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Homeland Security and Criminal Justice Administration
OPSEC and site security
Importance of personal accountability at scene of incident
Personnel accountability mechanisms are the most important in any rescue operations to ensure that rescuers strive to protect themselves and mandatory at emergency scenes. Moreover, this system helps track the rescuers' identification, their role and location during emergency. It also ensures only authorized personnel who are trained and have been provided with specific instruction are operating within the scene of the incident. In most cases, these systems employ the use of badges, lists, tags, use of bar code readers and radio frequency identification (IAFC & NFPA, 2009). Electronically-based systems, such as bar codes and RFIDs, are more often capable of relaying real-time information that can be transmitted to several stations at the same time providing more efficient monitoring and evaluation.
All rescuers in any rescue mission are responsible and accountable for their safety at the incident scene. Therefore, they are expected to abide to the accountability systems put in place. Some of the measures taken to enhance personal accountability may include establishing written guidelines to be used as an inventory of all members involved in any operation. Members will also be expected to follow these guidelines with strict adherence and must comply with the accountability systems being used. An incident leader or rather commander will take responsibility for keeping a worksheet that details all the accountability protocols and is expected to maintain this worksheet throughout the operation. In incidents where the personnel are sub-divided into smaller teams, their team leaders shall be responsible for maintaining the accountability system within that team. Moreover, the incident commander is mandated to limit access to the area where the incident has happened using the appropriate identification procedures that is stipulated within the accountability...
This accounting system should also have provisions to ensure proper tracking of members responding to the emergency and their respective assignments. It is also proper that a dedicated communication channel be established to enable effective warning of personnel in case of imminent dangers that might be detected (Angle, Harlow, Gala, Lombardo, Maciuba, 2011). These practices are some of the practical ways that personnel accountability can be implemented to enhance security of rescuers and other personnel dealing with emergencies.
Operations Security (OPSEC) is a process of indentifying, controlling, and protecting classified information on an on-going mission or operation. This enables a thorough process of predicting leakages of sensitive information and correcting these loopholes. Site security involves measures and procedures taken at the place of occurrence of an incident to safeguard any evidence and also prevent further damage by identifying secondary harmful objects. The importance of site security is the prevention of further harm to responders, collect evidence to ascertain the probable cause of the incident and allow proper handling of the effects of the incident without many interruptions (Maniscalco & Christen, 2011).
Fig.1: The OPSEC process
Several of principles have been effectuated with an aim of addressing issues regarding protocols, structures and practices at emergency scenes. These standards are contained the Incident Management/Unified Command (IM/UC) structure. These measures were established after the unfortunate incident in U.S. At the World Trade Center where gapping inconsistencies became apparent with problems between the various agencies involved and disagreements on establishment of a chain of command. If proper structures were in place then, such as the IM/UC structure, some of these issues might not have arisen (Maniscalco & Christen, 2011).
In some incidents, such as after a terrorist attack, which at times is very hard…
Preparation for a chemical attack
An attack of chemical nature is the deliberate release of toxic chemicals such as gases, solids and liquids so as to harm people and the surrounding environment. With the current world trends and terrorist actions has prompted a need for preparedness by the relevant authorities so as to handle adequately such a situation in the event that it occurs. In most cases, the effect of a chemical attack could be very devastating in comparison with other natural and pandemic disasters experienced in the past. Due to this revelation, it appears appropriate to take preventive measures and try to prepare adequately for it (Tucker, 1999).
The medical arena in particular needs to be prepared for three general categories of possible chemical attacks. The first category involves those chemicals that affect the exposed victims immediately or within a short span and its effects can easily be linked to the type of chemical. The second category may involve a chemical substance that may take time to show symptoms in the exposed individual and therefore is able to spread to a wide population before the victims realize they have been exposed. Finally, if a chemical substance can be linked to a specific terror group, then the medical practitioners will act as surveillance and alert the proper authorities once they link the chemical to a particular terrorist. In lieu with this, the CDC now keeps a database with a list of the most likely biological and
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