years ago I asked a customer……”would you take this as an app?”, the fact he said “Yes” has made a profound impact on my professional career in the time since. You see, we had been struggling to come up with a clever way of giving out incident response plans to the senior management team (…..easy part) and a clever way of keeping the information in those plans up to date (…..not so easy part). It also had to be with them 24/7/365 (…the really difficult part). You could call it a moment of inspiration, but more than likely it was a moment of opportunism (…..the senior management team had just received their shiny new iPhone 4’s the week …
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