What emergency service volunteering has taught me about incident management
summary
Covers concrete practices and outcomes: the use of SAFER checks for personal readiness, the SMIAX template for Situation Mission Intent Execution Administration and the Australasian inter‑service incident management system for scaling; logistics examples (pumps deployed, Fire and Rescue called when pumps underperform), a vehicle checklist photo and coloured role identifiers, numbers (10,000+ volunteers, ~50 incident hours and ~120 training/maintenance hours), and formal after‑action reviews that generate tracked fixes.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Incident management intro
- 1:24State Emergency Service
- 3:29Assessing readiness
- 5:57SMIAX for summaries
- 8:07Command and communication
- 11:56Australasian interservices incident management system
- 13:18AIMs management principles
- 15:44Five functional areas
- 21:02After-action reviews
- 23:10Training and maintenance
- 26:22Preparing for unlikely
- 27:29Volunteer services in Australia
- 28:31Closing remarks
- 29:16Q&A
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