Activity 2.4
What do sop look like?
To assist you in the learning process, an example SOP entitled, Standard Operating Procedure:  Flash flooding and river floods, is included in the readings for this topic.  You should understand at this point that, whilst we will be recommending a particular format for the SOP that you will produce in your assignment, there is more than one way to achieve the aim of producing effective SOP.
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Reading 5:	Standard operating procedure:  Flash flooding and river floods

	To demonstrate the range of SOP try and obtain from an organisation in your local area a set of SOP.  These may be from an emergency service or they may be from an industry or any one of the other types of organisation mentioned in the previous section.  

Keep this and the example SOP handy whilst we proceed through the remainder of this subject.