Team Leaders Meetings

This is a network of experienced USAR practitioners who respond to collapsed structure incidents domestically and internationally and whose input, advice and experience serve to improve the operational capabilities of international USAR response. The INSARAG Secretariat convenes an annual USAR Team Leaders’ Meeting for all registered international USAR Team Leaders. These meetings provide a forum to discuss technical issues relating to training and best practice based on lessons learned from previous USAR operations and exercises.

Any INSARAG member countries interested in hosting the annual meeting of the international USAR Team Leaders is welcomed. The requests for this should be sent to the INSARAG Secretariat.

The reports of the INSARAG Team Leaders Meetings can be found here:

2024

  • Chairman’s Summary (Brazil)
  • Presentations- https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pK20ZUxffdXd6IV9BaSdIVYsJfVZrKW_?usp=sharing

Video Day 1:

Video Day 2:

Video Day 3:

2023 

This year, the TLs meeting took place in Singapore at the Civil Defence Academy (CDA), the premier training institution of the Singapore Civil Defence Force, from 28 February to 2 March 2023.

  • Team Leaders Chairman’s Summary 2023
  • Agenda 
  • Participants List
  • Presentations
    – Day 1 Morning 
    – Day 1 Afternoon
  • Breakout Discussions
    – Day 2 – Padlets
    – Day 3
  • First Responders Package (For Review)
  • Medical Working Group Meeting: Chairman Summary | Participants

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