National Incident Management System (NIMS)

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National Incident Management System(NIMS)

• Curry Mayer, Chief
• Training Branch
• California Emergency Management Agency

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Topics to be Covered

• Scope and Benefits of NIMS
• NIMS Components
• Role of the National Integration Center (NIC)
• How do You fit in

NIMS
SEMS
ICS
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Scope of NIMS

• A national approach to managing incidents,
  regardless of cause, size or complexity
• Based on best practices
• Applies to all levels of government
• Involves support from
• Private sector
• Non-governmental organizations
• Tribal governments

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Legal Basis

• NIMS
• Homeland Security Presidential Directive 5
  (HSPD-5)
• ? Management of Domestic Incidents
• ? Adoption by States, tribes, etc. condition for
  Federal preparedness assistance
• Homeland Security Presidential Directive 8
  (HSPD-8)
• ? National Preparedness

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Benefits

• Improves national incident coordination and
  cooperation between public private entities
• Provides guidance certification standards for
  all resources used in incident management
• Provides for compatibility and interoperability
  among all involved organizations
• Standardized organizational structure

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National Response Framework (NRF)

• Guide to how US conducts response to incidents
• Provides structure and mechanisms to ensure
  effective Federal support
• Builds on NIMS to align key roles and
  responsibilities
• Basic premise of NIMS and NRF is incidents are
  managed at local level (Just like SEMS)

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Elected and Appointed Officials Need to

• Understand and commit to NIMS
• Support training on NIMS
• Understand emergency management, COOP/COG,
  response capabilities
• Encourage preparedness
• Support mitigation
• Maintain awareness

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NIMS Components

• Command and Management
• Preparedness
• Resource Management
• Communications and Information Management
• Supporting Technologies
• Ongoing Management and Maintenance
• Lets see what each component includes

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Use of ICS

• Like SEMS NIMS uses ICS
• The Incident Commander commands the incidents
  using all of the same ICS guidelines
• NIMS uses Unified Command and Area Command
• Staff organization used Command and General Staff
  positions
• Plans for demobilization begin as soon as
  possible to facilitate accountability
• Incident Action Plans are utilized

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Public Information System

• Joint Information System (JIS)
• The framework for organizing, integrating and
  coordinating the delivery of public information
• Joint Information Center (JIC)
• Where the coordination of information and
  resources to support incident management can take
  place

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Preparedness

• Actions required to establish and maintain
  incident response capability
• Includes efforts to coordinate between public and
  private organizations
• Planning
• Training and Exercises
• Personnel Qualification and
• Certification
• Equipment Certification

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Planning

• Plans describe how resources will be used. Plans
  outline how to
• Set priorities
• Establish relationships and coordinate efforts
  between organizations
• Ensure support for all incident management
  activities

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Training

• Allows practitioners to
• Use concepts and principles
• Become more comfortable using NIMS ICS

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Exercises

• Can improve performance and identify need for
  corrective action
• Multidisciplinary/multijurisdictional incidents
• Interact with private, nongovernmental
  organizations
• Cover aspects of preparedness plans
• Contain mechanism for incorporating corrective
  action and lessons learned

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Credentialing

• Ensure consistent
• Training
• Licensure
• Certification standards
• Competency or proficiency

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Credentialing

• Involves evaluation and documentation of
• Certification, license or degree
• Training and experience
• Competence and proficiency

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Resource Management

• Advance Planning
• Resource Identification and Ordering
• Categorizing Resources
• Use of Agreements
• Effective Management of Resources
• Management Information Systems
• Ordering, Mobilization, Dispatching and
  Demobilization Protocols

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Resource Management (cont.)

• Identifying and Typing Resources
• Certifying and Credentialing Personnel
• Identifying Resource Requirements and
  Inventorying Resources
• Ordering and Acquiring Resources
• Mobilizing and Tracking
• Recovering Resources
• Reimbursement

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Resource Management
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Communications and Information Management

• Need for a common operating picture that is
  accessible across jurisdictions and agencies
• Common communications and data standards are
  essential
• Use of common terminology is encouraged

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Mutual Aid

• Agreements which provide services, resources, and
  facilities, when jurisdictional resources are
  inadequate
• Allow jurisdictions to obtain assistance and
  resources quickly
• Without agreements, costs might need to be
  negotiated

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Mitigation Preparedness

• Reduce loss by avoiding/lessening impact of
  disaster
• Find the best safeguard solutions
• Impedes cycle of disaster damage

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In Summary

• How might this be helpful to CERT Teams?