Communication plan prevents the incident from "overwhelming the radio" and no one knows who has what to report. It typically specifies radio channels, roles, an escalation tree, and contacts.
The minimum that must work
- who leads the resolution of the incident (one name),
- who calls the police / fire brigade / EMS,
- where is the ICP and who reports to it,
- how evacuation/invacuation is instructed.
Practical meaning
How Communication plan affects a real service
The term becomes useful when it leads to a concrete procedure for a site, event or team.
When is the term resolved
Communication plan is mainly handled in practice when choosing the type of security, comparing suppliers, creating assignments or dividing roles between security, organizers and operations.
Common mistakes in practice
A common mistake is to order a general service without describing the place, time, risks, contact and result that the team is to deliver.
What to do in practice
If the term applies to your real operation, it connects to Event security. That is where we deal with the specific space, scope, responsibility and next step before deployment.
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