Incident Action Plan Analysis

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An incident action plan (IAP) formally documents incident goals, operational period objectives, and the response strategy defined by incident command during response planning (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), 2012). Within the IAP are general tactics used to achieve goals and objects used to advance the overall mission, while also providing critical event and response updates (HHS, 2012). Another function of the IAP is it enables the dissemination of important information to all assets involved in a response (HHS, 2012). Unlike and emergency operations plan (EOP), which covers emergency response in a general sense, an IAP is related to a specific event and is dynamic to the circumstances (Maniscalco & Christen, 2011).