Understanding Resource Management

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Understanding Resource Management

• 2006
• Homeland Security Summit

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What is a resource?

• Equipment
• Time
• Training
• Facilities
• Personnel
• Capacity
• Utility
• Capability
• Care
• Intelligence
• Information
• Funding streams
• Animals
• Food and Water
• Teams
• Supplies

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• An efficient and effective resource must be
• Flexible and scalable to support any incident
• Adaptable to real-time changes in incident size
  and cause
• Able to span the life of the incident (be
  recalled and reassigned)

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• HSPD-5 NIMS
• Steps for improved coordination in response to
  incidents.
• HSPD-8 NRP
• Describes the way Federal departments and
  agencies will prepare and how DHS will coordinate
  with all government entities to develop a
  National Preparedness Goal.

Tiered Response Strategy
Resources
Federal Response
State Aid
Regional / Mutual Response Aid
Local Response Municipal and County
Minimal Low Medium
High Catastrophic
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• NIMS Components
• Command and Management
• Preparedness
• Resource Management
• Communications and Information Management
• Supporting Technologies
• Ongoing Management and Maintenance
• Defined by NIMS, resource management involves
  coordinating and overseeing the application of
  tools, processes, and systems that provide
  incident managers with timely and appropriate
  resources during an incident.
• The NIMS concept establishes standardized
  mechanisms and processes to describe, inventory,
  mobilize, dispatch, track and recover resources
  over the life cycle of an incident.

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Resource Command and Coordination

• In NIMS, resource command is the process of
  directing and controlling resources to address
  the needs of an incident. This is overseen by
  the on-scene Incident Commander.
• Resource coordination is the process of ensuring
  that the requesting organization receives the
  resources and support they need when they need
  them. This occurs at the coordination entities
  - 911 Centers, EOCs, Joint Field Offices,
  Regional Resource Coordination Centers.
• Therefore
• These entities must establish a uniform Resource
  Management System to provide prompt and capable
  resources to meet the needs of the Incident
  Commander.

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• Concepts of an effective Resource Management
  System
• Utilizing a uniform method of identifying,
  acquiring, allocating, and tracking resources
• Utilizing Mutual Aid agreements
• Utilizing a standardized classification of kinds
  and types or resources
• Utilizing a credentialing system
• Coordinating with other operation centers
• Including resources contributed by private sector
  and NGOs.

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Resource Management System

• Identifying and Typing Resources
• Resource Typing entails categorizing by
  capability the resources that incident managers
  commonly request, deploy, and employ.
• The uniform resource typing process organizes
  resources by
• Category a function in which the resource would
  be most useful
• Kind broad classes that characterizes
• Components a part of the resource
• Metrics measurable standards
• Type level of capability
• FEMAs 121 Resource Typing Definitions
• Document containing 121 resources that have been
  most commonly requested to support incident
  operations. The list is a living document it
  will continuously be updated.

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• 8 Disciplines make up the list of 121 resources
• Health and Medical
• Law Enforcement
• Public Works
• Animal Health
• Emergency Management
• Emergency Medical Services
• Fire/HazMat
• Search and Rescue

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Resource types are determined based on their
criteria matched with FEMAs criteria.
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Managing Resources Cont

• Credentialing Personnel Resources
• Personnel credentialing entails authoritatively
  attesting that individuals meet professional
  standards for the training, experience, and
  performance required for incident-management
  functions.
• Credentialing helps determine and ensure that an
  emergency responder is capable of performing
  assigned critical tasks and capabilities based on
  the level of their..
• 1. Training
• 2. Education
• 3. Experience
• 4. Physical and medical fitness
• 5. Certification
• 6. Licensing
• Credentialing makes it important for first
  responders to complete their required NIMS/ICS
  courses enables them to perform tasks across
  jurisdictional boundaries when called upon.
• Certifications Qualifications Credentials

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Credentialing Personnel Resources cont..

• Education
• Formal instruction based on a curriculum that
  prepares an individual with the core knowledge
  and skill for entry into a discipline and for
  performing a job function
• Training
• Instruction and/or activities that enhance an
  individuals core knowledge, increase a skill set
  and proficiency, and strengthen and augment
  abilities
• Experience
• Time required functioning in a job title for an
  individual to attain proficiency in applying
  knowledge, skills, and abilities
• Physical/ Medical Fitness
• Physical and medical considerations that when
  applied, help to ensure safe performance in risky
  environments
• Certification
• Designation granted by Authority Having
  Jurisdiction (AHJ) that an individual has met
  requirements and achieved specific knowledge,
  skills, and abilities
• Licensing
• Legal designation granted by AHJ that an
  individual has met the necessary legal
  requirements to function in a job title

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Designing a National Emergency Responder
Credentialing System EMS Working Group.
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Managing Resources Cont

• Inventorying Resources
• Preparedness organizations entering resources
  available for deployment into a resource tracking
  system maintained at all levels.
• Key Information
• 1. Resource Type based on the National Typing
  Standards
• 2. Resource owner
• 3. Location of the resource (address or
  geo-located)
• 4. Quantities available
• 5. Period of deployment
• 6. Cost of resource
• Incident Management Software to house this
  information must be used statewide to allow all
  jurisdictions and agencies to view resource
  request information via state mutual aid
  agreements.

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• Ordering and Acquiring Resources
• - resources should be
• pre positioned so that they are
• more readily available to
• Incident Command.

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Managing Resources Cont

• Mobilizing Resources
• Mobilization guidelines must include
• A. Date, Time, Place of departure
• B. Mode of Transportation to the incident
• C. Estimated date and time of arrival
• D. Reporting location (contact person)
• E. anticipated incident assignment
• F. Anticipated duration of deployment
• G. Resource Order Number
• H. Incident number
• I. Applicable costs and funding codes.
• Resources must be formally checked in when they
  arrive on scene this will validate the order
  requirement and notify back through the system.
• Plans must be flexible to account for mobile and
  immobile (fixed) resources Facilities, EOCs,
  shelters, etc.

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Managing Resources Cont

• Tracking and Reporting Resources
• Tracking Reporting
• Helps keeps track of where resources are located
  and helps staff prepare additional quantities of
  a resource if the deployed resource is at its
  peak use.
• - It enables the coordination of movement of
  personnel, equipment and supplies.

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Managing Resources Cont

• Recovering Resources
• Non-expendable
• Resources that are fully accounted for at the
  incident site and then returned to the unit that
  issued them. The issuing unit then restores the
  resources to fully functional capability and
  readies them for the next mobilization.
• - Adequate rest and recuperation time must be
  provided for human resources, such as Incident
  Management Teams.
• - Mobilization guides provide the appropriate
  rest and recuperation time guidelines.
• Expendable
• These are fully accounted for. Restocking
  occurs at the point from which a resource was
  issued and the organization using the resource
  bears the cost of it as authorized in preplanned
  financial agreements.

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Statewide Initiatives

• Credentialing Personnel
• Emergency Response Personnel at all levels are
  taking the following initiatives to qualify them
  to be dispatched and assist in multi-jurisdictiona
  l emergencies
• Completing NIMS / ICS courses and other
  classes.
• IS-700, IS-800, ICS-100, ICS-200, G300 G400.
• Damage Assessment, Public Assistance, Debris
  Management
• Participate in multi-agency and
  multi-jurisdictional exercises.
• Ardent Sentry Palisades, Cook, FERMI 2 Super
  Bowl, All Star Game, county-wide,
• Train in equipment operations and maintenance.
• ETEAM (Incident Management Software), 800 MHz
  Radios, PPE,
• EOC Operations
• Planning, Logistics, Finance, and Operations
  duties,
• Experience
• Mutual Aid deployment
• Licensing
• CDL, Boating operators, Aircrafts, heavy
  equipment,

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Credentialing Personnel

• Positions to be credentialed..
• EMS 19 Positions
• Search and Rescue 32 Positions
• Incident Management 8 Positions
• Public Works 19 Positions
• Fire/Hazmat 22 Positions

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• Identifying
• Typing Resources
• FEMAs 121 Resource
• Typing Definitions
• Non-typed resources

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Inventory Resources

• Critical Incident Management Software
• ETEAM

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Ordering Acquiring Resources

• Established SEOC Operations Plan/Guidelines
• MEMAC EMAC requests
• ETEAM

Tracking Reporting RecoveringETEAM
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What your agency can do?

• 1. Use FEMAs 121 Resource Definition List and
  identify your resource types based on the
  criteria indicated in the list. Provide
  resource details to county coordinator to input
  into ETEAM system for an available resource to
  the area.
• 2. Train personnel in appropriate courses to
  earn credentials and in equipment operations.
• 3. Develop resource management plans
• Checklist and Resource list available at
• www.michigan.gov/msp
• Specialized Divisions
• EMHSD
• Inside EMHSD
• Resource Materials
• Resource Typing

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Questions

• Jim Reardon
• reardonj_at_michigan.gov
• 517-333-5017
• Michigan State Police
• Emergency Management and Homeland Security
  Division
• NIMS Implementation
• www.michigan.gov/msp