About Decisions: Rationale

Before the WFDSS Decision Document can be sent for Review/Approval, an Incident Rationale must be developed. Decision Rationale should be primarily drafted by the decision Approver, but may require the Author to provide direction, support, and/or resources. Rationale accomplishes three things, it:

• Documents why a specific course of action was chosen,
• Records the risk decision dialog that has occurred among agency administrators and incident managers, and
• Provides the opportunity to tell the "story" of the incident.

Rationale can only be entered using a decision editor, which you can access from the Decisions tab once a pending decision has been created. Supporting text, images, and other information can be added to help relate incident events, if necessary.

 

In This Section Decision Content Tree

See Also About the Decision Content Tree About Decisions: Course of Action (COA) About Decisions: Objectives and Requirements About the Text Editor

Reference Field Descriptions Glossary Resources Spatial Data Reference Landscape Data Source Reference Relative Risk Reference Organization Assessment Reference Fire Behavior Reference About the WFDSS Decision Editors