Terminology

What does CSCATTT stand for?

• Command
• Safety
• Communication
• Assessment
• Triage
• Treatment
• Transport

METHANE

METHANE ensures an early declaration of a major incident, which is easily understood and transmitted across all emergency services and wider responders. It also provides a consistent exchange of information between emergency organisations in the initial stages of a multi-agency major or complex incident. In the initial stages of an incident the METHANE mnemonics should be used when passing information between emergency responders and control rooms. In constructing a METHANE message, the first responders will need to decide whether the situation should be declared a major incident.

For incidents falling below the major incident threshold, METHANE becomes an ETHANE message. When using the Joint Decision Model (JDM) there should be a period of consideration for the ‘M’ (representing major incident) by responders, to establish whether a developing incident falls within the major incident threshold.

Joint Emergency Interoperability Service Programme (JESIP)

Public inquiries and inquests from numerous major incidents have identified that emergency services should have worked better together and displayed greater cooperation and coordination, i.e. incorporate interoperability. Launched in 2013, the JESIP (now referred to as the Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Principles) established principles for joint working via the Joint Doctrine: The Interoperability Framework (2013).

To introduce the doctrine and principles to emergency organisations, an extensive programme of training for commanders from the three emergency services has been delivered and supplemented by training resources for control room staff and partner agencies. The trust, along with other UK ambulance trusts, police, and fire and rescue services, has been involved in delivering and receiving this training and is committed to embedding its principles in the way we respond to emergencies.