8. Operational support plan

The main utility of an operational support plan is assess the resources at hand for the response, which are essentially all the actors that would play a hand in the response strategy. In our contingency plan, the main contributing stakeholder would be the disaster management authority (DMA) in the Trondheim municipality that would serve as coordinators and expert for the implementation of the different phases of the contingency plan.

DMA would be in charge of different tasks at different levels, that starts with being the institutional branch of the contingency team and thereby being in charge of mapping and other warning system in addition to the implementation of national strategies and policies by following the chain of command. They would be the ones to implement any policy changes and requirement, organize workshop and campaigns that have as a goal building up the resilience of local businesses and train staff in emergency procedures for this type of crisis.

In addition to the DMA, other stakeholders are in action as both the emergency services (firefighters and EMTs) and the police department would benefit from training in this specific scenario and initiate a mapping strategy to determine safe routes, gathering points and shelters.

Furthermore, some businesses and private entities are to be involved in the process in the form of either material contribution or a financial one, and these include but are not limited to the hotels in and around the area that could provide spaces for temporary shelter, triage areas and food. Businesses that could contribute in man power by training their employees to face flood situations.

On the long term, other actors would be at play by providing logistical expertise of the likes of NTNU, which could contribute to the assessment phase and the rebuilt phase by studying the crisis and provide insight on how to best tackle future situations.