Which of the following is not a protocol for On-Scene Operations.

The first task confronting any disaster response is determining the ____ of the incident and the context of the victim recovery scene.

Once an incident occurs, initial reports and information is accurate, and reliable. Scene formation and disturbance information shall be collected through direct monitoring by a medico legal representative embedded by the scene.

Verify that the reported location of the disaster incident is indeed within the legal boundaries of the medico-legal's authority jurisdiction. If the incident scene involves other's jurisdiction, they must be contacted immediately.

Identify a point of contact within the agency that has jurisdiction over the scene to coordinate the initial reconnaissance survey.

Is needed in order to rapidly evaluate the scene's general size , boundaries, orientation, and complexity.

Assist with the development of an appropriate search and recovery strategy, as well as guide operation planning efforts and resource coordination.

Integrating the use of overhead imagery (e.g. aerial photography, satellite images) with data collected on the ground, can provide one of the most rapid, complete, and initial evaluations of the incident area as a whole and the spatial distribution of the victim recovery scene across landscape.

The medico-legal authority should conduct a risk assessment in conjunction with life-safety and law enforcement representatives at the start of any intrusive search, detection, recording or collection operations.

This will serve to identify any potential health and safety issues for the search and recovery team, and will lead to discussion of how to mitigate these issues.

It is also useful for the medico legal authority to begin recording the recovery scene's formation and disturbance processes as soon as possible (e.g. the manner and extent to which the victims' remains have been affected post incident by first responders assisting the living)

Non-transportable, contextual data will be lost unless it is documented by the medico legal authority at or near the time it receives access to the scene.

an organizational system where instructions are passed from one person to another

Establish medico-legal jurisdiction over the fatality management operation. The legal authority for conducting disaster victim recovery and identification besides solely with the medico-legal authority in the jurisdiction where the disaster incident occured.

Articulate roles and responsibilities. Incidents are multi-agency responses requiring a collaborative effort between local, state and federal agencies in addition to non governmental organizations (NGO) , tribal entities and private industries.

The established medico-legal authority is responsible for fatality management operations following a mass fatality incident. Police officers should articulate their roles and responsibilities in a mass fatality incident.

The following are the Chain of Command of MFI: Foundational Principles except:

shall develop strategies to address scene operations

shall develop strategies to address disaster morgue operations

shall develop strategies with other local agencies to address family engagement qnd victim information center (VIC) operations

shall develop strategies to address disaster victim identification

shall develop strategies to address storage of remains and personal effects

shall develop strategies to address communication of families and release of remains and personal effects

shall develop strategies to address logistics support for all operations (scene, morgue, VIC)

shall develop strategies to address quality assurance

shall develop strategies to address demobilizing operations

establishing and maintaining chain of custody verifies the integrity of the evidence

Staging Areas are the location on where resources including equipment and crews, report until they are assigned. It is intended as a holding place for spontaneous volunteers and response/recovery resources that have been mobilized.

Provides initial scene security

When is forensic archaeological excavations required

a perimeter around the immediate disaster scene, and debris field accessible only to those processing the scene

should be created around the disaster scene to prevent access to the media and public

______ overrides all concern

For the preliminary evaluation of the scene, the first responders are expected to: except

Search and Recovery Operations. All procedures are required to analyze the site to determine

Locate and flag human remains or other evidence at the scene

Identify and describe human remains and personal effects. Assign unique identifier

Survey the location of evidence or cluster of commingled evidence

the following are process of thr Processing Team except:

a tool used to find the latitude, longitude of your current location including your address, zip code, state, and latlong

may need to be three dimensional

are frequently used in traffic accident investigations to collect data for reconstruction specialists

involves search and rescue parties, medico-legal investigation, (i.e. post mortems), personal effects operation, family assistance/counselling, and media operations

carry out logistics support, provide site security, and responder protection (in terms of health and safety , mental well being, and from the media)

The focus of the incident is the treatment of the dead, which must be respectful and ethical. Remains must be covered from public view.

The following are complicating circumstances of MFI, except.

nuclear incidents, chemical spills, air crashes, transportation accidents, collapse of structures and heavy equipment.

Epidemics, contaminated water, displaced remains from their graves caused by flooding, food contaminations

Calamities

man-made

can be small, localized, or can cover large areas. Includes aircraft accidents, building collapses, ship accidents, and train accidents.

can result in large number of casualties spread over a large geographic area and often require specific search and recovery operations

usually investigated months, or years after the event, usually require grave excavation

Who is in charge of MFI in the Philippines

A community's ability to respond to and recover from a MFI is dependent not only on how quickly and thoroughly a comprehensive plan is implemented, but how successful the response addresses the: except

The following are the Goals in Responding to MFI, except

Primordial Scope of MFI Response

the search and rescue efforts to locate bodies and body parts, marking and documenting the location of found remains, and eventually transporting the remains to either decontamination or the site morgue for examination as appropriate.

the "cleaning" of either chemically or biologically contaminated remains to make them safe for further handling examination

The coroner is notified as to yhe type of incident, the location, an estimate to the number of fatalities, the condition of the bodies, the demographics of those killed, and the ongoing response action (firefighting, ambulance operations)

The coroner goes to the site. He/She must determine whether the incident is stabilized; if not when will it be, the number of fatalities, the condition of the bodies, and whether any of the bodies were moved.

Things the coroner needs to consider are should a temporary morgue be established and where, what additional resources will be required; what other response actions will be needed by other agencies.

During this period any life saving actions continue, search and recovery of the deceased begins, the morgue is established, and remains begins to arrive.

Families will start to gather, so a family assistance center will be established.

Other outside agencies will arrive and all response staff will be briefed.

All logistical support operations will be established.

At this stage the response is coordinated in full swing. Search and recovery of the deceased is well underway, media and family briefings are taking place.

Family members will be asked to fill out detailed questionnaires concerning the missing including information regarding their description, details of their doctors, dentists or others who might possess medical documents.

Identification records will have arrived, and medico-legal autopsies begins.

Fatalities are beginning to be identified, records are produced for all human remains, and personal effects operations are established.

Any positive identification will have their family notified and the deceased will be released.

Things now begin to wind down

The coroner must complete a full report of the incident

A management system designed to enable effective and efficient domestic incident management by integrating a combination of facilities, equipment, personnel, procedures, and communications operating within a common organizational structure.

Fatality management are split into distinct roles except

Ultimately what is desired. Based on finger/footprints, DNA, dentition, or other medical records.

Based on associated personal effects or visual recognition such as race, age, sex, and or/stature

by ruling out all other possibilities, a person is identified

Remains are first passed to the ________ for full documentation

accomodates all scene materials including site maps, text, photographs, video and scanned documents.b

should include a tracking capability through systematic coding of cases for the maintenance of chain of custody for all evidence related to identification efforts and associated data

able to accomodate the exchange, storage, and protection of post mortem photographs, radiographs, fingerprints, dental, and DNA data.

The process of identifying victims of major disasters such as terrorist attacks and earthquakes is possible by visual recognition. Comparison of fingerprints ,dental records, or DNA, samples with one stored in data bases or taken from victims' personal effects are often required to obtain a conclusive identification.

INTERPOL's DVI activities are supported by a working group made up of forensic scientists and police expert who meet once a year to discuss improvements to DVI procedures and standards. It published the guide to DVI which is the unique locally accepted standard for DVI.

The Guide to DVI was first produced in 1984. It is updated every 5 years.

DVI policies and guidelines and training programs have been produced in the following areas except:

Depending on the incident and where it happened, it can take days or even weeks for all the victims and their property to be recovered.

The human remains are examined by specialists to detect forensic evidence.

Dental and medical records, fingerprints and DNA are recovered from victims homes or provided by family members.

Once the AM and PM data is collected, a team of specialists compares and reconciles the two sets of information to identify the victims.

an established multi phase crisis intervention process that helps individuals to work through their thoughts, reactions, and symptoms, followed by training in coping techniques.

The reality of a critical incident that has happened normally starts to dawn on the victim within ______ of the incident

To create a safe environment in which the individual or group can be supported and guided by trained debriefers and feel free to ventilate their feelings.

to create a setting in which the traumatized person can realize that he/she is still normal. The abnormality of a critical incident is often confused with the abnormality within the victim.

The cognitive affective steucture has a tremendous advantage to the victim because he/she moves from the less-emotional thoughts to the emotional and then, back to less emotional. This helps the victim to relax and feel safe after the strain of showing emotions.

Redefinition gives the opportunity to verbalize the trauma. It is not just ventilating emotions, but also gives the opportunity to verbally reconstruct and describe the event, thus having therapeutic deadline.

treatment should be practical and simple

traumatized individuals should be treated in the proximity of the place where the critical incident occured

treatment takes place as soon after the incident as possible

physical and psychological needs should be identified and dealt with as soon as possiblr after the incident in order to prevent the traumatic incident to get worse