e-BIB. DIGITAL INCIDENT PLANNING AND SCENARIOS
Planned situations, such as events, soccer matches, demonstrations and state visits, require intensive advance preparation.
In metropolyNEO e-bib, users can plan with the same tools and user interfaces as are used during the situation itself, without any media disruption. User-defined keyword indexing and search functions allow e-bibplanning to be retrieved directly in the e-lan module and make it immediately available for further processing, even in the case of spontaneous incidents!
The e-bib incident template library consists of event, object and area-related incident templates, each of which may contain multiple planning modules:
• An organization chart, containing operation sections, responsible persons and contacts/availability (including the full response team composition), guidelines, required resources and action forces (workforce requirements) and prepared ‘tally counters’ for injured/involved parties etc.
• Incident-related objects and documents
• A prepared situation map e.g. with route, cordon points/restricted areas or other zones, operation section locations, tactical organization etc.
• Situation reports/top info and report entries e.g. with information about the situation or an object
• Catalogs of measures/checklists
• General documents such as regulations
Prepared notifications and tasks to be edited or forwarded support internal communication as well as the external transfer of information.
Incident templates can be created interactively or derived from past incidents/situations. The familiar time machine from e-lan can be used to select the time of the situation that is to be used for the template.
e-bib is required only for creation and maintenance of the incident templates. For usage, the incident templates are directly integrated into the e-lan module, from where they can be retrieved and applied intuitively for the respective events. There is naturally an authorization model with releases for the incident templates as well as a password protection facility.
The incident template library can also be used for simulations and exercises: The incident templates can build on each other, meaning that a complete sequence of exercises can be planned, even including ‘off-shoots’ and variants to allow the exercises to be designed around participant experience, for example. As in a genuine crisis situation, participants will be confronted with events step by step, to which they have to respond and make decisions.
