AIIMS 2017 Awareness

1. AIIMS 2017 Awareness Session 0: Introduction and Welcome Edition 1 July 2019

2. What do you know about these topics? AIIMS principles. Command, Control and Coordination. Common Operating Picture. The functional areas: • Incident control • Planning • Intelligence • Public Information • Operations • Investigation • Logistics • Finance

3. The course consists of four sessions Incident action planning Incidents and incident management AIIMS principles and underlying concepts What is AIIMS?

4. The goal of this program is To provide you with an overview of the Australasian Inter-service Incident Management System (AIIMS) framework.

5. The assessment requires you to Attend all sessions. Lead and participate actively in group discussions and presentations during the training. Complete the written assessments consisting of: • multiple choice questions • case-study/scenario

6. AIIMS 2017 Awareness Session 1: What is AIIMS?

7. Enables and blockers – an activity Introduction to AIIMS More about AIIMS This session will cover the following topics

8. Working with others – an activity The AIIMS 2017 manual This session will cover the following topics

9. At the end of this session you will be able to do the following Explain what AIIMS is. Provide examples of situations in which AIIMS can be used. Describe how AIIMS helps in the effective management of incidents.

10. Enablers and blockers – a 10 minute activity Identify factors that make working together easier and contributed to achieving results. Identify factors that hinders working together and caused activities not to progress, or produce unsatisfactory results.

11. What is AIIMS AIIMS is a system for the management of all incidents. Incidents can be imminent or actual, occurring in the natural or built environment. AIIMS can be used for many other activities that emergency management organisations, and those that support them, have to deal with.

12. What is an incident? AIIMS defines the incident as an event, occurrence or set of circumstances that: • has a definite spatial extent; • has a definite duration; • calls for human intervention; • has a set of concluding conditions that can be defined; • is or will be under the control of an individual who has the authority to make decisions about the means by which it will be brought to a resolution.

13. Incident management is defined as… Those processes, decisions, and actions taken to resolve and emergency incident and to support recovery, thereby enabling the community to return to normality.

14. More about AIIMS AIIMS provides a common incident management system for all responding agencies and personnel. AIIMS integrates the activities and resources for the effective and safe resolution of any incident.

15. More about AIIMS The system and the principles on which AIIMS is based can also be applied to any non-emergency response situations, such as major sporting and cultural events, exhibitions and conferences.

16. Benefits of an incident management system Minimises the impact on the community and environment Facilitates an effective and efficiently controlled response to an incident Provides a safe working environment for all responders.

17. About the AIIMS Manual For personnel who will be applying AIIMS to incidents and those who will be supervising and preparing personnel for the task. Supported by procedural and technical doctrine of the organisations that use AIIMS. Developed in accordance with the Fundamentals of Doctrine: Best Practice Creation, V.2 (AFAC, 2016).

18. Part 1 of the AIIMS 2017 manual covers incident management Introduction AIIMS in emergency management AIIMS principles and underpinning concepts Regional and state arrangements Incident classification Managing the incident Building an incident management structure Incident action planning Risk management Relief and recovery Information flow Incident management team member skills

19. Part 2 of the AIIMS 2017 manual covers the functions of incident management Incident control Planning Intelligence Public information Operations Investigation Logistics Finance

20. Doctrine

21. Managing incidents effectively requires the following Everyone working towards a common objective. Good communication flows. Good teamwork in multi-agency teams. Learning from past events through debriefs and shared information. Clearly defined roles. Established arrangements for organisations to work together.

22. Managing incidents effectively requires the following A consistent approach. A common language, minimising confusion about terms used. A single point of contact or coordination. Frequent evaluation of activities, to enable revision of planning. Interchangeable equipment and consistent pre-planning. Proper briefing of personnel.

23. AIIMS in emergency management ‘Comprehensive’ and ‘integrated’ approach to emergency management. ‘All hazards–all agencies’ model of emergency management. Whole of government approach. It is essential that government agencies communicate, work together, and plan collaboratively with communities.

24. AIIMS in emergency management

25. In summary, AIIMS is an emergency management system that provides A comprehensive and integrated response to any type of emergency An “all hazards-all agencies” model A “whole of government” approach.

26. AIIMS 2017 Awareness Session 2: AIIMS Principles and underpinning concepts

27. AIIMS principles The five principles of AIIMS Underpinning concepts Terminology This session will cover these topics

28. At the end of this session you will be able to Explain the principles of AIIMS. Demonstrate an understanding of the underpinning concepts that support each principle. Differentiate between the terms Control, Command and Coordination.

29. AIIMS is based on five principles Unity of command Span of control Functional management Management by objectives Flexibility

30. Unity of command Each individual should report to only one Supervisor. There is only one Incident Controller (IC). There is one set of common objectives for all those responding to an incident, leading to one consolidated plan for all responders.

31. Span of control Span of control refers to the number of groups or individuals that can be successfully supervised by one person.

32. AIIMS define a function as follows An activity or grouping of activities addressing core responsibilities of the Incident Controller. There are many different combinations of tasks that could be grouped together as ‘functions’. AIIMS identifies eight groupings as the most useful for managing incidents.

33. Functional management within AIIMS Within AIIMS, the functions are performed and managed by the Incident Controller. When required, the Incident Controller can delegate one or more of the functions. However, at all times, the Incident Controller still remains accountable.

34. About each function

35. About each function

36. Establishing sections The prompts for establishing sections may include: • the functional officer is becoming overwhelmed with their existing responsibilities • information flow to the Incident Management Team, relating to the tasks of that function, is inadequate, and a direct report to the Incident Controller is desirable • the function requirements to the incident are known to be so complex that a section is required to deal with them.

37. Safety Safety is more than a function – it is an inherent task of all functions.

38. Management by objectives The Incident Controller communicates agreed incident objectives* to everyone involved in the incident. All incident personnel work towards these objectives. The Incident Action Plan outlines the current plan for achieving these objectives. *Incident objectives should capture the Incident Controller’s Intent.

39. Flexibility A flexible approach to the application of AIIMS is essential. The system can be applied across the full spectrum of incidents. Any rigid application of the structures and processes may compromise the effectiveness of the response.

40. Underpinning concepts

41. Command, control and coordination

42. Command, control and coordination

43. In summary, AIIMS is based on principles and concepts AIIMS is based on five principles • Unity of command • Span of control • Functional management • Management by objectives • Felicity AIIMS has defined underpinning concepts

44. AIIMS 2017 Awareness Session 3: Incidents and incident management

45. Incident classification Managing an incident Building incident management structures Delegation and Deputy Incident Controllers This session will cover these topics

46. At the end of this session you will be able to Outline the different ways that incidents can be classified. Explain the role of an Incident Management Team (IMT). Outline the tasks undertaken by the IMT.

47. Incidents are classified in three levels Level 1 incidents are characterised by being able to be resolved through the use of local or initial response resources only.

48. Incidents are classified in three levels Level 2 incidents are more complex in either size, resources or risks.

49. Incidents are classified in three levels Level 3 incidents: • are characterised by degrees of complexity that may require the establishment of divisions for effective management of the situation • will usually involve delegation of all functions.

50. Managing an incident Incident management is defined as: ‘ …those processes, decisions and actions taken to resolve an emergency incident and to support recovery that will enable the community to return to normality.’