Introduction to M/ETHANE
Introduction to M/ETHANE
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Don't wait for other organisations before sending your first M/ETHANE message
Where a major incident is declared, this must be shared with other organisations as soon as possible to enable the development of shared situational awareness.
It is good practice to send M/ETHANE reports when attending all incidents. For those incidents that fall below the definition of a major incident, then the M is dropped and it becomes an ETHANE report.
Further M/ETHANE reports should be sent after you have spoken to other organisations and established an understanding of the incident or when the situation changes
Once you have sent your M/ETHANE report, it will be used to build a Common Operating Picture (COP).
Make sure it is based on the available information that you have and reflects the activities, requirements and risk assessments of all organisations.
The Role of M/ETHANE
You are under pressure because people need your help. You know you need to save lives and reduce harm but also realise that you can't do it on your own and will need lots of resources.
Your control room, managers and other responders need to know what you are seeing at the incident, so that they can deploy the most appropriate types and numbers of resources as a priority.
This is why sending a M/ETHANE message as early as possible is so important; it notifies others of the scale and type of incident and provides other critical information to allow them to develop a plan of how to deal with it.
Each responder should send a M/ETHANE to their organisation's control rooms to ensure they have shared situational awareness. You must never assume this has been done. If in doubt, send a M/ETHANE!
There are often lots of dangers at an incident such as this. Some are more obvious than others. An early assessment of the hazards is very important, this is done as part of the M/ETHANE message
The M/ETHANE Report
The image below shows the component parts that make up a M/ETHANE report with some prompts to help you.
You should not hesitate to declare a major incident if you are unsure that the incident in front of you is a major incident by definition. It is better for responders to scale up the initial response and then scale it down accordingly
Each responder agency should send inital M/ETHANE report to their respective control or operation room on arrival at the scene. This will begin to build shared situational awareness across responder organisations.
This will begin to build shared situational awareness across responder organisations
Think M/ETHANE!
Your own and other responder organisations need your M/ETHANE report at the earliest opportunity to start:
Your M/ETHANE report is vital in developing a bigger picture in terms of scene management
Quick Check
Keep it clear and simple
Make sure everyone understands who is doing what.
Share accurate & reliable information
Make sure that everyone understands
Agree who is the lead organistaion.
Make joint decisions
Organise resources
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