Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare for land search and rescue response
- Establish command and control to conduct land search and rescue operations.
- Conduct urgency assessment to determine level of response.
- Establish forward command post to facilitate coordination of land search and rescue operations.
- Establish communications to facilitate flow of information.
- Assess characteristics of target and environment to inform search and rescue response.
- Access jurisdictional information management systems to gather information on target.
- Determine current location, destination and resources
- Identify maps to source information.
- Interpret information from maps to ensure accurate parameters of search area.
- Analyse data to plot incident location.
- Calculate incident distance and location from given landmarks.
- Triangulate incident from distinct features to fix a position.
- Plot search areas to determine resource allocation and asset deployment for probable and possible search areas.
- Evaluate terrain to identify impacts on land search and rescue operations.
- Identify safe routes and potential access restrictions to determine access to search area.
- Identify specialist resources to facilitate land search and rescue operations.
- Provide grid references to search and rescue operations team
- Calculate grid references using magnetic bearings, and/or latitude and longitude and/or incident location details provided by callers.
- Communicate six figure grid references to search and rescue operations team.
- Communicate references to field personnel for use in portable navigational aids.
- Communicate directional information to operations team on request.
- Perform land search and rescue response
- Establish cordons to limit size of search area.
- Use land search strategies to develop an accurate search area.
- Select land search patterns in accordance with conditions and terrain.
- Allocate taskings for resources and assets in accordance with capability.
- Apply portable navigation aids to provide live information to search coordinator, where available.
- Analyse information from portable navigation aids to determine areas searched by teams.
- Modify land search patterns using on scene intelligence.
- Prepare for land search and rescue response
- Establish command and control to conduct land search and rescue operations.
- Conduct urgency assessment to determine level of response.
- Establish forward command post to facilitate coordination of land search and rescue operations.
- Establish communications to facilitate flow of information.
- Assess characteristics of target and environment to inform search and rescue response.
- Access jurisdictional information management systems to gather information on target.
- Determine current location, destination and resources
- Identify maps to source information.
- Interpret information from maps to ensure accurate parameters of search area.
- Analyse data to plot incident location.
- Calculate incident distance and location from given landmarks.
- Triangulate incident from distinct features to fix a position.
- Plot search areas to determine resource allocation and asset deployment for probable and possible search areas.
- Evaluate terrain to identify impacts on land search and rescue operations.
- Identify safe routes and potential access restrictions to determine access to search area.
- Identify specialist resources to facilitate land search and rescue operations.
- Provide grid references to search and rescue operations team
- Calculate grid references using magnetic bearings, and/or latitude and longitude and/or incident location details provided by callers.
- Communicate six figure grid references to search and rescue operations team.
- Communicate references to field personnel for use in portable navigational aids.
- Communicate directional information to operations team on request.
- Perform land search and rescue response
- Establish cordons to limit size of search area.
- Use land search strategies to develop an accurate search area.
- Select land search patterns in accordance with conditions and terrain.
- Allocate taskings for resources and assets in accordance with capability.
- Apply portable navigation aids to provide live information to search coordinator, where available.
- Analyse information from portable navigation aids to determine areas searched by teams.
- Modify land search patterns using on scene intelligence.