Operational Period Briefing is usually called simply Operational Briefing or Shift Briefing and is usually held at the beginning of any new Operational Period to present the Incident Action Plan to the supervisors, who can then gather their own briefings with their subbordinaties.
What is Incident Action Plan?
Operational Period Briefing is the event conducted in order to present Incident Action Plan which is, in turn, the correct plan for management that describes what to do when an incident occurs in order to solve the problem as soon as possible.
What is briefing?
A briefing is an analogue of a press conference, differing from it in that it usually focuses on a single issue, news, event, and lasts no more than half an hour. Briefing is a short operational event during which the officials speaking to the press, representatives of state or commercial structures give the news, state their attitude and state their position on a certain issue. Briefing is usually organized promptly in cases of emergencies – terrorist attacks, accidents, mass poisonings, disruptions in the work of transport, communications, and so on, to explain to the extent possible what happened, its causes, to prevent panic, possible mistakes, distortions of facts and exaggerations in the mass media. The briefing is also the most convenient format for the delivery of sensational information, designed to obtain the effect of surprise, because in this way the necessary information message or ideological thesis, veiled by sensational news, will be uncritically perceived by the audience, which is under the influence of strong emotions. A briefing can also be a working meeting with invited media representatives in government, companies or public organizations.
Briefings are one-sided, informative, and illustrated by concrete facts. If a briefing is held when there is an urgent need to inform the media about a significant issue, the organizers may limit themselves to reporting without engaging in a dialogue with the press. Sometimes a briefing may be entirely devoted to answering blitz questions from journalists, since there is no presentation part. Before the communication with the press, one or two speakers may make a short speech of no more than ten or fifteen minutes. Drinks and sandwiches are usually not served during the briefing, and sometimes the press representatives participating in the briefing are not even seated at the tables - the whole event is held standing up.
