NET Incident Command System (ICS) Forms: Difference between revisions

== The Role of the Scribe ==

PBEM recommends that each Operations Plan anticipate the need for scribes during operations. Otherwise the responsibility of completing forms and ensuring volunteers keep proper documentation falls to rescuers; meaning, documentation may not happen at all because rescuers must focus on rescuing.   

Note that a scribe is not the same as the Documentation Unit. Volunteers from the Documentation Unit ''can'' act as scribes, but their primary responsibility is collecting and keeping documents and recording information. More information on the Documentation Unit at: [[VSF 07.02: Documentation Unit]].

Teams often include volunteers enthusiastic to serve but who do not feel physically ready to engage hands-on in search and rescue tasks such as cribbing, lifting, or other activities requiring physical exertion. Acting as the scribe for the NET is a great job for them. An ideal scribe is familiar with ICS forms and the ICS framework. However, acting as a scribe is also a task that NETs can delegate to an SUV with little just-in-time training (note that opinions differ on this point; some feel strongly that SUVs do not understand operations enough to act adequately as scribes).