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... 23 Best Practices for Developing and Sustaining TIRPs Whether TIRPs are developed in a traditional way by an individual or committee, with the help of the TIRP tool, by adapting a plan from another airport, or by a consultant, the same basic concerns and areas of emphasis are essential for the plans to be effective, practicable, accepted, and followed. Foremost among these concerns is the role of leadership and the extent to which stakeholders are involved in the planning process.
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... 24 Airport Terminal Incident Response Planning cognitive difficulties, and children need to be considered. Ideally, people from these groups would be consulted about their requirements.
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... Best Practices for Developing and Sustaining TIRPs 25 structure. The system allows for a single incident commander or for a unified command and includes effective ways to manage continuity of the response during shift changes.
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... 26 Airport Terminal Incident Response Planning To Individuals Within the Terminal The primary forms of communication within a terminal during an evacuation or shelter-in-place situation will be the public announcement system (loudspeakers) , video status boards (arrivals and departures boards, gate signs, electronic signage)
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... Best Practices for Developing and Sustaining TIRPs 27 familiar with these CBP plans and protocols. Conversely, local CBP officials need to be familiar with the airport's TIRP.
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... 28 Airport Terminal Incident Response Planning Airport emergency plan and other emergency response contingency plan training should cover plan objectives, key elements, participants and their roles, and mutual aid agreements. Basic plan training should be refined and included in new employee orientation.
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... Best Practices for Developing and Sustaining TIRPs 29 This precedent should allow TIRP and other contingency plan exercises to qualify under this requirement. It is essential that a full-scale exercise test the total response capability of an airport's mutual aid agreements.
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... 30 Airport Terminal Incident Response Planning Figure 5. Adaptive management (California Department of Fish and Game, n.d.)

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