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Crisis management
Command post
PC
In French : Poste de commandement
The physical or virtual location from which response is directed and coordinated. It must have communication means independent of the everyday information system.
Source : ISO 22320:2018
Related terms
Crisis management team
A mandated group responsible for managing a crisis: assessing the situation, deciding, allocating resources and communicating. It arbitrates; it does not execute.
Common operating picture
A shared, continuously updated representation of the situation that lets all responders decide from the same factual basis.